Assuming you’ve obtained all of your Tremendous Bowl snacks and fixings in time, the Tremendous Bowl Nationwide Anthem is the primary actual indication that the sport is about to begin. At the very least, that’s often when everybody on the Tremendous Bowl occasion begins shhhing everybody else. Not essentially as a result of everybody will get misty-eyed over the ole Stars & Stripes — there are many us that marvel what the hell the Nationwide Anthem has to do with home sporting occasions – however that doesn’t change the truth that prop bets, careers, and everlasting humiliation/glory are all at stake. It’s a giant second for the singers and everybody who took the over/underneath on size.

Let’s check out the 5 finest and 5 worst Nationwide Anthem performances in Tremendous Bowl historical past.

(The NFL has blocked a few of these from being sharable, so we’ve linked to the movies on YouTube the place we will’t embed them for you right here.)