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Via FOX News
Nothing says America quite like smoking a pork butt and flying Old Glory.
“The sport of professional barbecue is extremely American and family oriented,” said pitmaster Jeff Petkevicius.
So you can imagine Jeff’s extreme displeasure when organizers of an Alabama barbecue competition ordered him – along with other competitors to take down the American flags hanging from their barbecue trailers.
It happened Feb. 27th at the Sam’s Club National BBQ Competition in Daphne, Ala., sponsored by the Kansas City Barbecue Society.
Jeff is the founder of “Give it to God” competition barbecue — a professional barbecue team that smokes meat and shares the love of Jesus. Both are noble missions.
Last Friday Jeff rolled into town with his barbecue trailer and promptly hoisted Old Glory. Not too long after, one of the organizers of the event told Jeff to take down the flag.
“There were six or eight of us that had flags flying,” he told me. “He went to each camp and told them to take the flag down and everybody did.” […]
So Jeff had a change of heart and decided to raise Old Glory – as an act of defiance.
“It was a matter of saying there are things more important (than a barbecue competition),” he said. “If they want to kick me out – I’ll leave.”
Jeff was not kicked out and he was not asked to take down the flag. As a matter of fact – after he re-raised the flag another competitor followed suit.
So why were the patriotic pitmasters told to take down the flags?
Jeff said they were told by event organizers that the flags violated a city ordinance in Daphne. But that allegation turned out to be false.
“No one from the city advised or asked anyone to take down flags of any type,” Mayor Dane Haygood told me. “”We proudly and boldly display American flags and we encourage everyone in the community to do the same.”