Miami – Singer Christina Aguilera had said that "I have been performing the anthem since I was 7 years old," but when singing it before one of the biggest audiences in her life, she made a memorable blunder.
Aguilera was chosen to sing the national anthem to kick off Super Bowl XLV, pitting the Green Bay Packers against the Pittsburgh Steelers at the Dallas Cowboys' home stadium in Arlington, Texas.
One of the darlings of U.S. pop music, Aguilera had problems getting the words of her country's national anthem right, and changed an entire line.
She ran into trouble with the line "O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming..." which she lost altogether, replacing it instead with her own invention: "What so proudly we watched at the twilight's last gleaming."
The Super Bowl was played at the home stadium of the Dallas Cowboys, which has had its own problems, beginning with a winter storm that snarled the event's organization and put into a deep freeze the week of partying that usually leads up to the big game.
Before the kickoff, about 850 fans with tickets bought and paid for had to be seated in different sections around the stadium, while 400 others, also with their tickets in hand, could not get into the stadium, a disappointment for which each will be compensated with triple the cost of the tickets.
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