National Anthem- NFL Kickoff

Youtube ^ | 9/5/2013 | NBC

[SMCC1]

Posting for two reasons... 1. Beautifully done...no stylizations or runs. (also, yeah I watched some of The Voice this year and knew this kid would win) and 2. Anyone else notice some of the players not exactly being respectful as the anthem was being sung, i.e. Ravens players jumping around on the sideline, no hands over heart.

[dfwgator]

NFL = National Felons League

[BenLurkin]

The Dirty Birds.

There were more Bronco players with their hands over hearts.

[eyedigress]

I thought Manning already beat the dogsnot out of Baltimore yesterday?

[1rudeboy]

That was terrible. Overall, flat . . . missed a few notes by about half of a key, and the tempo indicates little formal training.

[dfwgator]

This just in....Payton Manning just threw another TD.

[1rudeboy]

And if anyone thinks I'm talking smack, the following is a decent standard to use as a judge. I fully understand the difference between an amateur and a professional . . . this is a professional.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIO9DLe_-rY

[SMCC1]

Heh. Alright, guess I like “terrible” singing. Different strokes.

[ConorMacNessa]

A good rendition - our National Anthem is not easy to sing a capella. It's most gratifying to see it sung without the gyrations, melismas, and other vocal pyrotechnics often employed these days.

It's our National Anthem. It should be rendered respectfully and fervently without a lot of self-serving and self-aggrandizing ornamentation.

Thanks very much to this young lady for her rendition. Given the current climate, I'm not at all sure that it will be siug for long in the future. At least not in public.

It will always be sung by me and mine and by like-minded Americans.

God Bless America!

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[SMCC1]

That’s my favorite version as well. I still think that kid was better than about 95% of the pop/country stars they usually have singing. But like I said, whatever. Different strokes.

[eyedigress]

LOL! If so he just put a few big ones on the bench, Y.A. being one of them.

[1rudeboy]

Heh. Alright, guess I like “terrible” singing.

No need to use quotation marks. She butchered it.

[dfwgator]

I still say the best rendition I’ve ever heard was Tom Sullivan’s at SB X.

[1rudeboy]

And hey, Cornelison has bad days too . . . maybe this girl was just “off” that day. It happens.

[SMCC1]

Ok, you’re “right.”

[1rudeboy]

Is she your daughter? You’re acting as though she is, lol.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Awe, Jeeze! Not Da Bears! ;) Did Jay Cutler cry? *SMIRK*

Nice singing, though! :)

[Baynative]

"Anyone else notice some of the players not exactly being respectful as the anthem was being sung, i.e. Ravens players jumping around on the sideline, no hands over heart."

That's standard fare for pro team sports in general - and part of why I no longer watch any of them.

[DYngbld]

The young lady that sang it for the NASCAR race tonight did a remarkable job as well.

[dfwgator]

Wish they could be more like these guys.

"I'm listening to the #@^&#@ song!"