[Rally]

I honestly don't understand all the angst, especially coming from our side.  As long as I can remember the band has always been criticized when away from home, unless it's a pep rally sort of thing.  Until we get 19th century uniforms and start playing Souza tunes it isn't going to change.  I don't find th band nearly as entertaining as I used to, but whether that's because the band is worse now or I am older and out of touch.  I suspect the latter.  So some Iowa fans are upset and the Rose Bowl committee is following the national political correctness trend;  so what?  Let's move on.  Nothing to see here.  And nothing changes.  The summer before I entered Stanford I had to see an orthopedic surgeon.  I told him I was going to Stanford.  He drug his diploma out of a closet and told me it was going to stay their "until the damn band comes to their sense So!"  That was 1965.

[Rally]

I honestly don't understand all the angst, especially coming from our side.  As long as I can remember the band has always been criticized when away from home, unless it's a pep rally sort of thing.  Until we get 19th century uniforms and start playing Souza tunes it isn't going to change.  I don't find th band nearly as entertaining as I used to, but whether that's because the band is worse now or I am older and out of touch.  I suspect the latter.  So some Iowa fans are upset and the Rose Bowl committee is following the national political correctness trend;  so what?  Let's move on.  Nothing to see here.  And nothing changes.  The summer before I entered Stanford I had to see an orthopedic surgeon.  I told him I was going to Stanford.  He drug his diploma out of a closet and told me it was going to stay their "until the damn band comes to their sense So!"  That was 1965.