Meanwhile dinner with family continued:
Posted on 11/25/2016 4:31:15 AM PST by drewh
The only thing more dramatic than the Lions' 16-13 fourth-quarter win over the Vikings on Thursday was Aretha Franklin's rendition of the national anthem.
Actually, "dramatic" might not be the best word to use to describe Franklin's performance.
"Never-ending" would probably work better after Franklin somehow managed to belt the anthem out for a full four minutes and 35 seconds.
To put that into perspective, oddsmakers usually expect the national anthem at the Super Bowl to run for roughly two minutes.
Franklin doubled that, plus some, and let's just say people on Twitter weren't amused.
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I felt that she should have been handcuffed and arrested at the conclusion of her atrocity.
I saw that. It was painful.
I wouldn’t have blame any player that sat down somewhere in the middle of that.
I loathe it when a singer makes the National Anthem about THEM.
Should be hard on the knees of losers like kaepernick
Buncha raciss. If Pavvaroti done that you be thowin flowers. If Mick Jagar done that the b!tches be thowin underware.
So glad I will never see or hear that. Ugh. I’m sick that I even READ about it.
CBS...it can't be "never-ending" if it ended after 4 minutes & 35 seconds.
CBS...making crap up that honest news outlets won't tell.
Delay of game, 5 yard penalty, still first down.
But hey, at least it wasn’t as bad as this one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQYIHQvhIk0
I usually switch to another channel when they do the anthem. Most of the time they butcher it.
Let me guess, she held onto “o’er the land of the freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” and the home of the brave?
Meanwhile dinner with family continued:
Lol!
Just because all the VERSES wer sung.
O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
’Tis the star-spangled banner—O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto – “In God is our trust,”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
LMAO ..... wouldn’t have been watching any of those three . But that was a sad act by Shitheadra ...
Aretha Franklin sings National Anthem 2016 NFL Vikings at Lions Football Game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZLWHz8ekgw
Mel B calls that kind of thing a “me party”.
Not to ruin your joke, but I’m pretty sure that Pavvaroti is dead.
I did too when I watched more. Truth be told, I don’t care for the anthem at every single sporting event. It dilutes the majesty of its performance.
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