Heh, I started watching in the Seventies when I moved up here from Maryland...Rene has been the only national anthem singer.
Rene is fun, but we call him “The Cowardly Lion” because there are passages in the music where we think he sounds just like the cowardly lion in the Wizard of Oz… :-)
Nothing against René, he’s a fixture around here. But it was interesting for me to read this thread after watching the opening game in Chicago, and I pointed out to my fellow Boston fans that that was a very impressive singing of the national anthem!
You know you’ve got something good, when you make an observation like that and your buddies watching the game with you DON’T grab your sweater, pull it over your head, and beat the snot out of you… :-)
Yeah, and for what it’s worth, that’s what I told my Blackhawks friends after that first performance: “cut the guy some slack, he’s probably a legacy.” That being said, he came back strongly in Boston game 2. He knew the eyes of the nation were upon him.