In 1990, Someone Thought Roseanne Barr Singing the National Anthem Was a Swell Idea
Picture this: It’s July 25, 1990. You and your family are settling in to your seats at San Diego’s Jack Murphy Stadium to watch the second game of a doubleheader between the Padres and the Cincinnati Reds.
It’s a special Working Women’s Day at the ballpark, so there will be lots of family friendly entertainment and appreciation of working women.
A guy on the field announces “And please give a great big Major League San Diego welcome to America’s most famous working woman, Roseanne Barr, who will sing our national anthem.”
And then, this:
To be followed by all the pearl-clutching and hand-wringing and “think-about-the-children”-ing from the media.
Somehow, America survived that. And the Padres beat the Reds 10-4.
Roseanne kind of faded into the background for a while there, but she came back with a vengeance when ABC rebooted her Roseanne sitcom in 2018.
And then she sunk that ship, too.
Let this be a lesson to all: When you get Roseanne, you have no one to blame but yourself when Roseanne does what Roseanne’s gonna do. But just when you thought she was the worst, the 2024 Home Run Derby comes along and country singer Ingrid Andress has given the Barr a run for the money on possibly the worst rendition of the song yet.
Remind