At MSU’s nationally televised football game against Notre Dame, the Fighting Irish band made a spectacular presentation at Spartan Stadium.
There was no degrading of young women by dressing them in Las Vegas sequined costumes and having them strutting around tossing clubs; just good, well-played music and 10 Scotsmen in colorful costumes.
I don’t understand the Fighting Irish wearing Scottish costumes, but it does suggest that perhaps we should ditch the flags, stop degrading the women and have half a dozen, 6-foot-6 men in Spartan warrior costumes, marching with the band. It would be far more representative of MSU fighting spirit.
Along those same lines of change, how about getting music in the spirit of the game? At the beginning of the game, after getting the crowd into a killer frenzy with several renditions of the “Michigan State Fight Song,” the band broke into something from the Black Eyed Peas (isn’t that a vegetable?).
It killed the crowd’s enthusiasm. What does that have to do with football? Also, what about the lame 1960s act of a smoking rocket with new chords and notes? That was totally inappropriate. What a missed opportunity.
Warren Wood,
John Hannah Professor of Geological Sciences and MSU alumnus
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