Jennifer Hudson Lip Sync is Super Bowl Hit

Jennifer Hudson lip-synching the National Anthem at yesterday's Super Bowl. (NBC Images)"]
So unless you're a total cold fish, we're assuming you got chills during Jennifer Hudson's performance of the The Star-Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl yesterday. We did too (though we also got chills when the Boss' 60-year-old crotch came hurtling towards us). So it would be a lie if we said we weren't a little disappointed to hear that she lip-synched.

Pre-game show producer Ricky Minor says that both Hudson and Faith Hill, who sang America the Beautiful, lip-synched to pre-recorded tracks he'd had them record and submit a week prior to the game.

"That's the right way to do it," Minor said. "There's too many variables to go live."

After the performance, Minor said Hudson asked him, "How did I do?"

"I told her, 'Touchdown!'" he said.

Did Springsteen lip-synch? And what are these "variables" that could go wrong? Was she wearing skates?