O.K. my school (Stanford) played Brigham Young University (B.Y.U.) last Saturday, and it was actually a good game. That is, not counting halftime, when the band came on the field. Now, maybe a lot of you don't know about the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB for short), but here are a few facts:
We don't march.
We are very undiciplined.
We are extremely UN-P.C.
Musically, we suck (although we really have very talented musicians).
We laugh at bands like USC and all of the other precision bands.
As a undergraduate, it was fun to be different, but as an alum, it's now kind of embarassing.
The band changed back in the 1970's, after Stanford changed from the Stanford Indians to the Stanford Cardinal (the color, not the bird). Thay wanted to be "the world's largest rock-and-roll band", so they became very rowdy. I am sure that those of you old enough to remember have heard of "The Play"-stunts like that make it very hard to be a good fan (and also the fact that for the most part, we are NOT a football school-not like USC and others).
So anyway, the band comes out, and they do a halftime show making fun of the Mormons, with dancers wearing wedding veils, and making jokes about polygamy. This did not sit well with the BYU fans. We have done this before against Notre Dame, when we had a guy dressed as the Pope riding on the field in the "Popemobile", and believe me, people were not amused. Sometimes the skits can be funny (like USC being called the University of Spoiled Children), but more often, they are just barely on the line of being distasteful. With the traditional rivalries, it's fun because they make fun of us as well, but when it comes to the religious universites, then that's a problem, because they also have God on their side
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Maybe we should stick with tennis, golf, swimming, and water polo...
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