{"id":22498,"date":"2025-02-24T03:09:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T03:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22498"},"modified":"2025-02-24T03:09:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T03:09:59","slug":"nfl-is-reportedly-worried-that-national-anthem-performers-will-start-a-controversial-trend-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22498","title":{"rendered":"NFL Is Reportedly Worried That National Anthem Performers Will Start A Controversial Trend In 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL<\/a>\u00a0has worked extensively to avoid national anthem controversies since President Donald Trump\u2019s first term in office.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it sounds like Chantal Kreviazuk changing the lyrics to \u201cO Canada\u201d ahead of the Canada-USA 4 Nations Face-Off Final now has the NFL worried about similar controversies for future national anthem performances at their games.<\/p>\n<p>Kreviazuk, a Canadian, changed a few words in her \u201cO Canada\u201d performance on Thursday night in Boston. Instead of \u201cin all of us command,\u201d she sang, \u201cthat only us command.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bill &amp; Carolyn &#8211; Before last night&#8217;s 4 Nations Final between Canada &amp; the US in Boston, Winnipeg-born Chantal Kreviazuk changed the lyric from \u2018in all of us command\u2019 to \u2018that only us command\u2019 because of President Trump\u2019s continuous calls for Canada to become the 51st state. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8gHApA8nTM\">pic.twitter.com\/8gHApA8nTM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Coast 101.1 (@coast1011) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coast1011\/status\/1892881960957084091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kreviazuk changed the lyrics during her performance in response to President Trump\u2019s call for Canada to become America\u2019s \u201c51st state.\u201d And now, it sounds like the NFL is worried that future performers of \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d for their games will follow Kreviazuk\u2019s lead by changing the lyrics in their national anthem performances.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what Pro Football Talk\u2019s Mike Florio\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/4-nations-anthem-incident-exposes-chance-for-nfl-performers-to-go-rogue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote on the matter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt every game, the person chosen to sing the song could choose to go rogue and change the lyrics. It could happen at a run-of-the-mill regular-season game. It could happen at the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>We asked the league on Friday whether steps have been taken to keep that from occurring. We didn\u2019t get a response. Which means either that they\u2019re ignoring us (again) or that they don\u2019t have a response because they never thought about it before.<\/p>\n<p>They probably should. Kreviazuk has exposed a loophole for anyone who wants to make any statement they want by making a shift in the lyrics to the\u00a0<em>Star-Spangled Banner<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no perfect way for the NFL to ensure that their national anthem performers will perform the normal lyrics from start to finish. Florio notes that this may be a new concern they never previously considered.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-nfl-doesn-t-want-any-more-national-anthem-controversies\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">NFL Doesn\u2019t Want Any More National Anthem Controversies<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2255832\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_25379541-1-1024x563.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_25379541-1-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_25379541-1-595x327.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_25379541-1-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_25379541-1-1024x563.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_25379541-1-1536x845.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_25379541-1-2048x1126.jpg 2048w\" alt=\"Donald Trump clapping\" width=\"1024\" height=\"563\" \/><em>Donald Trump (Photo via Mark J. Rebilas\/Imagn Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2017, his first year as president, Donald Trump called for the NFL to \u201cfire\u201d any players who refused to stand for the national anthem. Then-<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a>\u00a0quarterback\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/colin-kaepernick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colin Kaepernick<\/a>\u00a0started the movement in 2016, stating that he knelt in protest of police brutality and social injustices.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, the league introduced a new anthem policy that requires all coaches and players to stand during the performance of \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner.\u201d However, they have the option to stay in the locker room during the national anthem performance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The\u00a0NFL\u00a0has worked extensively to avoid national anthem controversies since President Donald Trump\u2019s first term in office. Well, it sounds like Chantal Kreviazuk changing the lyrics to \u201cO Canada\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22500,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498\/revisions\/22500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}