Flag is backwards

[dan]

bumb for Fish

[Adrianvs]

Perhaps I'm too much of a medievalist, but I consider the banner properties of the flag as essential as the design. While I respect the patch as a representation of a flag, I do not consider it as such. Historical flags have been very simple, at times a banner of only one color. Both European royalty and the papacy have used flags of white before it became a symbol of peace or surrender. The cross of Saint George, which forms the flag of England, has been seen in other items (surcoats) but they are not flags. Likewise, the tricolour of France forms banners, sashes, ribbons, and bunting, but they aren't flags.

 

Given this, I don't think that all the rules that apply to flags apply to patches (or pins for that matter). They should be respected, of course, but specifics like touching the ground in football games aren't really issues. Not that the flag code shouldn't address them, of course...