GT Band Missed a Golden Opportunity

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Regarding what happened to UGA earlier this year (the mangy mutt, not the nadlicker nation), I just remembered something that the Rice Marching Owl Band (The MOB; the most irreverant college band around) did in the 1970's in a game against Texas A&M in College Station. Reville, the A&M mascot, had died prior to the Rice game. As the half-time show started, the MOB announcer came on and said that they grieved for the A&M faithful over their loss, and would like to dedicate the next song to the A&M fans. The A&M fans started cheering. The MOB then formed a fire hydrant and played "Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?". The A&M Corp (ROTC members, who take their A&M more seriously than God, family, and country) went ballistic, and thepolice had to be called in to get the MOB out of the stadium (escorting them out inside bread trucks). Can you imagine what would have happened if the band had done that in Athens on Munson and Dooley day?!?!
 
They wouldn't let our band play during halftime. They did a fan football toss instead.
 
gth816f said:
They wouldn't let our band play during halftime. They did a fan football toss instead.
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Thank God cause if our band had done that... I would have been killed, due to laughing in everyones face I saw. Wow that would have been PRICELESS!!!
 
They didn't let either band onto the field - the Redneck Band did pregame & halftime from the stands. So did we.
 
I heard that the band hasn't been back allowed onto the cesspool between the hedges since the grass seed incident. I'm not in the band though, so this is simply hearsay.
 
Allen Koholic said:
I heard that the band hasn't been back allowed onto the cesspool between the hedges since the grass seed incident. I'm not in the band though, so this is simply hearsay.
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The Grass seed incident? Was that US!?!? Wow! Please tell me there is a picture out there somewhere!!!
 
Wow. That would have been legendary. They (pups) would never shutup about it though.

Glad we didn't do it.
 
I found this in a random blog......

"You do know that the Tech band was banned from UGA's campus some time in the late 1970s or early 1980s. There was a plan for them to carry contrasting grass seed and drop/grind when they were in the "GT" formation in Sanford Stadium. I believe that they actually carried out the plan on a practice field. They also once plastered one of the bathrooms in the Georgia Coliseum (now Stegeman) with Tech stickers... floor, ceiling, walls.
Thereafter, they were allowed to come to campus, but could not use any UGA facilities. They had to get off their buses, go straight into the stadium, then vacate the premises promptly after the end of the game. Clarke Central let them use their facilities, and the Gladiator band moms brought them lunch.
Things might have mended by now such that the Tech band may again use practice and changing facilities; I'm not sure."
 
According to Tech band lore, the grass seed incident was actually carried out on a practice field in the Cesspool. A GT sprouted.

The best part, IMO, is that the Redneck band tried to strike back. They got the seed onto the field, but they neglected one part...

It was an artificial field.

GTSaxophone would know better than I, though.
 
Was it 1990 when the Georgia Tech band carried out a tarp/covering with a GT logo on the field with them to cover up the G? If I recall, some UGag cheerleaders/others ran out during the performance and pulled it back off to show the G. Pretty funny incident that could have gotten ugly.

Thinking it was 90, but someone else may have a better memory than me.
 
I was at that game --classic. My best friend's wife (girlfriend at the time, both are UGA grads and fans) went ballistic. We were all pretty drunk and she just went haywire and wouldn't shut up about it --even on the way home after the game. :laugher:
 
Dammit, why do I have to be working on a final project when threads like this are going on >_<;;;;


Quick summary:

1. Neither band went on the field. Even if we had, we were given very little time due to dooley's tribute at half time. (funny story, we were making jokes about munson looking like he was a cross breeze away from pooping himself. These two uga fans behind us were PISSED. We caught hell from them all game even as the epic comeback took place. At the end of the game, I turned to one and said, "Aww, now YOU look like you're gonna poop yourself..." Pure. Greatness.)

2. I would love to do the "Where is my little doggie", but the powers that be (or, at least, the ones that like to pretend they be) would have their panties in a wad over pulling a stunt like that. They yelled at us to stop singing "To Hell With georgia" everytime they played glory.

3. I'm also sure that the seed incident took place on a practice field. However, we are now allowed to march on the field again. We did so in 2006.
 
GTSaxaphone--How long were you guys given to play? It must not have been long at all, because I was under the impression you didn't get to play at all(I went to get some napkins for like two minutes at the beginning of half.)
 
GTSax', How did you like the NYC trip? You guys really looked and sounded good, wish they had given you more air time!
 
gth816f said:
GTSaxaphone--How long were you guys given to play? It must not have been long at all, because I was under the impression you didn't get to play at all(I went to get some napkins for like two minutes at the beginning of half.)
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Yeah, I think we had about 3-5 minutes or so. We were only planning on playing one song, and most likely Ramblin Wreck off the field.
 
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