CanyonAg77 said:
ABATTBQ87 said:
Did you guys in the 70s mail in your performance as well, since you didn't march in the Cotton bowl?
So the Cotton Bowl would have been the only chance someone from the class of '70 had to go to a bowl game. Did the idiots at the Cotton Bowl not let them march? I know my high school band had gone and marched sometime in the early 60s, so maybe they didn't let the college bands on the field?
I know that all the bowl games we marched during my time, it was a constant fight with the bowl officials to do our half time, not whatever idiocy they wanted. They always seemed shocked that we didn't want to take the field with the other band, form an outline of Iowa, and high kick to Turkey in the Sraw while Miss Poultry Queen and her Nuggets were crowned at midfield.
OK Canyon here we go again. Let's don't question each others ancestry and/or love for Texas A&M. Yes, I marched with the FTAB in the Cotton Bowl 3 times. Twice when we played SMU and of course Alabama. No, we didn't mail it in The Cotton Bowl drill. Remember at that at that time, being on TV was a big deal. I have a vivid memory of doing the drill one last practice at a high school parking lot with football grid on it, and people running out of there homes to watch. At the game we were the home team so we marched second. Afterwards we took our place with the massed bands, high school's juco's etc. for the "extravaganza" After we got in formation, the blowers assumed the position and didn't play a note. Col. Adams didn't want to waste time trying to introduce a new number we would only play once. One more thing after we left the high school parking lot, we went to the combined band practice. Damn it was cold, so cold the Bama band wouldn't get off the buses and participate.
The person that is not willing to fight and die, if need be, for his country has no right to life.
James Earl Rudder '32
January 31, 1945