The Play. Big Game. 1982
Posted on 09/27/2004 10:26:30 AM PDT by Colofornian
Old news. Posted last week.
Ahhh, Stanford. Alma mater of the Klintons' youngun.
Hypocritical? Yes. Funny?......Yes.
Did a title search. Didn't come up.
My "mock everyone" ethos thankfully immunizes me against charges of hypocrisy when I mock the Mormons.
They have no problems mocking anyone's religion, conservatives, etc. but they won't go after anything that is PC.
bttt
The Stanford band is permanently banned from playing at Notre Dame after they thought it would be fun to portray the Pope having sex with a nun and made fun of the Irish potato famine during a halftime show at Stanford.
The band should be glad it was banned, as the ND fans had coordinated an Irish greeting of sorts for those precocious pricks upon their arrival in South Bend.
After this check with Redbob, self styled previous post police, PPP.......
Perhaps the Mormons should gently delete that part of their 'doctrine' if they don't want it showing up in halftime shows and other neat places of entertainment.
This apology is as real as Clinton's. They apologize and then continue the same aberant behavior.
They should have been more equal opportunity and thrown in a jibe at the 7th Day Adventists (and all the other wacky protestant sects that always predict the End Times within the founder's lifespan).
When I was at Stanford in the early 1970s, the band members at all levels were self-avowed seekers of publicity at all costs. I knew a number of band members, and they lived by the maxim that any publicity, no matter how "bad," was good publicity. A story like this is mother's milk to them. I thought they had become boring by the time I was there, whereas they were interesting for the intellectual novelty of the half-time shows, and the rocking Dollies, in the late '60s. They dwelt way to much on scatology and phallic metaphors for my tastes - and the few times I have seen the band since, not much has changed. And you couldn't find if you tried a more tedious, smug, arrogant, condescending, left-wing pack of spoiled brats than the Stanford Band...except at the Stanford Daily - but the Daily was a whole different league of stupidity.
In case you hadn't heard, they did. Well over a century ago.
The quickest way to get booted from the Mormon Church is to speak in defense of the doctrine of polygamy.
There are lots of legitimate criticisms to be made of the Mormon Church. The promotion or toleration of polygamy is not one of them, other than historically.
They were almost banned from the Coliesum after Stanford fans threw cups of ice at Traveler (USC's mascot white horse) and caused the horse to throw its rider ("Tommy Trojan"), seriously injuring him.
Sounds like the AD screwed the pooch on this one.
Nothing much different than you would hear from a stand-up comic or editorial cartoonist.
And opposing fans always boo when they are getting skewered by the Band.
BFD.
I think it is just their way to get back at the world for all of the public ridicule they took in High School about being in the band.
The Play. Big Game. 1982
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