Forget Football - This is why the Hafltime Show rocks

A terrific job to be able to get all that choreography accomplished!

It's too bad that they all can not be in step, though, which would give this a 99/100 score.  If they high-stepped like the UW WI Marching Band and were all in step synch, then it would be a 100/100.

That sure brings back my Highschool marching band memories. I would have kept doing it if my college had a marching band too. The thing a lot of people never realized, is how physical marching band, especially the practice but certainly the performances as well, is. We were trying to get marching band counted as a PE credit for school (sports could count for credit towards PE at the time) but the principle nor the school board would support it. We finally convinced the principle to come to one of our practices and walk the field with us. 90 minutes later we had him convinced and he left, we of course had to practice for another 90 minutes still (our director was a big fan of "one more time!")

The horse was excellent as a new figure I had never seen done before.

It has been a long time since I practiced a drill (over 20 years). Back then, a drill designer would have huge charts that were hand drawn with each position, then map out the measures (beats or time for you non-musicians) it would take to go from one to the next. I can't even imagine the software programs they must have now. Even still, each actual human being has to learn their movements, in perfect time, as well as the actual music. 

It's not for pansies. 

And, as was mentioned, the athleticism required to do it well is no joke. I remember a DCI special on PBS one year in the early 90s. They hooked up a heart rate monitor to a drum line guy and had him go through a typical hour-long rehearsal. And that guy didn't even have to use his lungs for the instrument. I played sousaphone for a season. That was something else. 

I must admit, the allure of marching band for me probably had more to do with the fact that I would be on the bus to and from games and competitions with the girls as well. For all the bravado of the football players (and our school was hardly a powerhouse,) they came home on a bus full of smelly football players. I'll take the band bus. 

Glad to see others appreciating the sheer awesomeness of this one. 

Ah, yes, the band bus. Band geeks had their own brand of inbreeding...

As a band geek from a collegiate band that packed the stadium when the football team couldn't ... I have to say the only impressive part IS the horse, AND VERY MUCH SO AT THAT!!!

As for the rest... what's with those lines???  Even when one of the parade fronts was on the hash, they still couldn't get it together    I watched it on my phone so I can't speak to being in step, HOWEVER, was that really supposed to be a peak step??  I wondered... pfft....

Oh well... I imagine that software today allows directors to create some really amazing drills (just watch youtube videos of DCI competitions).

BTW... what did they do with their auxillary line???   As a member of the colorguard, I find that offensive, even worse than having you constantly march through tuba lines!!!  LOL!!!

That all being said, I'm still impressed with the horse. Not to mention the fact that it had to be at least 40 plus pages of drill - which is not easily learned in one week (as that's what happens in most college bands).

Wonder if anyone has an e-video of LSU Band from the early '90's with the train? 

Haters gonna hate. 

That goes for you too brider. Inbreeding. Nice one. Though a string of girlfriends from the band took me from 7th grade through college, I married a non-musician, so we spread the gene pool a bit better. 

Hey, I was a trumpet marcher for my entire HS career... Don't get me wrong, I was one of them there band geeks. I get the whole band bus thing. Add in the state band competitions, and...

Loved that, Thanks!!

Then there was that show in highschool where one page of drill had me running a 4to5 step from the sideline on the 10yard line to the 30 on the other side (opposite hash mark) w/ two peices of fabric that were 3 feet by 15feet (can you say DRAG?)  lol

THOSE were the years when I should have learned to swim, I had shoulders and arms of steel!!

Bus bummer was that kegs got banned on the buses just before I got to be part of "The Golden Band from Tigerland"