Aerosmith singer and American Idol judge Steven Tyler was roundly criticized for his screeching rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner at the AFC championship game on Sunday, but, really, was it all that bad?
Other national-anthem singers at sporting events have done worse, including track-and-field superstar Carl Lewis's high-note disaster in 1993, actress Rosanne Barr's embarrassment in 1990, an amateur singer's nightmare on ice and Christina Aguilera's lyric-mangling rendition at last year's Super Bowl, in which "O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming" became "What so proudly we watched, at the twilight's last reaming."