NBC Sports has opted not to air the national anthem before Sunday's Divisional Round game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the visiting Los Angeles Rams.
Different networks have taken different approaches to showing The Star-Spangled Banner before kickoff, but NBC appeared to have angered many fans by choosing not to do so on Sunday.
“You guys and the @NFL are a disgrace and total losers for not showing the Rams v Eagles national anthem,” one critic wrote on X. “Wow.”
Another fan wrongly directed his displeasure at NBC News: “@NBCNews F^%# You for not showing the National Anthem!!! Shame on you!!!'
“Once again NBC is not showing the national anthem,” one commentator added. 'Thank God our country is moving away from woke and woke networks!!!'
A Philadelphia Eagles fan holds an eagle head before Sunday's game against the LA Rams
Recently, ESPN chief Burke Magnus admitted that the network made “a huge mistake” by not showing the national anthem before the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans.
But Magnus blamed “human error” after neither “The Star-Spangled Banner” nor the moment of silence were shown on the main broadcast following the deadly terror attack, which killed 14 people and injured another 35 .
College football fans were left outraged, with one calling ESPN “disgusting” and former anchor Sage Steele accusing the network of deliberately skipping the national anthem before Notre Dame faced Georgia in Caesars Superdome.
But Magnus, chairman of ESPN's content division, insists the network feels “terrible” about the incident and must be “held accountable for it.”
“There's a group of people in Bristol who just made a huge mistake,” he told The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show.
'It was human error, it happens. I don't want to downplay it in any way, but there was nothing normal about that the next day, including our programming.”
