Declaration of independence read before super bowl!

Youtube ^ | 2/6/2011

[bigtoona]

Colin Powell is in it but try to get past that and its good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctKRPq2cPDQ

[Texas Eagle]

It’s too bad Christina Aguilera didn’t read The Star-Spangled Banner before The Super Bowl.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

“Colin Powell is in it but try to get past that and its good.”

Ha. Yeah.

[deks]

Yes, they read the entire document...it was great. I wonder who made it happen - Fox network?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctKRPq2cPDQ

[eyedigress]

I cringed quite a bit watching that. Who the hell picks these idiots to perform anyway?

[SouthTexas]

That was good, but... There was still time to read at least the Bill of Rights before the obliterated anthem.

[ReverendJames]

They named all the people speaking but somehow I missed the old guy in the chair with all the Marines around him. Who was he?

[Texas Eagle]

I don't know but I hate it when the singer decides to make it his or her own.

Just sing the damn song the way it's supposed to be sung!

[Clarksville]

I believe it was Art Donovan.

[Prokopton]

Yes, they read the entire document

They read the Introduction and Preamble, not the entire document.

[Republic of Texas]

It was better than not reading it.

[ReverendJames]

K, Thanks!

[thecodont]

Great! Makes you proud to be an American!

[Montanabound]

Art Donovan, Baltimore Colts. He is 85.

[Gardener]

As they introduced that segment they said they’d done it every year since 9/11. I don’t know as this is the first SB I’ve watched in years.

[MichaelCorleone]

My jaws dropped when I first saw that. I've never seen something like that on TV, much less when they knew a good portion of the country was watching.

Even the NFL knows which way the revolutionary winds are blowing!

[montag813]

Uh, why does Jim Plunkett appear with “El Centro Latino”, the center at Stanford which is run by the treasonous and virulently racist MEChA?

[maine-iac7]

I cringed quite a bit watching that. Who the hell picks these idiots to perform anyway?

they weren't "performers" , In the spirit of the Declaration of Independence - they are everyday AMERICANS - get it?

sheeze

[ExTexasRedhead]

Awesome.

[daler]

I was a bit astonished (given current culture) that Fox sacrificed several lucrative minutes of Super Bowl airtime to such a noble tribute.

The cameras also (briefly) focused on a Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It was great to see that, as so many are only awarded the medal posthumously.

Reminded me of this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy

Given that my own children had never heard of him (thank you, public education), I gladly filled them in on his heroism.