Country singer Eric Church had a clear message in mind when he was tasked with performing the national anthem at the 2021 Super Bowl. "That was a weird time," Church, 49, said on the Wednesday, May 6, episode of the "Hometown Titans" podcast, recalling his headlining moment in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and a turbulent political landscape. He continued, "It was also a good time, at least for doing that, because the Super Bowl was still the thing the country was going to watch when we did not know what was happening anywhere else, and I knew that.