Oh, Say, Was Garth Steamed?
Friday, February 05, 1993. Associated Press

A dispute over Garth Brooks' first videoclip in almost two years resulted in his threatening not to sing the national anthem at Sunday's Super Bowl.

The tiff was resolved when the clip for "We Shall Be Free" aired in the final pregame minutes-just as Brooks was ready to walk out of the stadium, according to Billboard. "Garth was up for two days editing a video that NBC and the NFL had asked for and planned to air in the pregame show," says Pam Lewis, Brooks' co-manager.

After delivering the clip to NBC, though, Brooks waited several hours and heard nothing from the network about its status. "Finally, Garth said, `You run it or I walk,' because of the way he got jerked around," Lewis says. Ed Markey, NBC's director of sports press, said: "The bottom line is (that) we showed the video, he sang the anthem. End of story."