The Las Vegas Bowl Has the Best Anthem Ever

The Las Vegas Bowl is going to have the burliest, manliest, sexiest national anthem ever, and there's nothing you can do about it. Sure, the matchup of BYU and Arizona may seem like the odd couple of bowl pairings between a middling-to-good Pac-10 team and the third best team in the Mountain West, and that's not even taking the glaring cultural differences into account.

(Cue the theme song: "One uses tanner, and mixes the shooters/The other's a Mormon, won't look at a Hooters/BUT THEY'RE BOWL MAAAAAAATES....")

If there exists one thing that can unite us all under one banner -- besides President Bill Pullman blasting aliens in his F-16 -- it's this:

Davis [sic] Hasselhoff will perform the National Anthem at Saturday's Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl.

The Las Vegas Sun follows that with "Yes. You read that correctly." Not because you are insane enough to doubt the premier thespian of our time's talents singing, dancing, or devouring hamburgers in a drunken stupor on the floor of a hotel room, but because they, too, feel the unifying magic of the Hoff's presence at the ceremonies. The Hoff has a daughter at Arizona, so there's a connection that likely puts him in the spot, but still: when Hasselhoff walks up to any mic and asks to sing the National Anthem, you turn up the volume and let the voice of freedom ring .

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