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Anthem encore: Cornelison will sing Sunday
Anthem encore: Cornelison will sing Sunday
Bears fans roared with approval when Blackhawks favorite Jim Cornelison belted out the national anthem before last Sunday's playoff victory over the Seahawks. Now they will get a chance to do so again before the NFC Championship Game.
Fox Sports officials confirmed Tuesday that Cornelison again will do the national-anthem honors before Sunday's game against the Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field.
Lee DeWyze, the "American Idol" star from Mount Prospect who reportedly was going to sing the anthem, instead will perform at halftime.
Cornelison, appearing Tuesday with Greg Jarrett on WGN-AM 720, said singing outdoors at a venue like Soldier Field (he also performed before the Northwestern-Illinois game at Wrigley Field last November) is a different experience than at a Blackhawks game.
"The United Center, of course, is enclosed and not as large, and the sound is more deafening," said Cornelison, adding that the Bears' experience was "tremendously exciting. You have three times as many people. There's a sense in the air, you can feel that sound all around you.
"It's beautiful. Going out there Sunday ... the communal response, it's not just exciting, it's really touching."
Cornelison said he appreciates the response he has received from fans.
"I've been absolutely blown away by how supportive the Chicago fans -- hockey and now football, they've been so supportive of me," he said.
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thank god no american idol weasels
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Awesome!
Now we don't have Aaron Rodgers third cousin starting the game off on the wrong note. No one sees the halftime show anyway.
Winston Churchill:
"Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak."
"If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain."
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This counters ANYTHING SI could ever throw at us....for those superstitious types that is.
Makes Sunday feel just that much further away.
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Originally Posted by
BearStuff 
Awesome!
Now we don't have Aaron Rodgers third cousin starting the game off on the wrong note. No one sees the halftime show anyway.
exactly!! went from a "buzz kill" to back to a inspiration at game to start and 1/2 time everyone is in the bathroom so no one cares and crowd doesnt matter
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So does this mean we're goin to have one of those 30 minute half-times? I thought that was just during the Super Bowl.
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Originally Posted by
myk26 So does this mean we're goin to have one of those 30 minute half-times? I thought that was just during the Super Bowl.
Nope.. they usually have 1/2 time stuff- but the stations go to the "talking heads" in studio so only people at stadiums subjected to it.. usually its a marching band or some bizzare 1/2 time show.. but no one cares or watches it..he will probably be 1-2 songs and be gone
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Does this mean we won't have a 4th thread on this?
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Originally Posted by
myk26 So does this mean we're goin to have one of those 30 minute half-times? I thought that was just during the Super Bowl.
1/2 time for the NFCC game in '06 was longer too. They had a band play. Can't remember who they were. Don't even remember if they were good or bad.
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