The university’s athletic department appeared to agree with the criticism. They do come to all the games and are out there trying to support the team.” I think they were just trying to make light of a season that really hasn’t been very much fun. “We don’t really make fun of our own team, but it’s not out of bounds - really not much is out of bounds for us. “I think the athletic department came down a little hard on them,” said Rachel Hawkins, a senior who is the student manager of Harvard’s band. Members of the team reacted angrily when they heard it. It is a version of the song the band sings only in informal settings, on the bus or at Orgo Night - the band’s traditional annual performance on campus before the final exam in organic chemistry. So at the end of the loss to Cornell, as the team walked off the field in Ithaca, N.Y., and passed in front of the band in the bleachers, the band launched into the altered lyrics. This season has included a 37-0 loss to Dartmouth and a 44-21 loss to Albany. The Lions are 0-9, in the middle of their worst season since their 44-game losing streak that stretched from 1983 to 1988. The Columbia band got into trouble by offending its own team, even if perhaps deservedly. Most come up with themes for the game, usually trying hard to offend the opponent and sometimes making political statements. Scramble bands are equal parts music, odd costumes and boundary-pushing humor.
In the ’60s, in lieu of a more traditional marching band, Ivy League colleges and a few others turned to a more informal - and decidedly less expensive - form of halftime entertainment. Stanford and Columbia field two of the most famous of what are known as scramble bands. Our band would never come up with such profoundly obvious and uninspired lyrics like ‘We always lose, lose, lose by a lot, and sometimes by a little.’ ” “Also, if you are going to be ‘irreverent,’ at least be funny. “I’m glad Columbia’s band found a way to make going to football games more enjoyable for themselves - I sure know I wouldn’t want to go watch my team give up 62 points to Cornell - but have some pride in your school and respect for your players,” Samuels said in an e-mail. Cornell football game,” Delgado said. “We accept the consequences and look forward to continue to be a part of our school spirit for future athletic events.”Īccording to Michael Samuels, a Stanford senior who plays the tree in that school’s infamous band, the song ridiculing the team was a breach of band etiquette. “The Columbia University Marching Band would like to apologize to the members of our community, in particular to our fellow classmates and coaches, who were offended by the incident that occurred on November 12 at the Columbia vs. In the aftermath, the band got together and decided to apologize and did so in less-than-inspired 2011 fashion: via a statement released Thursday by the student band manager Jose Delgado. We always lose lose lose by a lot and sometimes by a little we all were winners at the start but four years has taught us all the value of just giving up, cause we really suck why are we even trying? we always lose lose lose but we take solace in our booze. The flogging came after the band changed the lyrics of “Roar, Lion, Roar” to: But this was enough to get Columbia’s band briefly barred by the university’s athletic department from Saturday’s game against Brown. Columbia’s band, after all, was responsible for both the birth control routine (in 1967) and the napalm (1972). In that vein, changing the words to a verse of the fight song to ridicule your 0-9 football team during a 62-41 loss to Cornell seems rather tame. In some of the most notable instances, bands have staged a tribute to birth control, mimicked the napalming of a Cambodian village, ridiculed the spotted owl controversy in Oregon and made fun of Notre Dame’s Catholicism by dressing the drum major in a habit and using a cross as a baton. The history of university band mischief is long and colorful, stretching back to the irreverence of the 1960s.
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