It's a notoriously hard song to sing, but "The Star-Spangled Banner" doesn't often chew its assayers up and spit 'em out like it did Caroline Marcil. As
Sports Illustrated reports:
Despite two tries, she forgot the words to the U.S. anthem and then left to get the lyrics. When she returned to the rink, she slipped on the carpet covering the ice and plopped on her back before a Quebec Coliseum crowd of 7,166.
After lying motionless for a few seconds, the 24-year-old Canadian left on her own and the game began without either anthem sung.
The game she-Nuck appeared on ABC's
Good Morning America the following week to, you know, give proof that she was still there.
This is an amazing, real-life, feel-good story of one woman's courage in the face of the treacherous American national anthem. I daresay it's even more dramatic than the time Xena's tit popped out at the end of the anthem in Anaheim.
(For a trip down mammary lane, click "read more." We've got pictures of that infamous Lucy Lawless "nip slip." They aren't work-safe, of course.)
