Half-Time Show - Homecoming 2009

[®2 gwaH ytraPa]

Not sure who all attended the Homecoming Football game, but was just curious to hear other thoughts on the half-time performance by the Razorback band?

I don't typically get a chance to watch the half-time show, but did catch this one.

Thoughts?

[HomerHog®]

We already held the title for lamest by trotting out a world renowned pianist and an expensive piano to the 50 yard line, not once but twice.

We were in the running for most sterotypically embarrassing when Big Smith played jug music.

Now we hold the title for strangest with the comic book heroes show.

While we are on the subject of one of my soapbox topics, the UA Band....
Who determined that they were "the best in sight and sound"? I'm glad we don't have the losers of that competition. Along the same lines, who dubbed them "The Pride of Arkansas". Arkansas has a lot of things to be proud of. I'm not sure the UA band is #1 on that list.

How about we get good at 3-4 traditional songs that the crowd can identify, HEAR, and enjoy as part of the gameday atmosphere every game? Instead we learn these odd formations and compose strange shows that I am sure have significance to musical intellects. This is a 70,000 seat football stadium, not a music lecture hall. Pick a few stadium riffs, play'em loud and proud.

[otherhogbusguy]

The halftime "show" is only half the problem. I agree on all your points. Embarrassing to say the very least.

The other half is the "let's make the big A, march north and let the team run thru said big A...right after 7 minutes and 34 seconds of ads, special presentations and a lame video saying we are Marsh...I mean Arkansas Football.

The special presentation could be made after the National Anthem and Alma Mater, as could the video...then the song and march that A north, TEAM RUNS out...the way they do it now is just a big ol' let down.

And then halftime comes and it is confirmed...dufus's run the band.

And as for "pride" of Arkansas...maybe they think they are a pack of lions, because it cannot possibly be the regular use of that word.

That's right...I used a plural dufus. Maybe it should have been dufi, I don't know.

And also..welcome back, Brad Lidge. Thanks for nuthin'.

[Dale]

Nov 1, 2009 21:12:04 GMT -6 HomerHog® said:

We already held the title for lamest by trotting out a world renowned pianist and an expensive piano to the 50 yard line, not once but twice.

We were in the running for most sterotypically embarrassing when Big Smith played jug music.

Now we hold the title for strangest with the comic book heroes show.

While we are on the subject of one of my soapbox topics, the UA Band....
Who determined that they were "the best in sight and sound"? I'm glad we don't have the losers of that competition. Along the same lines, who dubbed them "The Pride of Arkansas". Arkansas has a lot of things to be proud of. I'm not sure the UA band is #1 on that list.

How about we get good at 3-4 traditional songs that the crowd can identify, HEAR, and enjoy as part of the gameday atmosphere every game? Instead we learn these odd formations and compose strange shows that I am sure have significance to musical intellects. This is a 70,000 seat football stadium, not a music lecture hall. Pick a few stadium riffs, play'em loud and proud.

Too true.

[A Hog Named Kyle]

Meagan and I were 2 1/2 miles up in our seats hoping for Halloween 'Thriller.' It's the best the thing I can recall them performing. The part where they sit their instruments down and dance is awesome. The key part in there being where they sit their instruments down...and stop playing. Lord knows I can't hear 'em half the time anyway.

They need to take that "Sudler award winning" sound down just a couple of small notches and increase the volume by tons. I will as long as I live never forget sitting 10 yards from them in WMS and the LSU pep band drowning them out from 100+ yards away. (Yes, I also realize that LSU just goes for being the loudest it can possibly be, but still).

OK, rant done.

[Hognoxious™]

Sorry, I liked the "Heroes" show/skit.

The crowd laughed when they were supposed to, and that "Ghostbusters!" cheer seemed to indicate a big percentage were willing to participate.

It's entertainment - it was different - and the Hogs won that one, too! What's not to like?

[clifflee4mvp™]

I hate the band. Period. Like some of the songs they play and enjoy them at basketball games, but overall they are embarrassing both in getting out played by opposing bands and by the way they act when they are on the field. Bunch of social retards running and swinging around on the goal post. Nobody cares to watch the halftimes shows anymore except band parents, former members of the band and old people. Not like you could hear them even if you wanted to.

The run out which could be very cool with a combo of the A and some piped in music blaring to get the crowd going, but it's college football and it's "all about tradition". Meanwhile teams like Virginia Tech continue to blow us out of the water having their entire stadium rocking and going nuts when their team runs in. A+M brought a real band and a real student section and HOLY CRAP they even KNEW their Alma Mater without having it on the bigscreen!

But it's all a waste of breath, because I'm young and I just don't understand.