ESPN pulls live coverage on Stanford band after it mocks state of Iowa

The Iowa band was great! Another excellent performance to be sure. They were well organized, and represented the state well.

On the other hand not only was the Stanford "band" offensive but they were also bad. What were those disorganized formations supposed to be anyways? They had no cohesion, and they just looked like a bunch of punks. It was really sickening to try to watch that garbage.
 
Stanford whooped us and even by half it was over. I couldn't care less what the band did. This seems like a way to deflect attention from the team being so awful yesterday.
 
DrKnipe said:
Stanford whooped us and even by half it was over. I couldn't care less what the band did. This seems like a way to deflect attention from the team being so awful yesterday.
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The stanford band and iowa offense had something in common yesterday, at least for me. It was difficult figuring our what either of them were trying to do while on the field.
 
ClintonIAfan said:
The Iowa band was great! Another excellent performance to be sure. They were well organized, and represented the state well.

On the other hand not only was the Stanford "band" offensive but they were also bad. What were those disorganized formations supposed to be anyways? They had no cohesion, and they just looked like a bunch of punks. It was really sickening to try to watch that garbage.
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^ this

They were using the troll job as a way to cover up for how bad they really are. Aw well, I guess they got their 10 minutes of fame as everyone is talking about this.
 
ClintonIAfan said:
The Iowa band was great! Another excellent performance to be sure. They were well organized, and represented the state well.

On the other hand not only was the Stanford "band" offensive but they were also bad. What were those disorganized formations supposed to be anyways? They had no cohesion, and they just looked like a bunch of punks. It was really sickening to try to watch that garbage.
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Come on, the Iowa band plays nearly the same 4 songs every halftime show. I'm not calling out individual band members here, but the songs that we (the band director) selects to play are some of the most uninspired halftime shows in the entire country.

It sucks that we lost, but honestly everyone should have known that the Stanford band would do something like this BECAUSE THEY DO IT EVERY YEAR, AGAINST EVERY TEAM. It was funny, especially the "Farmer's Only" jingle. Get over it, and let this serve as a wakeup call that the Iowa band should at the very least try harder to make their halftime shows entertaining. I'm not saying that we need to pull this controversial stuff, but at the very least we could be doing the sort of shows that bands like MSU do that sometimes have gone viral on youtube (interesting takes on relevant pop songs with cool formations).
 
Bluesman said:
Absolutely, I'm beloved by many due to my open mindedness to new experiences; you should try it sometime. When people never venture outside of their own little corner they do indeed become myopic, and they don't necessarily have to live in the midwest to be that way. However most of the people I live around are that way. I've lived in 4 different states, done business in at least 10 others and visited nearly all of the rest of them at some point. I've travelled to 15 different countries mostly for work, a few for pleasure so I certainly never stopped learning about the world but you sound like someone who never tried to learn much to begin with. There isn't a single state I wish to fall into the ocean or be destroyed because I'm not stupid enough to believe only I know what is good or bad about a place. I found positives about nearly every place I've visited, even Alabama and Saudi Arabia. I wouldn't want to live in either place but some folks do and that's fine. I just shake my head and laugh at how many Iowans make disparaging remarks about California when they've never lived or visited there.

The fact that we have a post taking offense to the Stanford band dissing us says a lot about our underlying sensitivity to our general backwardness. There are many positives to living in Iowa; geographical variety and rich cultural experiences aren't among those positives.
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Wow, how many key words can you fit into one paragraph? Open-mindedness, "their own little corner", disparaging remarks, sensitivity...I was wrong...you took SOPHOMORE sociology, didn't you?

I got it: you write for the Huffington Post, don't you? Well, thank Jeebus you decided to come enlighten all of the rubes here.
 
ClintonIAfan said:
The Iowa band was great! Another excellent performance to be sure. They were well organized, and represented the state well.

On the other hand not only was the Stanford "band" offensive but they were also bad. What were those disorganized formations supposed to be anyways? They had no cohesion, and they just looked like a bunch of punks. It was really sickening to try to watch that garbage.
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The Iowa band was as plain vanilla as the stanford band was awful and stupid.
 
Since I'm not a dork I wasn't even paying attention to what they were doing, so when the crowd started booing I felt bad for them because I assumed the boos were due to them sucking so bad. I didn't know anything about them being offensive till late last night. The people on the mic were offensively bad though, that's for sure.
 
fOSU has the best, most creative band. Iowa's band is lamer than Ames. We should just book a rock band for halftime.

Stanford's band is just stupid. They think they're edgy and cool, but they just suck. If you're gonna be derisive and offensive, fine. Just don't suck at it.
 
phdsvp said:
Wow, how many key words can you fit into one paragraph? Open-mindedness, "their own little corner", disparaging remarks, sensitivity...I was wrong...you took SOPHOMORE sociology, didn't you?

I got it: you write for the Huffington Post, don't you? Well, thank Jeebus you decided to come enlighten all of the rubes here.
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You rubes do need some enlightenment. As an experienced international traveler, let me assure you: you're a rube, and you're missing out. Enjoy your rube existence. Trust me, we don't envy you.
 

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My guess is that very few of you, if any, realized what the Stanford band is/has been about for many years....decades in fact.

Do a google search for cryin out loud....they've always thrived on being controversial.

Nothing new to see here....move along.
 
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