{"id":791990,"date":"2019-01-13T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=778396"},"modified":"2019-01-13T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T16:00:27","slug":"faith-no-mores-mike-patton-cancels-nfl-playoffs-national-anthem-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/faith-no-mores-mike-patton-cancels-nfl-playoffs-national-anthem-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith No More\u2019s Mike Patton Cancels NFL Playoffs National Anthem Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/shutterstock_9069589t.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Mike Patton was an unexpected choice to deliver the National Anthem prior to Saturday\u2019s NFL playoff game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Dallas Cowboys. However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/faith-no-more\/\" id=\"auto-tag_faith-no-more\" data-tag=\"faith-no-more\">Faith No More<\/a> singer ultimately pulled out of the high-profile performance hours before kickoff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry, football folks, I woke up feeling horrible,\u201d Patton wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mikepatton\/posts\/10157007472711103?__tn__=-R\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">on Facebook<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blabbermouth.net\/news\/mike-patton-cancels-national-anthem-performance-at-nfl-playoffs\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">via Blabbermouth<\/a>) prior to the NFC divisional playoff game at the Los Angeles Coliseum. \u201cNo anthem today for me!\u201d A violinist performed a solo rendition of \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d in Patton\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p>The Dead Cross singer did not elaborate on his anthem-cancelling ailment, but it appears Patton will be healthy enough by Wednesday to keep his appearance at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chris-cornell-benefit-concert-to-feature-soundgarden-foo-fighters-and-metallica-members-755656\/\">the I Am The Highway: A Tribute To Chris Cornell concert<\/a>, which takes place January 16th at the Los Angeles Forum. Members of Soundgarden, Audioslave and Temple of the Dog will also perform at the Jimmy Kimmel-hosted tribute concert along with Foo Fighters, Metallica, Ryan Adams and other special guests.<\/p>\n<p>If the Philadelphia Eagles manage to defeat the New Orleans Saints in Sunday\u2019s playoff game, the Rams would face the Eagles next week in Los Angeles, potentially giving Patton another opportunity to deliver the National Anthem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mike-patton-nfl-playoffs-national-anthem-778396\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Patton was an unexpected choice to deliver the National Anthem prior to Saturday\u2019s NFL playoff game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Dallas Cowboys. However, the Faith No More singer ultimately pulled out of the high-profile performance hours before kickoff. \u201cSorry, football folks, I woke up feeling horrible,\u201d Patton wrote on Facebook (via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 10:15:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}