Bob Barker: the unlikeliest of traditions dies with Barker’s real death

“Did you hear that Bob Barker died?”

It was the staple hoax of every drum corps summer. It was a tribute to our gullibility as members with news from the “real world” when we were living within the drum corps bubble. And it was something that spread, annually, across many drum corps each summer. But how did this annual “tradition” get started? Chalk it up to a couple of Bluecoats who wanted to test the waters on how far a rumor could spread in a drum corps summer.

Read the rest of the article here.