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Anita Baker was criticized for her performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Game 4 of the 2010 NBA Finals. [38] At a December 5, 2010 NFL game between the Denver Broncos and the Kansas City Chiefs, the Eli Young Band botched the lyrics at the beginning of the third line of the song and was met with boos. They started over, but skipped from ...
The following Super Bowls featured other patriotic performances besides the national anthem. Since 2009, "America the Beautiful" is sung before the national anthem. [31] Pledge of Allegiance. 1969: Apollo 8 crew [32] 1970: Apollo 12 crew [33] 1973: Apollo 17 crew [34] "America the Beautiful" 1974: Charley Pride; 1977: Vikki Carr (in place of ...
After two games in Los Angeles, the series shifts to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx for Games 3 and 4. For a rundown of the best national anthem performances in World Series history, keep scrolling ...
The Best National Anthem in 40 Years of Super Bowl History. [50] #2 Ranked second on the list, writing "Whitney Houston had a memorable rendition before Super Bowl XXV while the country was at war with Iraq during Desert Storm," following The US Air Force Academy Chorale's performance of the national anthem at Super Bowl VI. August 11, 2009 Blender
Listen, "The Star-Spangled Banner" is a hard song to sing, and doing so in front of 100 million people requires an admirable amount of courage. But not everybody did it as well as others.
Reba McEntire, Post Malone and Andra Day have been named the pregame entertainment for the 2024 Super Bowl, with McEntire singing the national anthem.
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the composer of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", sings it for the first time. The anthem is one of the earliest to be adopted by a modern state, in 1795. Most nation states have an anthem, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. A song or hymn can become a national anthem under ...
The National Football League will probably have more players than ever kneeling for the national anthem in 2020. Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick first began kneeling for ...