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I've found that people looking to be offended....will be.

That's true.  I've also found that people looking to offend often do.

I'll hand it to the band. They presented a show that is totally banal (and even slightly clever if you read it enough times) on paper -- one Terry could defend in court -- and managed to have Bret Musburger remark: 'oh that Stanford band had the Iowa fans boo them off the field; which is exactly what they wanted.'  There is no doubt about that reading the band's post-show tweets. ('Were the Iowa fans booing or mooing?' #sosorry #retireinaday, etc.)

Watching LSJUMB is a little like being the one sober person in a room with a wet towel under the door, open bags of Doritos all over the floor and god awful speed metal playing really loud. Everyone is laughing at their own stoner gibberish, you can't figure out what is so funny and all you want to do is leave the room.  If the band wants its audience to leave the room, mission accomplished I suppose.

Rule number one in entertainment is know your audience.  Rule number two is the audience is always right.  Is it the band's fault the audience didn't 'get it?'  Yeah, probably.

Stanford's halftime show jab seemed to make fun of Iowa in that respect, as can be seen here with this sad farm hand who gets to meet up with a cow.

I guess this is Stanford dissing farmers? Maybe? Hard to tell.

The band knows exactly what it's doing and does it well. Whether that's good or bad is subject for debate. Here's a pretty good one with perspective from both sides.

http://www.sbnation.com/2016/1/1/1069982...-bowl-iowa

Frankly I think you could replace them (the band) with a hundred randomly selected Rhesus monkeys, give those monkeys drum sticks and a few brass instruments, and there would be no noticeable degradation of musical quality or formation skills. It would certainly amp up the entertainment value.

[jacketree]

I've found that people looking to be offended....will be.

That's true.  I've also found that people looking to offend often do.

I'll hand it to the band. They presented a show that is totally banal (and even slightly clever if you read it enough times) on paper -- one Terry could defend in court -- and managed to have Bret Musburger remark: 'oh that Stanford band had the Iowa fans boo them off the field; which is exactly what they wanted.'  There is no doubt about that reading the band's post-show tweets. ('Were the Iowa fans booing or mooing?' #sosorry #retireinaday, etc.)

Watching LSJUMB is a little like being the one sober person in a room with a wet towel under the door, open bags of Doritos all over the floor and god awful speed metal playing really loud. Everyone is laughing at their own stoner gibberish, you can't figure out what is so funny and all you want to do is leave the room.  If the band wants its audience to leave the room, mission accomplished I suppose.

Rule number one in entertainment is know your audience.  Rule number two is the audience is always right.  Is it the band's fault the audience didn't 'get it?'  Yeah, probably.

Stanford's halftime show jab seemed to make fun of Iowa in that respect, as can be seen here with this sad farm hand who gets to meet up with a cow.

I guess this is Stanford dissing farmers? Maybe? Hard to tell.

The band knows exactly what it's doing and does it well. Whether that's good or bad is subject for debate. Here's a pretty good one with perspective from both sides.

http://www.sbnation.com/2016/1/1/1069982...-bowl-iowa

Frankly I think you could replace them (the band) with a hundred randomly selected Rhesus monkeys, give those monkeys drum sticks and a few brass instruments, and there would be no noticeable degradation of musical quality or formation skills. It would certainly amp up the entertainment value.