OK this might get some folks riled up, and I'm sorry about that. I missed the beginning of the Super Bowl last night, and I'm glad I did, because my blood pressure has been rising ever since.

At what point does the national anthem become a gimmick to increase your record sales or practice your "artistic range"? Christina Aguilera's warbling, moaning, pseudo funky, and royally screwed up rendition last night made my skin crawl. What happened to having a band play the nation anthem while the spectators render the appropriate honors, do we "have" to be entertained? And its not just at the Super Bowl, its at every major sporting event, the next opportunity to mangle the song comes in just 13 days at the Daytona 500.

Could we show some respect to the national anthem and maybe lose the showboating. There I've said my piece, take it for what you will.

 

Agreed. Laura Bush just smiled, knowing she butchered. Just grinned, bared it. That was a disgrace.

 

Nothing new. Truthfully if you asked alot of people to sing the National Anthem I'm sure there would be lots of flubbing of words.

 

And she had line 5 wrong, per the radio here this morning.

My motto, If ya can't do it right!!! Shut the H up!

 

National Anthem sucked bad. Half time sucked even worse.

 

I'm Afeared at the direction our fine country is heading What would the Founding Fathers say??

 

True and the commercials weren't that good either.

 

It had a happy ending If you were rooting for Green Bay.

 

Agree with ya 843de, some things just need to be left alone! I can't understand half of what they say anymore, next year they will be rappin it, anyone got Eminems #. lol

 

Yeah, it's sad the "traditional" method is gone. But that's life and nothing you can do about it. Think of Roseanne at the World Series......or MANY Years AGO......Robert Goulet, who had to hum the verse, because he forgot the words.

By the way, I thought Ray Charles version (which would be considered soulful) of the National Anthem was the best....from my recollection.

Oh, and from many posts on the web.......half time was an absolute failure.