Because as we approach a summer of unprecedented sporting pomp and pageantry, football's powers-that-be have committed another act of treason against one of the nation's greatest treasures and traditions.

This little act was to cost them dearly later on, as it was interpreted as an act of treason.

No one was ever prosecuted in relation to this act of treason.

The article allows for the enacting of laws to prohibit acts of treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the government or theft of state secrets.

They served to identify the specific acts of treason of the accused, whose identities were kept secret until the very last moment.