Colgate's Band

[Ben Doyle 03]

My poor spelling aside, your L-A-C-R-O-S-S-E team is still one of the worst teams on our schedule.

[Chips \'03]

Err... quick note before I go back to my real work.
The only REAL Marching Band in the ECAC stems from the Cornell Marching Band, which -IS- the Only Real Marching Band in the Ivy League because the rest are scatterbands, and the rest are all also about half our size. It's a point of pride for us to actually march as opposed to run around, but we still kick back and drink with them (especially Yale and Princeton the last few years)
The Pepband used to be a subset of the Marching Band (hence, the carry over of the title... Only Real, blah blah blah), but has now been formally separated. Nonetheless, almost everyone in the pepband is in the marching band, and no matter how the football team does, the band always wins.

Err... that's the origin of "The Only REAL Pepband in the ECAC."

And now I've got some proofs calling my name.

[jy3]

[q]I remember last year, someone from Clarkson tried to propose an "All ECAC Band Olympics" that was just too surreal for words.[/q]

well this type of olympics would see yet another figure skating controversy - we all know that the brown pep band would have all of the skating events in their pockets due to their immense amount of practice ;-)

i always cheer for colgate except when they play cornell. but i have to admit i cannot stand the drunk @$$e$ who are annoying as hell when i am in hamilton - of course there are cornell goons i am sure.  anyway, see u all thursday. dont forget your newspaper and beware of crowd-seeking pucks during warmups!! ::twitch::

[Adam \'04]

Hey Jill!

[Lowell '99]

Clarification:

"The only REAL pep band in the ECAC" slogan that runs across the bottom of the web page is a variation on the marching band's motto, "The only REAL marching band in the Ivy League."  The latter makes a lot of sense given the nature of the other Ivy bands.  There are other section and/or occassion-specific variations, but that's it.  Just that.

There.  I actually managed to say something on a band post without adding fuel to the fire.  

Before I hit "post," I'd like to remind the Colgate pep band that they can give donations to the Cornell pep band.  Just send a check to..... oh wait, never mind.  Wrong thread.

[JB \'06]

OK IVE HAD IT. AND EVERYONE KNOWS WHO THIS IS, AT LEAST YOU BETTER. WHAT THE HELL IS ALL THIS CRAP ABOUT WHOS TEAMS BETTER. WHO THE HELL CARES. YOU THINK OUR SPORTS TEAMS CARE? C'MON, DONT KID YOURSELF. ITS CALLED REALITY, CORNELL. YOU'RE A
                             B    A   N   D !!!!!!!!!!!!
WHO IN GODS NAME CARES WHOS TEAMS BETTER? OUR BAND COULD, HAS, DOES AND WILL RUN CIRCLES AROUND YOUR BAND ANY GIVEN DAY. I DONT CARE IF U BEAT US 30000-0. OK? ITS CALLED MUSIC, MY FRIENDS. COLGATE HAS IT, CORNELL DOES NOT. NOW GO BACK TO BRAGGING ABOUT YOUR SPORTS TEAMS, BIG RED. JUST REMEMBER WHO YOU REALLY ARE, AND WHO YOU SUCK COMPARED TO. AND FOR GODS SAKE RECOGNIZE

[Josh '99]

Chips '03 wrote:

12:45 am, Monday, January 27, 2003:
Yeah, one of those Cornell bandies at RPI tried to lead me to believe that there is no hate.  What a liar!  I have no mercy for them now!  LET'S ROUGH 'EM UP!

Who would've thought that out of everything offensive I've ever said (or screamed at the top of my lungs at a hockey game) about Colgate, "We don't hate you" would turn out to be the most offensive?  

Silly lightweight freshman.

[rhovorka]

To respond to APK's post  point-by-point:

a) While I was in band, we had many folks from visiting rinks come up and tell us how much they enjoyed our performance.  I can't speak for current bandies how often that happens, but the band was signing autographs for RPI fans after the game at Houston Fieldhouse 2 weeks ago.  Generally, the "everyone hates you" thing is probably more related to the fact that everyone hates Cornell fans in general.  We're almost always a loud and vocal presence at opposing arenas...and because the band is an identifiable entity, that gets transferred to the band.  "Hooligans with horns" was the quote from an unusually bitter Catamount fan in a letter to the editor of a Burlington paper after their team fell flat on their faces at Lake Placid in the mid-90s.  It was funny.

b) "Only REAL band" is borrowed from the Big Red Marching Band.  All the other Ivy bands are known as "scatter bands" and Cornell is the only one that attempts to look like a traditional marching band.  Thus the phrase "The Only REAL Marching Band in the Ivy League."  The pep band was spun off from the BRMB in the '80s, and a good number of people are members of both organizations.  And the language translates, but they changed some words.  (EDIT: But then again 3 people beat me to this point, so you already know this)

c) Can't fault you for having fun!  Did it occur to you that we are too??  :-)

d) Don't know.  But you *know* had you won that game, there would've been much taunting.  All in all, I'd say the sportsmanship over the Beirut game was pretty good.  Again, someone was just having fun!

e) Sure does!  Hope you beat 'em both!

f) Harvard doesn't care about anyone.  Harvard doesn't have fans TO care.  Clarkson does, but when you compare the magnitude of the SLU and RPI rivalries, I think we all can see why we aren't AS important in their eyes.  Still, the physical intensities of those games are mighty impressive.

g) I'll leave that to Ben.

h) I'm an engineer, so I didn't even consider Colgate.  :-)

[JB \'06]

RECAP:

COLGATE: GOOD PEP BAND
CORNELL: I COULD TRAIN MONKEYS TO PLAY BETTER

[Ana]

Hi again.

Um, I'm not stupid, you know.  I really did get the whole 'only real marching band' root without three people pointing it out to me.  My point was that, while the marching band claim has some validity (Colgate despises scatter/scramble bands just as much as you guys do, trust me), the pep band claim does not and is therefore ridiculous and worthy of the utmost contempt.

Oh, and Adam?  I'm struck dumb by your maturity, insight, and articulate comment.  Really.

Ana Kaufmann

[JNB]

Oh, you do NOT do that to my girl Jill!  Kick his ass, dude*!



*dude=Jill.  don't ask.

[Josh '99]

JNB wrote:

Kick his ass, dude*!

She'd do it, too.  And do you know why?  Because she's CRAZY.   ::nut::

[JNB]

John, good points, but save the anger for Thursday

[Ana]

Rick!

Yay for sense and intelligence.  Kudos for a really, really cool post.  You might almost make me like Cornell after all!  (Okay, not until after I graduate, which will be a while.  But still...)

One final note on a), however...I wasn't kidding.  When I visited Colgate for the first time, I had people who I know for a fact have never been to a single Colgate sporting event how much they disliked Cornell.  I won't say what they said, b/c then everyone would get really, really mad at me and find me on Thursday and....sorry, my imagination got the better of me for a second.

Ana Kaufmann

[Betsy]

You know what?  I went to Cornell summer school in an engineering program.  I still want to be an engineer, but I chose Colgate OVER Cornell because I thought that Cornell would be a sucky place to spend four years.  And, I do believe that I was right.