It was impossible to miss Walker Hayes’ halftime show during the AFC championship game on Sunday (January 30). The country artist’s performance drowned out CBS broadcasters… But Hayes was a good sport about the audio mishap.
Hayes shared a photoshopped image on Instagram, sitting among the panel of broadcasters. “Didn’t know [CBS] was having us today but I heard I sounded great,” Hayes quipped in the caption. Fans dropped comments laughing about the unexpected sound snafu, even saying the TV network “should have cut to you entirely.”
“As a massive sports fan I was so jacked to perform halftime at the game, I just couldn’t wait to get in the stadium,” Hayes said in a statement, per the Associated Press. “We didn’t think our performance would be broadcast — so to see what’s happened, I mean, you can’t make this up! I guess we made broadcast after all! ...Sorry guys, next time we won’t turn it up to 11!” The Associated Press notes that CBS has not commented has of publication time.
Hayes recently released Country Stuff The Album, a 13-track collection that includes the Grammy-nominated hit “Fancy Like,” two of his latest TikTok-dance-worthy songs “AA” and “Delorean,” plus a few star-studded collaborations (MercyMe, Jake Owen, Lori McKenna and Carly Pearce). Find the album on iHeartRadio here.