Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
November 26, 2008
Yale Band Eats Moose

Yale suspends the YPMB over obscenities written on a prop during the halftime show at Harvard:

Adding insult to the injury of Harvard's 10-0 defeat Saturday in The Game, which was held in Boston, Yale University's director of bands, Thomas C. Duffy, suspended the marching band Monday because of a "completely inappropriate and highly offensive" prop used during the halftime show, according to the Yale Daily News.

The newspaper quoted an e-mail Duffy sent to band members: "I was personally embarrassed and offended, and professionally compromised. I am suspending the Yale Precision Marching Band from all activities and performances, effective as of this very moment."

It was unclear what element of the band's prank crossed the line, but The Daily News said the band used as a prop "a graffiti-covered replica of the Berlin Wall, (which) was the centerpiece of a halftime show that portrayed Harvard as a Communist empire."

Friends, this is what happens when you send your children to a safety school.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:10 AM | Other | TrackBack (0)
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Speaking as a member of a scramble band, I can tell you what really happened: someone at Harvard got their panties in a twist and yelled about the harmless show, Duffy sold out the band to cover his ass, and America gets just a little bit less fun.

Scramble on, Yalies.

Posted by: Gordon at November 26, 2008 10:17 AM

Ohhhhh SNAP David :-)

Posted by: Mike at November 26, 2008 01:33 PM
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