who's idea was it to put foreign flags on the field for our national anthem?

They're not saying "boo" they're saying "boo-urns! boo-urns!"

Cowbooooooys

Mexico has a flag football team?

As a fellow performer, You DO NOT add so many embellishments to this song that it is indistiguishable as our national anthem!! It just goes to show that just b/c you're a "pop sensation" doesn't mean you're good! She needs to stop watching MTV and work on her pitch.

It was really pitchy dawg.

Oh man...the Star Mangled Banner II

Why don't they quit f-in around with these "famous recording artists" and just play the tape of Whitney Houston singing it at Super Bowl XXV? Maybe the NFL can mandate that next year.

Were Carl Lewis and Roseanne busy?

Why do Cowboys fans hate America?

Unless you've got some Marvin Gaye at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game going on, just sing it straight.

Francis Scott Off-Key is still penning songs, huh? I thought they stopped him after Carl Lewis. Oh well......

It's one thing to add one or two runs in the song...but every line...no. A few years ago, I was at an Orlando Predators game, where Aaron Carter (yeah, not even the more famous Backstreet Boy one) sang the National Anthem...and was booed quite bad.

PS>Who said she was a "pop sensation" I mean, if that's what we're calling a pop sensation now, Brooke Hogan must be an icon or something.

Does it sound bad to say that I want to strangle her?

Fans are there to watch a football game, not sit through a 10 minute someone's rendition of our national anthem.

Sing the song as its normal non-stylized rate so we can honor america and then get to the kickoff!

"Fans are there to watch a football game, not sit through a 10 minute someone's rendition of our national anthem.

Sing the song as its normal non-stylized rate so we can honor america and then get to the kickoff!"

Fucking THIS. I blame Whitney Houston. Stop making Francis Scott Key turn in his grave! SING THE SONG!

They weren't booing, they were saying de Loooona.

Seriously, they should just play the music and let the fans sing.

Coolest NA moment I've ever experienced was at a Colts game where they had some local artist singing the anthem and the audio cut out and come to find out, the fans were singing the NA and THAT was so freakin' cool and made me proud.

charlie steiner just rolled over in his grave.

-dan

You SUuuuuUUUUUuuuuUuu, oh wannna wannnnnnna, uuuuUUUUucckkkkk, you SUUUUUCK yeah...

I was at the game, and they were booing the Eagles as they walked onto the field. Not booing the singer although it does look that way on TV.

"Does it sound bad to say that I want to strangle her?"

Not when I'm sitting here listening & saying outloud "somebody punch this no-talent cunt". You're downright demure in comparison.

They weren't booing the performer. The Eagles were taking the field.

I have 2 words for anyone needing lessons on the singing of theis great song--LILLIAN GARCIA. She's the best.

how could the eagles take the field right after the anthem with all of those flag people on the field?

the fans were booing this kat deluna, whoeverthehellsheis.

wow, pitchy dawg, indeed.

i really doubt they were boing the eagles, cuz the camera pan's out n nobody is taking the field.

DeLuna gives whole new meaning to the word "awful". Who was her vocal coach for the national anthem? Roseanne Barr? Sheesh! My ears are still hurtin!

She's not Mexican... haha blind losers [[those who think she's Mexican]]

dude... I feel so embarrassed for her

her singing just makes me want to say 'yikes!'

so sad =[

its a shame that they chose her to sing the national anthem finger nails on a chalkboard sound better

Shes from the Dominican Republic o.O Not Puerto Rican or Mexican... but does this really matter? She just sucks. If you need to catorgorize her.. Put her in the Britney Spears/Jessica Simpson category.

Can't we just get Jessica to do it?

First of all I would like to say that she is a wonderful talented performer. Have you ever heard her sing before other than the national anthem? This girl has talent...dont compare her with britney spears....she aint even close to her,no disrespect towards britney. It is the first time she is performing the national anthem in front of millions of people and viewers on TV for America. I bet she felt nervous and overwhelmed being up their having to perform the anthem and represent Americans....the ones criticizing should get their ass up there and do it themselves...let's see how well ya would sound.

They crowd boo'd the Eagles as they took the field.

She was horrible. She is another creation. Keep her back in the studio so they can digitize her voice and then let her lip synch on tour to the fake voice. She and her promoters need to apologize and offer that she will join Milli Vanilli on the shelf. Respect the NA and sing it like you know this great country, that this NA represents, deserves to be done so with reverence. Pick up a history book versus Us or People and appreciate the sacrifices made and then go sing the NA.

Awful, just plain awful.

Not only were the squeeks and cracks embarassing.. the one finger up and head bob sent me over to the edge. Who headbobs during the National Anthem... Shame on her... she's no Miss Thang. She's Miss One-Minute Ago. She should be embarrassed.

It's bad enough that they never show the National Anthem being played before sporting events anymore, when they do though it's always done poorly by some "pop star" more to do with being cross-marketed than actually paying honor to our country.
The NFL is a damn disgrace.

i hate when "celebrities" use the anthem as a showcase of their talent and vocal ability. it's not supposed to be a show. adapt the song to your vocal skils, but don't turn it into a showcase. the song isn't about you, don't make it about you.

pro sports in general makes a habit of showcasing talent when the anthem is played, it's not just the NFL. there was a time when it was an honor to sing the anthem, not a marketing opportunity.

Man, you guys got that far? I was watching this Monday night and I couldn't get past the first three lines without putting the rest of it on mute.

I mean, it's the National Anthem, not an American Idol tryout.

I'm sure she's too dumb to be embarrassed. If she was stupid enough to put on a show while singing the anthem....

dang, IQ of a squirrel.

Her voice is pretty good, but her pitch was absolutely awful. You can't be a good singer by voice alone, and nobody with those many pitch problems should even try to attempt any notes other than the original... especially for the National Anthem.

It wasn't downright wretched, but it certainly wasn't up to par. Pitchy in a lot of spots, and everyone is right..she did get a little overtly dramatic with the hand gesture, head nod, grunting, etc. People have to realize that there are certain individuals who can pull off singing on that caliber. Clearly she is not one of them. =P

She just needs to stop laying on thick with those Pitchy sounds she has going on- I mean that was just awful- Aint no reason why someone would BOO Her- it sucked it was just a bad performance.

I have heard the National Anthem when there was a key change but not like this! She totally lost the key she started in toward the end AND was flat throughout.

She wouldn't make the FIRST round of American Idol! Simon would go to town on her.

Why don't NFL, MLB and NHL teams audition fans who can sing? Almost anything would be better than this!

OUCH!

WTF.... was that game in MEXICO... damn do we have anything to ourselves anymore.... N for her to chop it up... just classic just classic...

It takes *real* talent like hers to sing it in so many keys all within one performance!

Maybe Boo Weekeley was put on the Jumbotron?

yeah, she was really bad, when are they going to start singing it in spanish, what the heck,why not, all the illeagals need a sport too

OMG WHERES ROSEANNE WHEN YA NEED HER? THIS WAS BLOODY AWFUL.I THINK THE BLOKE THAT COMMENTED EARLIER WAS RIGHT, THIS WAS "THE STAR MANGLED BANNER".WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND LET THESE WANKERS PERFORM SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SONG?

Wow! She's no Carl Lewis, probably closer to Jose Feliciano.

Anyone who's not only gonna boo a young performer, but someone honoring the country by singing the song (how many Americans don't even know all the words) to begin with, is so much further off pitch than she was on just a few notes. Try encouraging rather than sitting at your pc's criticizing everything you don't/can't/shouldn't/wouldn't or couldn't do yourselves.

Those who are booing her, have never been to a Bucks game at the Bradley Center. People mentioned extra notes, Streetlife and Joe Jordan end up putting in so many extra notes and stuff that it doesn't really sound like the anthem and the worst of it is that no one in that band can really sing and only a few people ever clap for them and yet they remain our crappy house band.

I say the Eagles and the Cowboys got off easy because she won't be coming back game after game.

The best rendition of the anthem I heard at a professional game was from Terry Wilson at a couple of the Bucks games. I think she was the wife of one of the assistant coaches we had at the time. I haven't heard anyone to do that song justice the way that she did, because I can still remember how her voice gave me chills during that song because she was so good. That's what the anthem is supposed to do, give you chills when you hear it. But those so called "artists," take all the feeling out of it because it seems like just another song to them.

Why can't professional sports venues just stick to simplicity? I clap the hardest for the person who sings it straight, simple, quick and can carry a tune, the way it was meant to be sung.

Our national anthem is the one song you don't take liberties (no pun) with. These flash-in-the-pan pop singers are so self absorbed they think everything they do is genius. Forget artistic license - this isn't karaoke. There is only one way to sing The Star Spangled Banner and that's in the key, pitch and cadence it was composed in. That was embarrassingly awful.

It wasn't to my taste but I don't feel that she disrespected the song as did Rosanne Barr did several years ago. I guess her (RB's) "performance" is the standard bearer in poor taste and poor performance

I cringed...

Multiple times.

I took shrapnel for this? lady, go back to mtv or vh1, or where ever the hell you came from, you are a disgrace to this country and those of us who provide the very freedom that you sponge off of.

Cute, and not HORRIBLY bad, but she shouldn't add so many embellishments to it. It ruins the song, and shows disrespect. Also, she needs to learn how to sing a capella OR get someone to play the notes for her while she's singing. I'm a musician.
Ouch.

Why the hell is Kat DeLuna on here trying to claim that the Eagles were taking the field and that's why people were booing?

Quit trying to defend yourself on the blog sites and get in to see a decent voice-coach! That was atrocious!

Missed the MN live rendition. Thank God I did. This was awful. I am not the best singer. Hell I can't even sing. But I know crappy performances when I see them. Stay with the POP music darlin, at least there they have machines that make you sound like you can sing.

they were not booing her. The booing clearly starts at the end and is very loud, coinciding with the visiting (and much hated) Eagles coming out of the tunnel. It is just a coincidence that it is at the end of the song. I didn't hear any booing during it.

Been there...Done that...other R&B singers have "souled" up the Anthem and a BLASIAN(Black Asian)is not going to do it any better.

She was horrible. If I was on the field during that 'performance' I would have walked off.

I think she sounded great. Ya'll are just MEAN

OMG that was absolutely terrible. This is our National Anthem! What was she thinking, singing it like that? This is just an example of what went wrong in our country; someone thinking that they are so good, they can change any song they want. I would boo her too! She needs to learn some respect for our country and anthem.

It wasn't THAT bad. Besides, she's hot...for that alone she shouldn't get booed.

she just drug it out to long, some of that stuff was completely unnecessary. Just sing the song man!

It seems like some artists would rather try to draw attention to themselves rather than honor our country. The our National Anthem is a great song as-is.

What a disgrace.

I don't even know who Kat DeLuna is. Apparently not good enough.

Simon would have stopped her after the first note if she had been tryin for American Idol, how on earth do they consider her some sort of pop sensation? Um, not on this planet...She needs to go back to school and find some sort of other day job...leave the kereoke at the bar.

Simon would have stopped her after the first note if she had been tryin for American Idol, how on earth do they consider her some sort of pop sensation? Um, not on this planet...She needs to go back to school and find some sort of other day job...leave the kereoke at the bar.

Perhaps she could listen to a recording by Kate Smith.

I don't know Dog, that just didn't do it for me.... a little pitchy. Hated it!

Love,
Randy and Simon
American Idol

Who is Kat Deluna anyway?

Lord have mercy. What has our nation become when we call a 20 yr old a "Star" of ANYTHING !!!!

That's like the baby beauty pagents when some 4 month old baby is paraded around -"And here is Leslie whose ambition in life is to be a lawyer." - and her mom just beams.

This was the national anthem not a rap, growling concert.

The sad part is she started off quite well and if she just could've restrained herself and not made the anthem about her (the biggest problem artists have with the song) than she would've been fine.

It was hard to decide if it resembled the sound of a dieing calf in a hail storm or a hemorrhoid operaion without anesthesia. Either way, I wouldnt have her off a Christmas tree with a gold bar stuck up her ass.

Was at the game and they absolutely were booing her. The eagles were lined up on the sideline already so they were not taking the field. The foreign flags were because the NFL was celebrating Mexican something or other and they had flags from all the mexican countries like Dominican Rebublic, Puerto Rico, etc and they got a mexican singer from Puerto Rico to sing. That's what happens when you don't buy American.

Unfortunately, thanks to 'pop sensations' such as Britney etc... The poor youngsters of today think this sort of self-glorification is a style of singing. Nasally -check, whinny -check, retarded hand gestures -check. The NFL should be fined by the US government for such disrespect.

wow. America's anthem. sure does fit "America's Team"

what about rosan bar

Somebody say they wanted to strangle her.... I thought that was what was happening... I thought her Rhicola went down her air pipe or sumpthin'

Somewhere a thousand glass windows shattered.

i went deaf after the first 5 seconds

I didn't know you could do a remix on our Anthem. Musically it was off key, timing, and more exhausting than any player that left the field after the game. I'm not saying she can't sing but she sure can't sing that song. It was overall disrespectful and if she sounded like that at practice runs then they should have told her or fired her. I've her kids do a lot better.

She was gnarly, i almost felt guilty listening to her squeals. Id be the guy throwing a beer bottle at her head. horrible haha! zzzGO CHARGERSzzz!!

How far is Canada. Sounded like someone stepped on a KAT

Ok first off when you sing the national anthem in the South just do it normal....down there you go a little too far off they'll boo you. #2 WTF is all those retarded flags doing on the field? Freaking BRAZIL behind her? Whoever thought that one up needs to be shot in the head. Now for this young lady's singing voice....beautiful but if she just sang it like she started to it would have been a wonderful version. I just feel that she went beyond what was needed. The one that still makes me tear up is the NYPD officer who sang the anthem after 9/11

IT'S SAD THAT SO MANY PEOPLE FELL IN LINE WITH THE ORIGINAL MISINTERPRETATION THAT THE BOOING WAS FOR THE SINGER. BY MOST OBJECTIVE STANDARDS, WITHOUT PEOPLE LOOKING AT A HEADLINE LIKE 'SINGER GETS BOOED', HER PERFORMANCE WAS OKAY. DEFINITELY NOT THE BEST, BUT FAR FROM THE WORST PERFORMANCES SEEN.

I can see how she got a recording contract, I just can see how she keeps it. Next time try singing the Iranian National Anthem

BOO-urns LOL!

Well you know the saying there's only steers and queers in texas and she dont look like no steer to me.

I think maybe she was just channeling her inner Jessica Simpson because she sounded just like Yoko Romo singing live!

what did she do with the money she had for singing lessons. She definitely didnt spend it on singing or her wardrobe.

My wife is in the US Army and was asked to sing the National Anthem at a KC Chiefs/Oak Raiders game last year and we had to submit a demo disc prior to her getting the opportunity to sing. Where was this persons demo disc and why oh why did the Entertainment Department for the Cowboys allow this. There are some unavoidable things that happen but Kat should not have been allowed anywhere near Texas Stadium. She sounded like one of the people that get kicked off American Idol for fun.

I was at the game and we were booing at the sorry ass eagles that were comig out the tunnel, she did a good job up to the end!

That was horrible. That was the worst person to sing the National Anthem. She butchered it completely with the high-pitch voice and the noises she made. She sounded in one part like she was getting strangled by the person who made the Star-Spangled Banner. She really needs a new voice, she is being called a "pop sensation", but she is a "pop catastrophe."

They were booing her as if she was wearing a Mcnabb jersey while singing

She would have been available for autographs but T.O. wouldn't give up his Sharpie

Not good at all ......

She straight sucks.

that was more annoying then obama

i still think the time Rosanne sang was worse

well i can honestly say that was interesting but it was not the worst. people who are old enough might remember Roseann bar doing far worse things to the national anthem.

I might not have taken shrapnel but I did serve 6 years. Sing it for the nation and for those in harms way. My Dad taught me young to respect it. You stand, remove your hat and for that minute or two focus on what the song means. I heard it sung on the deck of an aircraft carrier as a sailor's remains were surrendered to the sea. If the singer can't understand what that feels like they shouldn't be singing it. When it's sung straight I still choke up. When you pimp it up you disrespect those who have served and those who are serving. It's about the blood of those who died not promoting yourself. If you don't understand that it is more than notes and words then politely decline the invitation.

remix!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd do her.

she isn't mexican, bruh.

SHE FROM THE BANANA BOAT...

SHE SOUNDED LIKE SHE WAS BEING RAPED, BY AMERICA.

She wasn't good but she wasn't brutal either. They're have been worse. I think she does better when she sings R&B and pop but she should have stayed away from this. I think there's more respect an admitting that you can't give the song justice and so you'd rather not be chosen for it. They should have known better than to have put her up there too. With all that said. There is one thing that is bugging me more than the topic of Kat and the anthem. Someone commented this:

"Was at the game and they absolutely were booing her. The eagles were lined up on the sideline already so they were not taking the field. The foreign flags were because the NFL was celebrating Mexican something or other and they had flags from all the mexican countries like Dominican Rebublic, Puerto Rico, etc and they got a mexican singer from Puerto Rico to sing. That's what happens when you don't buy American."

Now..why hasn't anyone corrected this person already? I'm sorry who ever you are but you're not very bright. Open up a map of the world and you might be amazed at what you find.

shes hot id fuck her

"Was at the game and they absolutely were booing her. The eagles were lined up on the sideline already so they were not taking the field. The foreign flags were because the NFL was celebrating Mexican something or other and they had flags from all the mexican countries like Dominican Rebublic, Puerto Rico, etc and they got a mexican singer from Puerto Rico to sing. That's what happens when you don't buy American."


Wow, this comment is too funny. Cant imagine why the world thinks American are stupid.
The rendition was not that bad, not to boo, Dallas fans are retarded.
Why are there so many ignorant, racist comments being posted about this? Lets not forget it was a British man who wrote that poem that later became our national anthem.

I have to agree ...why the hell is there ANY foreign flag on the field during our national anthem? AND as for the idiot singing just more proof of pop musics "no talent/more money generation"

Star Strangled banenr

The crowd did not boo her. They booed the eagles as they came onto the field.

The worst I have ever heard.

This is why they shouldn't even have the national anthem at sporting events. People can sing it to themselves if they care that much. Nationalism is wack anyway.

OMGZ they had another flag on the field? get those second-rate countries off the field and make them bow to imperial america! HAIL, COMRADE!

nt bad at al

That Wuz So F'n Bad....she put way 2 many note's in it and messup up tha "fr33" horribly it woulda b33n diff3r3nt if it wulda sounded gudd but she had horribly pitche'z....thats why you dont try 2 to perform, like nike you just do it.

Just one question? What does this song have to do with football?

She did really bad she tried WAY to hard, but it was cool to see all those different flags, its good to see the mexican heritage celebrated.

RED GLARE!!!

do yee not find it disrespectful for someone to do a mariah carey style singing of your anthem,warbling all over the place,theres one way to sing every anthem,if some unknown pop 'sensation' did that to my anthem she'd have to mke tracks out the stadium pretty quickly

I don't think it was THAT bad--seemed like a lot of that vibrato was an attempt to cover up nerves. At any rate, it's always in poor taste to "boo" someone that has put so much effort into a performance, no matter how bad the end result is.

But then, Dallas fans have never been renown for their class.