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Aretha Franklin stole the show with her stunning performance of the national anthem

As far as national anthem singers go, you can’t do much better than Aretha Franklin. So it makes a lot of sense for the NFL to turn to her to kick off their Thanksgiving slate. And she came through with a stirring rendition of the anthem, but, man, did she take her time with it.

Thanks to CBS, we know Franklin’s national anthem lasted four minutes and 35 seconds.

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Twitter took notice and reacted as only Twitter can…

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