Anyone here go listen to the pre-game poem on Melrose prior to kickoff?

[soybean]

If you can't think of anything less masculine, you must not have much of an imagination.

Questioning the manhood of a poet would be one.

 

[Dauminator]

Is this all stemming from "In Heaven there is No beer" that is played, or is there something more the Hawkeye Marching Band does that I am not aware of?

Neither, technically. Some members of the HMB take their instruments on Friday night and play to the throngs for free beer. They also sing alternative versions of other Big Ten team's fight songs. The lyrics to these parodies is what drew the complaint and led to the shutdown.

I'm still trying to figure out under what authority this band has been quashed. The article even points out the Beer Band has no affiliation with the University, so what gives them the right?

I think the band should just play on.

The band director. The beer band is not sanctioned, but as hawkcub pointed out, the players are from the HMB. Just like when a football player does something outside of football the coach doesn't like and gets suspended, the band director can do the same to HMB members. He hasn't yet (I don't think), but this is the leverage he had when he asked the beer band leader to stop.

 

[milehighhawkeye24]

Neither, technically. Some members of the HMB take their instruments on Friday night and play to the throngs for free beer. They also sing alternative versions of other Big Ten team's fight songs. The lyrics to these parodies is what drew the complaint and led to the shutdown.


The band director. The beer band is not sanctioned, but as hawkcub pointed out, the players are from the HMB. Just like when a football player does something outside of football the coach doesn't like and gets suspended, the band director can do the same to HMB members. He hasn't yet (I don't think), but this is the leverage he had when he asked the beer band leader to stop.

I guess I do not see a problem with this at all......sounds like fun to me

 

[HawkInGopherland]

Says the man who thinks nothing about plonking down $200+ for a pair of jeans with fancy pants stitching on the ass pockets.

HEY!!!!!!