Tag Archives: national anthem
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Star-Spangled Banner Gets Butchered During Memorial Cup (Video)
The Memorial Cup is an annual hockey tournament played between the champions from each of the three leagues in the Canadian Hockey League (the Ontario Hockey League, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Western Hockey League), as well as one host team. And seeing as how the participants are all from within the Canadian Hockey [...]
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Days After Boston Marathon Bombing, Bruins Fans Sing National Anthem in Unison (Video)
When the world experiences a tragedy, something that jars us and makes us want to hug our kids or call our parents, people in the sports world talk about how, “at times like these,” you remember that “it’s just a game” and “there are more important things in life.” In one sense this is true. [...]
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Double Anthem Fail: Singer Botches Both American and Canadian National Anthems (Videos)
It’s not uncommon for national anthems to get butchered at sporting events. Often, this seems to happen because the person singing an anthem isn’t actually from that country—like the guy who sang “O Canada” before a CFL game in Vegas back in 1994. And sometimes singers will even botch the anthem of their home and [...]
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Happy Fourth Of July!!!
On July 1st, we celebrated Canada’s birthday by providing you with the worst rendition of “O’ Canada” to ever grace our eardrums at a sporting event (no surprise that it came during a Canadian Football League game being played in Las Vegas). Today, to celebrate Independence Day, we bring you what may very well be [...]
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Happy Canada Day!!!
While many of you Americans wait until Wednesday, July 4th to celebrate your country’s birthday, we Canadians here are TotalProSports.com have been taking part in a little celebration of our own, as Canada turned 145-years-old yesterday (July 1st). And in honor of our country’s special day, we give you this – the worst rendition of [...]
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Senators Fans Bail Out Anthem Singer During “O Canada” (Video)
Question: What is the difference between screwing up “O Canada” prior to a hockey game being played in the United States, and screwing it up prior to a game being played in Canada? Answer: When you screw it up in the United States, you simply carry on with the butchering as if no one noticed, [...]
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Canadian National Anthem Botched At Sabres Game (Video)
The Canadian national anthem is rarely performed at hockey games that do not involve Canadian teams, and perhaps they should keep it that way following this debacle by the anthem singer during last night’s game between the Buffalo Sabres and the Carolina Hurricanes at the First Niagara Center. Her error (It’s supposed to be “From [...]
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Brian McKnight’s Son Told To “Take That Sh-t Off Your Head” Before Singing NASCAR National Anthem (Video)
NASCAR is just about as American as apple pie. In fact, it is probably even more American than apple pie. So when the Star-Spangled Banner is about to begin prior to the start of a race, you better make sure you get on your feet and “take that sh-t off your head,” even if you [...]
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15 Hottest Women To Perform The National Anthem At The Super Bowl
Getting asked to sing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl is quite an honor. It doesn’t necessarily mean you’re any good (right, Backstreet Boys?), but it does mean you’re really famous and that somebody thought millions of people would enjoy watching you lip-sync. With the 2012 Super Bowl (aka Super Bowl XLVI) coming up [...]
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Weird Al Gets In On The Super Bowl Tweet Parade, Mocks Christina Aguilera
When it comes to poor Super Bowl performances, they rarely go unnoticed. That was the case for both the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Black Eyed Peas as they were victims of two of yesterday’s most comical Super Bowl inspired tweets, but they were not the only ones taking a virtual tongue-lashing for their performances. Christina [...]
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Here Is Christina Aguilera’s Star-Spangled Banner Debacle (Complete National Anthem Video)
How many of you degenerate gamblers placed money on how Christina Aguilera would wear her hair while singing “The Star-Spangled Banner”? Or whether she would be wearing pants, a skirt or a dress? There was no debating the outcomes of those proposition bets as the pop-singing sensation came out in her black skirt and straight [...]
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Crowd Saves Young Anthem Singer After Microphone Malfunction (Video)
Elizabeth Hughes is an 8-year-old girl with the sweetest of voices. She was asked to share that voice with the fans in attendance at an AHL game between the hometown Norfolk Admirals and the visiting Connecticut Whale on Friday night, but midway through her performance of the American national anthem her microphone cut out. Just [...]
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Butchered Anthem, Butterbean In MMA…It’s Fight Night In Poland (Video)
I am not quite sure who should be more embarrassed. The tool who attempted to sing the American national anthem prior to KSW 14 in Poland, or Butterbean, who put on an embarrassing display of his own in his bout against a former World’s Strongest Man, Mariusz Pudzianowski. We have seen some hacked up renditions [...]
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NASCAR’s Deafening National Anthem…Listen At Your Own Risk
We have heard some terrible national anthems before, and this one by Saving Abel prior to Sunday’s Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 at the Michigan International Speedway was among the worst of them. Perhaps they should have considered “saving Abel”, and the rest of us, from this terrible rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner.” I [...]
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South African National Anthem Gets Taken To The Butcher Shop
The Springboks, South Africa’s International rugby team, recently visited Toulouse, France, to take on the French International side. And prior to the game, the South African national anthem was performed by a Rastafarian.
Get the connection? I don’t!
