As critics shame Steven Tyler for bungling the National Anthem before the Patriots-Ravens NFL playoff game this weekend, one thing is certain: the American Idol judge and sometime Aerosmith frontman was just the latest in a long line of Americans who have butchered the patriotic song. TIME take a look at the 10 most ear-wrenching renditions of the anthem
Immortalized by a TV news crew, this 2006 performance of the national anthem by a Chattanooga police officer is downright shameful. His fellow officers struggle to remain stoic as he butchers the lyrics from beginning to end. The awful rendition is made worse by the occasion — a memorial for fallen officers.
