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30 Years Ago Whitney Houston Changed Our Expectations of the Super Bowl National Anthem
Esquire
1/27/2021
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This once in a generation performance transformed the way Americans hear'The Star-Spangled Banner'.
On January 27, 1991, only ten days had passed since American military forces were deployed to Iraq, officially launching the Persian Gulf War. Thrust into another Middle Eastern conflict, Super Bowl XXV felt less like a football game and more of a testament to American excellence.
This is our sport. Our football. This is American strength. As political scientists have noted for years, there's this thing called"rally'round the flag effect," where tragedy or war inspires an increased sense of patriotism. Literal baseball card mockups were made of Gulf War soldiers. The government was selling the war with a heavy dose of American patriotism, and what could be more patriotic than the National Anthem, sang by the Whitney Houston, in a stadium packed with 74,000 people more proud of being American than ever before? If anyone could sell patriotism in two minutes, it was Houston.

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