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NOTREDAMECHIEF said:
Just another reason I am proud to be a Buckeye!
How many NC winning coaches will mention the band before they mention the team? TBDBITL is such a huge part of football at OSU, if you are a football fan you are a band fan...and the stadium goes wild when the band marches in, in fact, when the band marches from the arena to the stadium and the fans form a tunnel
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StoRMinBrutus
Great 2 B A Buckeyes !!!
I absolutely love the Tradition that Coach Tressel has started of gathering all the team and staff together and singing Carmen Ohio at the south stands with the OSU band . That always makes me proud to be a Buckeye. My wife cries (i shake my head at her haha)
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Hopefully dreams can still come true!
NOTREDAMECHIEF said:
I may give you a hard time for some of your posts, but I never question your loyalty to your team...your post only solidifies my belief that you support your team, thick or thin, and that's what a true fan does.
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brutus2002
Legend
I moved to Alabama recently and the Auburn and Alabama fans only know about the SEC. I was talking to a music professor at the college I attend(She played in the Auburn Band) . She didn't know about script Ohio and the dotting of the "I". I also told her About all the different songs that the band plays and how the team sings Carmen Ohio after the game. She was in shock and was impressed at OSU. Her second favorite team is now OSU.
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OSUBasketballJunkie
Never Forget 31-0
I gotta tell you, there is nothing like the OSU band, watching them march into the shoe that first games sent chills down my spine, when you hear them start playing, I think back to all the tradition and great games we have had during my lifetime, there is something about that band that alot of other colleges dont come close to having....
:gobucks3: :gobucks4:
:gobucks3: :gobucks4:
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BretGoBlue
Wolverine Spy
Michigan Marching Band performances
Not only has Michigan performed at other venues but they've done it at venues in an unrelated state.
Not only has Michigan performed at other venues but they've done it at venues in an unrelated state.
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OSUMBuckeye
Junior
Thanks guys for all the great comments. We always appreciate it. I think Aaron Stollar did a pretty good job for the bucks, as I think his article comes across a little bit classier (NOTREDAMECHEIF, care to give an unbiased opinion as to which seemed classier?). I've met Aaron a couple of times as his roomate is a 4th year in the marching band and president of my fraternity chapeter. He's a pretty good guy and I'm glad to see him representing OSU in a national article.
I just wanted to add that CSTV has created a short documentary (about 10 minutes long) about the dotting of the i and plans to sell it to a network to be aired before a game this season. They just showed the finnished product to the band at rehearsal today, and it was pretty good. They couldn't tell us for sure what game they will air it, possibly before THE GAME, but make sure you catch all the pregame shows the rest of the season if you want to see it.
BTW Brett, I'm shure we could go to other venues, but due to money and time constraints we choose to go to just one pro game a year and alternate between cleveland and Cincinatti, but places where we will be well recognized and the fans will be really happy to get to see us perform.
I just wanted to add that CSTV has created a short documentary (about 10 minutes long) about the dotting of the i and plans to sell it to a network to be aired before a game this season. They just showed the finnished product to the band at rehearsal today, and it was pretty good. They couldn't tell us for sure what game they will air it, possibly before THE GAME, but make sure you catch all the pregame shows the rest of the season if you want to see it.
BTW Brett, I'm shure we could go to other venues, but due to money and time constraints we choose to go to just one pro game a year and alternate between cleveland and Cincinatti, but places where we will be well recognized and the fans will be really happy to get to see us perform.
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"The Michigan Marching Band was the first band to appear in both Yankee Stadium and the Rose Bowl in the same season (1950), thus earning the nickname "The Transcontinental Marching Band." "
Uh, that's noteworthy? The band's appearance at the Rose Bowl had absolutely nothing to do with the band itself, but rather the accomplishments of Michigan's football team...the fact they just happened to perform at the Rose Bowl the same calendar year that they were schedule to play at Yankee Stadium is pure coincidence. With those effeminate maize and blue uniforms, they should be called "The Transsexual Marching Band".
"The Michigan Marching Band was the first big 10 band to perform for an NFL Super Bowl game (Super Bowl VII, Los Angeles, 1973). The band also performed for Super Bowl XVI at the Pontiac Silverdome (1982)."
And your point is...?
"On January 1, 1983, the Michigan Marching Band became the first recipient of the Louis Sudler National Intercollegiate Marching Band Trophy. The Sudler Trophy is awarded annually to a college marching band of particular excellence."
So what? Ohio State has also received the award, in 1984. In fact, seven Big Ten marching bands have won the award (Michigan, Illinois, Ohio State, Michigan State, Iowa, Northwestern, and Purdue). No band has won it twice.
The thread discussion isn't about which band may have been the first to do a specific thing, but about which has the biggest tradition. Ask any college football fan, from anywhere, to name a great college tradition directly associated with a college marching band, and 95% will say "Script Ohio". The other 5% are pompous Michigan fans. Most college fans may recognize the theme of Michigan's fight song, but won't be able to say which school it's from. Show those very same fans a clip of Script Ohio, and every single one will know is Ohio State. Case closed.
Uh, that's noteworthy? The band's appearance at the Rose Bowl had absolutely nothing to do with the band itself, but rather the accomplishments of Michigan's football team...the fact they just happened to perform at the Rose Bowl the same calendar year that they were schedule to play at Yankee Stadium is pure coincidence. With those effeminate maize and blue uniforms, they should be called "The Transsexual Marching Band".
"The Michigan Marching Band was the first big 10 band to perform for an NFL Super Bowl game (Super Bowl VII, Los Angeles, 1973). The band also performed for Super Bowl XVI at the Pontiac Silverdome (1982)."
And your point is...?
"On January 1, 1983, the Michigan Marching Band became the first recipient of the Louis Sudler National Intercollegiate Marching Band Trophy. The Sudler Trophy is awarded annually to a college marching band of particular excellence."
So what? Ohio State has also received the award, in 1984. In fact, seven Big Ten marching bands have won the award (Michigan, Illinois, Ohio State, Michigan State, Iowa, Northwestern, and Purdue). No band has won it twice.
The thread discussion isn't about which band may have been the first to do a specific thing, but about which has the biggest tradition. Ask any college football fan, from anywhere, to name a great college tradition directly associated with a college marching band, and 95% will say "Script Ohio". The other 5% are pompous Michigan fans. Most college fans may recognize the theme of Michigan's fight song, but won't be able to say which school it's from. Show those very same fans a clip of Script Ohio, and every single one will know is Ohio State. Case closed.
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Airspace
Senior
We all know that Ohio State football is special to us. Just like fans at any university - we all think that our program is special and unique from everyone else. But what makes TBDBITL special or unique compared to other bands is the fact that skull sessions are packed prior to the game. The fact that the fans make every effort to be in their seats prior to the ramp entrance. The fact fans stay in their seats during half time to see the band vs going to concessions. Alot of fans will go to the concessions just before half time so they don't miss the half time show. How many other bands attract this type of attention. And what makes this that much more unique is how good/great our team is, as well as our long tradition as a football power. At most schools like Ohio State, the band would be a shrinking violet in comparison but not at Ohio State.
I did not even touch on how difficult it is to make the band and the fact our band plays without sheet music like some programs. The straight rows when the band marches down the field. The fact that they can perform intricate formations. The band at times out performs our own football team. So many times I wished our football team could perform as well as the band.
I did not even touch on how difficult it is to make the band and the fact our band plays without sheet music like some programs. The straight rows when the band marches down the field. The fact that they can perform intricate formations. The band at times out performs our own football team. So many times I wished our football team could perform as well as the band.
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StoRMinBrutus
Great 2 B A Buckeyes !!!
Oh comon Bret
Even you know that that was a half hearted attempt to prove your point. I will give you this ... your fight song is known and you have an old band that has done some things through the years BUT stating the marching bands awards and places you've played. We can make a long list of acheivements and places we've been also BUT , I say BUT, If you add the love that we the fans have for the Band, Script Ohio, Carmen Ohio, our Drum Major, The singing of Carmen Ohio again at the end of each game (I know new tradition), The Drum MAjors run from the tunnel even before the game and just the overall love between the Band and the fans, and too boot all the band Alumni that come back year after year after year. There is no comparrison. I've seen your Band and the tradition and the way your fans sometimes pay attention to the band at the beginning of the game and during and after. Comon Bret .... you know the truth !!
Even you know that that was a half hearted attempt to prove your point. I will give you this ... your fight song is known and you have an old band that has done some things through the years BUT stating the marching bands awards and places you've played. We can make a long list of acheivements and places we've been also BUT , I say BUT, If you add the love that we the fans have for the Band, Script Ohio, Carmen Ohio, our Drum Major, The singing of Carmen Ohio again at the end of each game (I know new tradition), The Drum MAjors run from the tunnel even before the game and just the overall love between the Band and the fans, and too boot all the band Alumni that come back year after year after year. There is no comparrison. I've seen your Band and the tradition and the way your fans sometimes pay attention to the band at the beginning of the game and during and after. Comon Bret .... you know the truth !!
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Yes, Script Ohio is, hands down, the best tradition in the world. Not just in college football, not just in college sports, not just in sports, not just in the USA; it's the best tradition in the world.
There is however one tradition that gets me amped up even more than Script Ohio, and some have mentioned it, though not by name. The Traditional Ramp Entrance, with the drummers marching out in perfect precision with no sound but the cheering of the crowd (try it if you think it sounds easy), then they face forward and start that drum cadence that gives your SPINE goosebumps, and then to that cadence the rest of the band MARCHES on to the field, followed by the entrance of the drum major complete with back arch to the turf, then they strike up THE BUCKEYE BATTLE CRY. I am nearly in tears just writing this.
It sure beats haphazardly scrambling onto the field like most bands do.
There is however one tradition that gets me amped up even more than Script Ohio, and some have mentioned it, though not by name. The Traditional Ramp Entrance, with the drummers marching out in perfect precision with no sound but the cheering of the crowd (try it if you think it sounds easy), then they face forward and start that drum cadence that gives your SPINE goosebumps, and then to that cadence the rest of the band MARCHES on to the field, followed by the entrance of the drum major complete with back arch to the turf, then they strike up THE BUCKEYE BATTLE CRY. I am nearly in tears just writing this.
It sure beats haphazardly scrambling onto the field like most bands do.
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