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The Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos great surprised fans by singing the national anthem ahead of the annual Hall of Fame Game, the annual opener for the NFL's preseason slate:
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Beautiful anthem, cool night-time flyover, and we're about to open the 2021 season. Bucs-Cowboys, just a minute away. — Greg Auman (@gregauman) September 10, 2021
The college football standard, which was the previous standard in the NFL (from 1945 to 1971), is 40 feet apart (20 yards from the sidelines), [7] instituted in 1993. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Previously, the college width was the same as the high school standard, at one-third of the width of the field (53 1 ⁄ 3 feet).
After the merger of the NFL with the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) in 1949, the opening game of the 1950 NFL season was a Saturday night showcase game between the NFL champion Philadelphia Eagles and the AAFC champion Cleveland Browns. Billed as the "World Series of Pro Football" the game matched the four-time champion Browns against ...
[14] [15] [16] National Football League (NFL) players were not mandated to be on the field for the playing of the national anthem until 2009. [17] In 2016 the NFL stated that "players are encouraged but not required to stand during the playing of the National Anthem"; its game operations manual reads that players "should stand" for the anthem. [18]
Super Bowl XI was the only one to not include "The Star-Spangled Banner." Instead, Texas star Vikki Carr performed "America the Beautiful" in 1977.
"The Eagles' Victory Song", popularly known as "Fly, Eagles Fly", [1] is the fight song of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. The song is played following each Eagles touchdown during Eagles' home games at Lincoln Financial Field and as part of pre-game festivities before the playing of the national anthem.