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This chicken playing ‘America the Beautiful’ on Super Bowl Sunday is so moving

Is someone cutting onions?

James Dator
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.

The Puppy Bowl gave us one of the most awe-inspiring and beautiful moments on Super Bowl Sunday when a chicken played “America the Beautiful.”

It’s hard not to get misty-eyed over those purple mountain majesty and amber waves fn grain when America gets an avian anthem like this. I know it’s a light-up piano and that’s why the chicken is able to play — but I also know it’s a chicken, and that’s so supremely impressive.

Love you, musical chicken. Thank you.

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