10-09-2013, 09:42 AM
(10-08-2013, 10:13 PM)terry link Wrote:[quote author=61_Shasta link=topic=8569.msg70709#msg70709 date=1381289497]
@Terry: Sorry to hear the band isn't coming. Their routine in Provo a few years back had me hoping they might make this roadie. Your band sets a standard for irreverence that will never be equaled. And still bothers BYU fans to this day. Which makes we Utah fans chuckle.
Did the Band really go to Provo in 2003? I remember a big controversy over the Band's show at Stanford when BYU played here in 2004. The Band did a "Tribute to Marriage" show, which strangely didn't go over that well with the BYU crowd ("marriage is a union between a man and a woman . . . and a woman . . . and a woman. . . "). I don't recall the Band's making the trip to Provo the previous year. But I wasn't there . . .
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Yep, the band didn't go to Provo, but got in big trouble for it's show when BYU was here. It was actually a one-liner throw away joke in the middle of the show, which was completely unrelated. Mitt Romney also stole the joke a few years later, I believe. He did not get banned from BYU.
Sadly, the AD typically only funds one band road trip each year. It's almost always to the LA school, unless there's a schedule problem with that, in which case it's usually to Oregon. Occasionally the band will raise it's own funds to send a small group to another game, but that's pretty rare and usually too small a band for a field show (it's usually preseason).
As Kathy said, Ted Miller is the ESPN Pac-12 blogger, and one of my favorite sports writers. Since this seems like a good place for it, here's a link to his post from when Utah first joined about places to eat/drink when in SLC: http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/...ac-12-utah