The Eli Young Band screws up the National Athem at the Chiefs game [updated]

UPDATE: Read the band’s apology to Kansas City after the jump.
Were you at Arrowhead this weekend? Well, then you saw the Eli Young Band‘s lead singer — Mike Eli — royally screw up the words to the National Anthem. (Anyone who attended K-State in the last several years will probably remember the Texas band for their numerous dates at Longhorns Saloon in Aggieville. Or so my roommate tells me. Anyway.)

As if the group exercise of slogging through our nation’s theme song wasn’t teeth-grittingly awkward enough to begin with, now, Eli stalled out during the song’s most awkward transition: “At the Twilight’s last gleaming…Oh, through the…” Cue a stadium’s worth of “WTF?”

Click through to experience the shame, first-hand.