College football
The reason I don't watch college football suddenly dawned on me last night: marching bands. Is it absolutely necessary to blast us with snippets from the Star Wars theme between every play? What could this possibly add to the game except a monstrous headache. God awful. Unwatchable except with the sound turned down.
posted by BayonneMike at 8:25 AM
9 Comments:
muted football is nice but you still have to look at the colorguard running on the feild.
At the games it is 100x better. No question the band adds to the excitement.
However, I agree with your premise -- why do the networks feel it necessary to max the volume on the microphone used for the band? It is actually much louder at home than it would be sitting right there in the stadium!
itd annoying...but at least with college football bands,t here's some sense of fun and (more importantly) tradition. unlike the NBA, which is unwatchable even on tv with the crazy theatric noise they pump through constantly. unreal. to say nothing of going to baseball games, which drive me crazy. as noted here http://xmastime.blogspot.com/2006/05/things-are-good-part-xv.html
Yeah, I understood that some of those songs are traditional, but they still sounded horrible (this also begs the question: will "Beat It" one day be some school's "traditional" song?).
You're right about the obnoxious use of music during NBA games, Xmastime, but that philosophy of pumping up the music to fill the downtime during games to make things more "exciting" is also creeping into major league baseball. When did the public become so anxious about silence?
Now I'm going to contradict myself. Frankly, I wouldn't mind if professional golfers all had theme songs like boxers, so that when you saw them strolling down a fairway you got the theme from Jaws or Eye of the Tiger. I think a soundtrack for professional golf might actually boost ratings.
it's not CREEPING into baseball, it's already in there. At least at Yankee Stadium; completely ruins a fucking night out at the ballpark. its unreal.
Funny thing, they came out with a toothbrush which plays the theme to "Star Wars" in your head for 2 minutes, while you brush. Problem is you can't get it out of your head for the rest of the day. Unthinkable.
Gives band fags something to look forward to?
I played clarinet all through elementary school, but one practice with the marching band at ole HHS and I couldn't hack it. I couldn't concentrate on the notes AND have to march around in formation.
I have a lot of respect for those fags.
and the colorguard? I always wanted to be one. Didn't seem like it took too much effort, and Karen Moss was able to do it with one eye paralyzed.
Gina! We did have our moment of glory out in front of the band with the
Underground Social Reform! Better than all the color-guard waving, baton-twirling - marching band hoopla
money could buy.
yessirrreee!
I think I still have a copy of whatever the school paper was called with us giving the fist-up 'power to the people' sign.
ahh the 70's
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