In 2013, the band gave an “Ode to Cheese” in the game against Wisconsin and in 2014 formed the SnapChat logo (the picture-sharing phone app that started at Stanford).īut mocking the other team is often what bands like Stanford’s aim to do.
Maybe fans should have seen this coming, since the band’s previous two Rose Bowl game performances also incited anger. However, the band was allowed to play at home football games and certain non-athletic events, and evidently also the Rose Bowl. The band was actually banned from traveling to road games in May 2015 for one year, for violating school policies relating to alcohol, drugs, and asking inappropriate sexual questions. ESPN seemed to cut out of the live coverage as Iowa fans in attendance began to “boo” the performance. Stanford’s band “scatters” Iowansĭuring the show, which was in part shown on the live television broadcast, the Stanford band marched – and later tipped – an oversized Holstein cow costume onto the field, mentioned, and created formations to show a sad farmer and a corn maze. Meanwhile, Iowa continues a restarted tradition that honors farmers on their helmets.
#STANFORD BAND MOCKS IOWA SKIN#
While Stanford won big in the football game, they also got under the skin of Iowa fans, farmers, and some Rose Bowl lovers in general with their band’s antics. Whether the fans knew it or not, agriculture is a big part of the economy for the representative states and was both cheered and jeered in off-the-field activities during the game. This year’s game – officially the Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual – slotted the Big Ten’s second-place team, the University of Iowa, against Pac-10 champion, Stanford. Between 19, the champions of the respective conferences met at the Rose Bowl on January 1 each year, and now a matchup of the conferences occurs every three years when it is not used as one of the “playoff” games to the college football national championship. But while the tradition of the game involves a parade and football, lately the band from Stanford also decided to use the halftime show to take shots at the other team.ĭubbed “The Granddaddy of Them All,” as the original bowl game that began in 1902, the Rose Bowl is the most traditional of bowl games. For those fans of the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences’ football teams, attending the Rose Bowl in its traditional format truly represented a year of greatness.
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