CU @ Brown 2/1/14

[Trotsky]

I think it has to do with who owns New York. ::rolleyes::

Oh sure, blame everything on the Jews... ;-)

[RichH]

Since I was standing in the row above the Cornell Pep Band, I had enough and shooed them away. I said something like "OK, that's enough guys. If you want a band to use as a prop, use your own." A couple took the bait and shouted back as they left the section, "We ARE the band!" to which I replied "That's debatable."

Way to stick it to 'em :-|

Wow, a roll eyes with sarcasm, thanks, pal, you sure stuck it to me. Would you rather I had been angrily rude with them? Look, band-geeks have lame humor, I know, I was just speaking their language.

[imafrshmn]

Since I was standing in the row above the Cornell Pep Band, I had enough and shooed them away. I said something like "OK, that's enough guys. If you want a band to use as a prop, use your own." A couple took the bait and shouted back as they left the section, "We ARE the band!" to which I replied "That's debatable."

Way to stick it to 'em :-|

Wow, a roll eyes with sarcasm, thanks, pal, you sure stuck it to me. Would you rather I had been angrily rude with them? Look, band-geeks have lame humor, I know, I was just speaking their language.

Sorry, i'm just trolling.

[dbilmes]

they came in near the end of the 2nd period if I recall
I assume they had been at the Brown/Columbia men's bball game which started at 6pm

they sat right next to the Brown band and launched in toa  Beat Cornell chant, followed by a fairly vulgar multi-verse song which had a refrain referencing excrement
I think they also tried a remote control goalie (but it was mostly the chant 'bend over' repeatedly... and seeing the Cornell offense had Brown trapped in their end for a long time it became quite tiresome because Iles was just hanging out taking a water break for a minute or more

Yeah, that's right. Their bouncy-ball game was over, so they came into the strange, mysterious ice-world. It must have been disorienting for them.

First, the new, half-size video scoreboard announced "Welcome Columbia Band," which I initially interpretted as a dig against the Cornell band. At the beginning of the 2nd intermission, about a dozen of the Columbia bandies came down to the aisle next to the Cornell band with their Columbia University flag and proceeded to take their band polo shirts off to reveal that they were all wearing t-shirts from the football season that read "#beatcornell" (because the institutions think that youth can only communicate in hashtags?). Then while the Cornell band was performing, they stood in the aisle passing around their phones taking selfies of the group with their flag and anti-Cornell shirts in front of the Cornell band, because isn't that hilariously clever?

Since I was standing in the row above the Cornell Pep Band, I had enough and shooed them away. I said something like "OK, that's enough guys. If you want a band to use as a prop, use your own." A couple took the bait and shouted back as they left the section, "We ARE the band!" to which I replied "That's debatable."

The Columbia band sat with the Brown Band for the rest of the game, and the Cornell trumpets during a break played The Moose cheer, which is a derisive cheer set to the tune of Columbia's fight song, "Who Owns New York?"

To finish up this band report, the Brown Band performed one of their post-game skating shows, which they have been known for for decades. They did full Halloween costumes, and while most of the time they played, they were stationary, their final song was a real skating drill, with a rather impressive pass-through maneuver. Only one fall occurred that I noticed, and it was a bass drum. I appreciate that the Brown band continues to do a skating show after all these years.

While we're on the topic of bands, does anyone know why our pep band played the alma mater during the first period intermission instead of during the second period intermission at Yale? The same thing happened at Dartmouth two weeks ago, but that's because the Dartmouth pep band had its parade around the rink during the second intermission (the Dartmouth pep band is a marching band, not a skating band).
It's no big deal having the alma mater earlier, but I sometimes time a bathroom break, etc., to make sure I'm there for the alma mater.
Also, it's too bad the cowbell person hasn't been at many of these road games. The pep band played a snare drum for the cowbell cheer at Yale and it's just not the same.