{"id":415729,"date":"2026-01-19T09:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/415729\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T09:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:41:11","slug":"jim-cornelisons-national-anthem-performance-ahead-of-bears-rams-will-be-broadcast-by-nbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/415729\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Cornelison’s national anthem performance ahead of Bears-Rams will be broadcast by NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

There may be frigid temperatures in the forecast<\/a> for Chicago ahead of Sunday’s divisional round<\/a> playoff game between the Bears and Los Angeles Rams<\/a>, but there will be a warm-up act that will fire up the Soldier Field crowd.<\/p>\n

Jim Cornelison will sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” and, as Mike Tirico told ESPN1000’s “Waddle and Silvy” show<\/a> on Friday, NBC will air the legendary anthem singer’s performance.<\/p>\n

“We’ve lived it at NBC with the Blackhawks games,” Tirico said. “I’ve lived it at the Indy 500, Jim singing back home in Indiana. I would walk out during the Saturday rehearsal of the pre-race for the Indy 500 just to be there and listen to Jim singing in the rehearsal so I can hear it on Sunday live. That’s the best anthem you’re gonna get at any game, any year. … That place [Soldier Field] is gonna be at 11 out of 10.”<\/p>\n

The 61-year-old Cornelison began singing the anthem at Chicago Blackhawks games in 1996 and assumed the role full-time in 2007. His pre-game anthem was an attraction during the Blackhawks’ Stanley Cup runs in the 2010s.<\/p>\n

Soldier Field has also heard his booming pipes on numerous occasions before Bears games. But Sunday’s anthem might garner the biggest response he’s received with a trip to the NFC title game on the line.<\/p>\n

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Cornelison won’t be the only star not on the field but in the building on Sunday night. Brandon Martinez, better known as “Cheese Grater Guy”<\/a> was gifted tickets from Miller Lite after he went viral during last week’s win over the Green Bay Packers.<\/p>\n

No word if “Bill Swerski’s Superfans<\/a>” will also be in attendance rooting on Da Bears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There may be frigid temperatures in the forecast for Chicago ahead of Sunday’s divisional round playoff game between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[19527,521,37,96,5263,52071,52070,5045,5,32123,17990,52069,4124,4,26391],"class_list":["post-415729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-blackhawks","tag-bears","tag-blackhawks","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-chicagoblackhawks","tag-da-bears","tag-frigid-temperatures","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-hockey","tag-jim-cornelison","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-mike-tirico","tag-nbc","tag-nhl","tag-soldier-field"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115921111240461655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}