Sports Eliminated

**Roy_Macavoy** · February 14th, 2007, 01:06 AM

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I would love to see some "he-man football players" come out and try band camp in the hot sun, carry a set of 30-50 pound drums or try not to scream while standing at attention with a horn in your hands because the pain is unbearable.

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Thanks for making me laugh tonight, you just made my whole week worthwhile. I hope you are not being serious with that post. 3 a days in football, or band camp, which is harder?? In no way possible can you say that band camp is rougher, that's quite possibly the dumbest statement i have read on this forum (and i have read quite a few posts from chubz)

**imported_forrest** · February 14th, 2007, 02:42 AM

I'd like to see GC get rid of "curling" and "syncronized swimming"

February 14th, 2007, 04:56 AM

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NO OH PLEASE on your lame little excuse. By the slam your making, you've just slapped Norton band members who also play football in the face

[/ QUOTE ] This is a first- folks that play in the band and play football too. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I learn stuff on here all the time. Or maybe the squirrel is short a nut. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Be careful in that hot sun, while you are getting your horn toasted.

**fightinsquirrel** · February 14th, 2007, 12:01 PM

All my nuts are accounted for Seldom or do you go to football games? Norton has had football players in band and so has Powell Valley. Kelly won't let them be in both because it just doesn't look good in the eyes of the Indian Grand Pooh Bah...

**Slobber Knocker** · February 14th, 2007, 12:58 PM

Back again and I want to clear up some things. BAND IS NOT A SPORT! It is an art! Now even though they show some athletic moves on the sideline, cheerleading is not a sport! Competition cheerleading is a sport. In N.Va., a lot of girls compete on the cheerleading teams in competitions but they do not cheer on the sidelines because, and I quote, "there are too many girls on the sidelines and they are too ditzy!" All you coaches out there know that there is a difference between athletes and girls!
Now, I did not say that some cheerleaders were not athletic but on the sidelines, cheerleaders are not in a sport. Some of the guys that cheer (and should be on the football team my hairy knuckled self says) are just as strong as some of the linebackers on your high school teams and the girls are just as athletic as girls on a basketball team but it is not a sport until they compete against other schools.
Someone said that having a band gets you fired up. My friend if you are training since August, you look over across the field and you see someone that wants to rip your head off and you have to look in the stands and watch a band play to get fired up, you need to join the cheerleaders because that is what you are. A cheerleader!
In the four years I played I could not tell you one song the band played on the field but I do know they played the school song at pep ralleys. The bands work hard I guess sychronizing their moves, but being as athletic as a basketball, football, softball, volleyball player? Puuuhhhhhlllleeeeaaaassssss!!!!

**NotSoSilentBob** · February 16th, 2007, 10:36 AM

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I would love to see some "he-man football players" come out and try band camp in the hot sun, carry a set of 30-50 pound drums or try not to scream while standing at attention with a horn in your hands because the pain is unbearable.

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Thanks for making me laugh tonight, you just made my whole week worthwhile. I hope you are not being serious with that post. 3 a days in football, or band camp, which is harder?? In no way possible can you say that band camp is rougher, that's quite possibly the dumbest statement i have read on this forum (and i have read quite a few posts from chubz)

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Go through band camp and you might have a different opinion. Let's see you carry a 50 lb. tuba 6 hours a day for two weeks straight.

**TheBeast** · February 16th, 2007, 10:39 AM

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I would love to see some "he-man football players" come out and try band camp in the hot sun, carry a set of 30-50 pound drums or try not to scream while standing at attention with a horn in your hands because the pain is unbearable.

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Thanks for making me laugh tonight, you just made my whole week worthwhile. I hope you are not being serious with that post. 3 a days in football, or band camp, which is harder?? In no way possible can you say that band camp is rougher, that's quite possibly the dumbest statement i have read on this forum (and i have read quite a few posts from chubz)

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Gotta go with you Roy. How can you even try and compare band camp to football camp and 3 a-days. Ok you have 4-5 people carrying 30-50 lb drums, try wearing your 50 lbs all over your body along with a helmet 5 lb helmet all of which just intensifies the heat. As soon as the band memebers start wearing full padding and run (not march/walk) around hitting one another with their instruments you will have the start of an argument.

Let me also say I am not just saying this a football player, I did join the band for a while in 8th grade and am doing my comparisons having experienced both.

**sup-rbeast** · February 16th, 2007, 10:44 AM

Football teams exert more energy in stretching and agilities then they band exerts in a day.lol...there is no comparison...it's like comapring a competitive swimmer to a fat old guy doin the backfloat...yeah they're both in the water but that doesn't make them comparable...If we are gonna compare band to a sport, let's compare it to somethin other than FB...

**sup-rbeast** · February 16th, 2007, 10:51 AM

Ok...I've got this great idea!...Maybe next year after FB season wraps up all the schools can have a grudematch game to benefit both the band and the FB programs. Dress the band out in a uni and let em go 20 mins with the football team!..lol...and after it's over all the football players can use the bands instruments to play taps for the fallen band members..if there's any band dudes left to teach the players taps...then the football teams can buy some new equipment or what not with their share of the proceeds...and hopefully the bands will have enough money to pay their hospital bills...uh, this one time at band camp...lol...i kill me

**cvcgrad** · February 16th, 2007, 10:59 AM

I think Schools can elect not to have teams in particular sports.

Council High School dropped football several years ago. It may be purely coincidental, but after they dropped football, they had a really good run in basketball for a few years.

It is a bit controversial to consider dropping a sport, but I've wondered why some schools in the LPD continue to compete in some sports, including basketball. If you don't have a genuine interest from the students, parents, coaches, and fans in a particular sport, then it's not likely you're going be competitive.

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That all being said, it doesn't matter if a program is successful or not, its about providing an equal amount of programs and such, what is the proper term for that Title I or something? (I can't remember the exact listed reason but I'm sure someone can)

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