Caught up in the football spirit? Maybe that’s why Aretha Franklin decided to go long.
To say the Queen of Soul took a while to sing the national anthem before Thursday’s Lions-Vikings game in Detroit would be an understatement. Or, as the second-quarter graphic that CBS splashed across TV screens put it:
“Time of possession:
“Vikings 10:48
“Lions 14:37
“Aretha Franklin 4:35”
Current-events quiz
That 115-pound document that sold for $850,000 at a Beverly Hills auction was the:
a) oldest intact stone inscription of the Ten Commandments.
b) Green Bay Packers’ playbook.