Bears' national anthem singer sends NFL fans into frenzy with performance before playoff game

Jim Cornelison helped springiness the NFC Divisional Round matchup betwixt the Chicago Bears and Los Angeles Rams a large crippled consciousness with his rendition of the U.S. nationalist anthem connected Sunday.

Cornelison belted retired "The Star-Spangled Banner" successful beforehand of a sold-out Soldier Field crowd. NFL fans and the players joined successful and sang the anthem with Cornelison.

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Jim Cornelison performs the nationalist anthem earlier the commencement of Round One of the 2017 NHL Draft astatine United Center connected June 23, 2017 successful Chicago, Illinois. (Dave Sandford/NHLI via Getty Images)

NFL fans who tuned into the crippled connected societal media praised Cornelison for his performance.

It’s not the archetypal clip that Cornelison near a people connected NFL fans this season. He received a circular of applause backmost successful September erstwhile helium performed the anthem earlier the Bears took connected the Minnesota Vikings. It was the archetypal "Monday Night Football" crippled of the season.

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Chicago Bears' DJ Moore takes the tract anterior to an NFL shot divisional playoff crippled against the Los Angeles Rams Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, successful Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

The 61-year-old is simply a regular astatine Chicago sporting events. He’s been the Bears’ nationalist anthem vocalist since 2010. He hits the crystal for Chicago Blackhawks games since 2008 and has sung "Back Home Again successful Indiana" earlier the Indianapolis 500 since 2017.

Cornelison is conscionable arsenic fashionable extracurricular of sports. He was a portion of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists successful Chicago and sang astatine immoderate of the astir fashionable opera houses astir the world.

He’s besides connected the committee of the Illinois Patriot Education Fund and the honorary squad commandant of the U.S. Air Force Band of Mid-America.

Los Angeles Rams backmost Matthew Stafford works retired anterior to an NFL shot divisional playoff crippled against the Chicago Bears Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026, successful Chicago. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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The victor of the Bears-Rams crippled volition get a berth into the NFC Championship Game adjacent weekend.

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