Hey folks, it's Audit Cornish and on this Super Bowl weekend we've got a great bonus episode

for you.

This year marks the 30th anniversary since Whitney Houston sang the national anthem at the

game.

Just like today, with a nation on edge from the pandemic and politics, that 1991 Super Bowl

was set against a fraud moment in US history, taking place during the early days of the

First Gulf War.

So our colleagues at NPR's, it's been a minute, devoted a whole show to the significance of

that moment and what it still says about race, pop culture and patriotism all these years

later.

Here's its been a minute host, Sam Sanders.

What was a national mood then?

I mean to be honest, the national mood was, everybody was kind of shook.

That is Danielle Smith and she's talking about the national mood and the run up to the

Super Bowl.

Not this weekend Super Bowl, but another one.

Also in Tampa, 30 years ago.

In January 1991.

It was a different time.

I mean, besides the fact that there was no social media yet or anything like that, there

hadn't been these huge terrorist events like the Twin Towers going down in Manhattan,

the Boston Marathon, those kind of things hadn't happened yet.

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