National anthem at Eagles-Commanders NFC Championship has fans feeling patriotic: 'Can't get any better'

The Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders were much than conscionable part rivals connected Sunday astatine Lincoln Financial Field arsenic they played for a spot successful Super Bowl LIX. 

But 1 happening some instrumentality bases could hold connected was however large the national anthem show was earlier the game. 

Fans took to societal media to dependable their emotion for the patriotic country that progressive an existent Eagle, a superb rendition by Mark Kate Morrissey, who plays Elphaba successful Broadway’s "Wicked," and combatant jets doing a flyover. 

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"I’m not an Eagles instrumentality but their nationalist anthem is the implicit champion with the bald eagle flying successful the stadium," 1 X idiosyncratic wrote. "It can’t get immoderate better."

"Absolutely beautiful!" different 1 added. 

An American emblem the size of the football field was displayed by galore fans, creating a cleanable wide changeable of the full country earlier the 2 teams got to enactment connected the gridiron. 

But the unrecorded eagle flying astir the stadium from 1 trainer to different portion Morrissey reached the climax of "The Star-Spangled Banner" was talked astir the astir connected societal media.

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"Not an Eagles instrumentality but DAMN…that Bald Eagle flying during the singing of the National Anthem brought tears of pridefulness to my eyes," different X idiosyncratic said. 

As Morrissey finished singing, 4 F-16s from the 177th Fighter Wing flew implicit the stadium, putting the cherry connected apical of the patriotic scene. 

Things got disconnected to a blistery commencement for the Eagles faithful successful this game, too, arsenic the location squad saw prima moving backmost Saquon Barkley people 2 touchdowns successful the archetypal quarter, including 1 connected the Eagles’ archetypal violative drawback of the crippled to instrumentality a commanding pb from the start.

Many teams propulsion retired each the stops for their nationalist anthems during the season, but fans judge the Eagles are the pick of the harvest aft what transpired successful this league title game. 

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