Thread: THE PACK, THE PEAS AND THE NATIONAL ANTHEM

THE PACK, THE PEAS AND THE NATIONAL ANTHEM

By Marilyn M. Barnewall
February 9, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

The Super Bowl game was great – what a joy to watch Aaron Rodgers so effectively replace Brett Favre and come into his own! Favre once said he wasn’t taking Rodgers under his wing and that Rodgers would have to figure it out on his own. It wasn’t his job, Favre said, to mentor Rodgers.

It’s probably a good thing that Favre went diva on this issue because Aaron Rodgers managed to do something Favre has never done: Win the Most Valuable Player award for the game. Perhaps Favre could stand a little mentoring from Rodgers? Many people don’t know that Rodgers is the Packers’ Team Captain, too.

Though the game was enjoyable, the more football game halftimes I watch, the more convinced I am that people who plan these things have no common sense. And, though I heard the pre-game show about the history of our Declaration of Independence was excellent (I missed it), the pre-game singing left a great deal to be desired.

It’s usually Super Bowl halftimes that disgust me. This one didn’t do anything to impress or entertain me, but it wasn’t as tasteless as the Janet Jackson boob-mobile in 2004. This year, the most disgusting thing was Christina Aguilera’s butchering of our National Anthem.

I once sang for a living with the Air Force Academy Dance Band when it played at the Lowry Air Force Base Officer’s Club on weekends (before the Academy moved to Colorado Springs). I understand the difference between being a song stylist and a crooner. Even more important, I understand the difference between singing a hymn or an anthem and a pop tune. Our National Anthem is a hymn. I don’t know about you, but I’m sick and tired of hearing pop singers stylize the National Anthem of this Great Nation in an attempt to make it sounds like “them.â€

Aguilera did more than stylize our nation’s song

GOOD! I am not the only one that thought her singing was atrocious! Well it sucked! BIG TIME!

And then the camera shots of DIAZ "eating popcorn" WOW,this is all these people have? I don't give a rats a___ about what most of these macho elitists do. More pressing matters ahead of us

I'd like to hear the National Anthem sung by a member of the military. Surely there are talented service members who can sing the song as it was written and sing it with respect.

I walked the dogs during the halftime show so didn't see it, but I didn't hear that it was offensive. Jimmy Dorsey and Glenn Miller? Sorry, they don't appeal to the folks that watch the Super Bowl. Middle of the road, boring pop is probably the wise choice.

I thought the whole idea of singing the national anthem was for the
whole audience, players and everybody to sing along.

How can you expect to keep up when the singer spends fifteen
minutes going OOOOWWOOOoooOOWOO...oo
at the end of every line?

Def

We have all seen clips of young children singing it better then these over rated pop singers. I wonder what theyREALLY sound like without all that fancy electronic equipment they use today?

Just as they air brush models in photos