By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Slip up: Christina Aguilera performed The Star-Spangled Banner to open the Super Bowl in Texas, but messed up the lyrics
Christina has apologised to fans
Packers win the Super Bowl 31-25
White House reveals its Super Bowl menu
Christina Aguilera made an astonishing gaffe by botching the lyrics to the American National Anthem as she kicked off the Super Bowl on Sunday night.
The 30-year-old singer performed a throaty rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner to open the NFL championship - but sang incorrect lyrics that matched an error from Wikipedia.
What she should have sung in the middle of the song was: 'Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.'
Whoops! Christina previously performed during the half-time show at the 2000 Super Bowl
But what she sang instead, as over 100 million people watched, was 'Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, What so proudly we watched at the twilight's last gleaming.'
That error matches one that used to exist on the Wikipedia entry for the Star Spangled Banner Lyrics.
Wikipedia is a user-generated online encyclopaedia that depends on the community for accuracy.
A change made to the Wikipedia entry for The Star Spangled Banner may explain why Christina Aguilera flubbed the lyrics. The mistake on the website, as seen hours before the Super Bowl and since fixed by a user, matches the mistake she sang
Apology: The singer later said: 'I got so lost in the moment of the song that I lost my place'
The star later apologised for her slip-up, telling CNN: 'I got so lost in the moment of the song that I lost my place.'
She continued: 'I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country & the true spirit of it's anthem still came through.'
Viewers at home were quick to take to Twitter to point out Aguilera's slip-up.
'Christina Aguilera just killed the National Anthem bet by singing the wrong words,' tweeted @darrenrovell within seconds of the mistake.
Flawless: Glee star Lea Michele belted out America The Beautiful before Aguilera took to the stage
Victory: Green Bay Packers' Chad Clifton hoists the Vince Lombardi Trophy after defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers to win Super Bowl XLV at Cowboy Stadium in Arlington, Texas last night
My daddy won the Super Bowl: Daughters of Packers players celebrate in in confetti after their team won America's biggest sporting event
'I'm pretty sure Christina Aguilera just messed up the lyrics to the Star-Spangled Banner,' jo__baby commented.
And justinjboone posted the message: 'That was officially the saddest moment of Christina Aguilera's career.'
During the performance military jets flew overhead to huge cheers from the crowd assembled at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
It all came right in the end: Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson fails to catch the ball as Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Anthony Madison tackles him last night
All-star audience: Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas watched alongside a distracted-looking Ashton Kutcher, while former President George Bush and wife Laura Bush sat in front
Commentators: Jennifer Aniston (left) and her Just Go With It co-star Adam Sandler took part in a pre-game broadcast
Christina previously performed during the half-time show at the 2000 Super Bowl.
Earlier Glee star Lea Michele warmed up the crowd with a rendition of America The Beautiful, paving the way for five-time Grammy award-winning Aguilera.
Other stars who have sung the national anthem at the Super Bowl include Carrie Underwood, Billy Joel, Diana Ross, Neil Diamond, Mariah Carey and Beyonce Knowles.
Meanwhile, the fans had a a ball at the Super Bowl, where the Packers beat the Steelers, dressing up in all sorts of wacky outfits as they forgot the snow and freezing fog to have a super time.
They poured into Dallas to watch the biggest sporting event in the American calendar - as welcome sun melted much of the ice and celebrities turned Dallas into party central.
The favoured Packers managed to overcame key injuries, beating the Steelers 31-25. They were only the second number six seed to win the championship. Coincidentally, the 2005 Steelers were the other.
The showbiz A-list was in town were led by Hollywood stars Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler, Owen Wilson, Aston Kutcher and wife Demi Moore, singer Nicole Scherzinger and Pamela Anderson.
Party of the year: Calista Flockhart, husband Harrison Ford, and John Travolta joined the A-list at the game
But it was the fans who appeared to have best fun as they soaked up the atmosphere.
The game is took place at the high-tech, $1.2billion Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, where workers and the fire service were attempting to remove every last piece of snow from the domed roof yesterday.
Organisers are taking no chances after sheet ice fell from the stadium's 91-metre high roof on Friday, hospitalising seven people.
Howdy: Steve Huntington, of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, and Kevin Fitzpatrick of Banders, Texas, get in the swing of things outside Cowboys stadium
Mask of victory: William Huffman of Dixon, Illinois and cheesy head-turning lady Ali Gentry from Phoenix
Photographer Win McNamee's shoulder was broken in four places by the falling ice. He told the Dallas Morning News: 'Honestly, while it was hitting me, I was thinking I'm going to die here. It was pretty frightening.
'I covered a war, I covered the stuff in Haiti last year. You always figure if something is going to happen it would be in one of those places - not at a football game.'
Cheeseheads: Packers' fans with sunny smiles lap up the atmosphere ahead of the game
source: dailymail
Monday, February 7, 2011
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