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sorry I was referencing al the prop discussion.. I just saw about 30 secs ago that it had been split out. I'm trying to go back thru this whole thread to not miss somethign major and end up sticking my foot in my mouth.

See Texas State University for the lion's share of that recruiting from Texas. It is a HUGE pipeline to Boston right now

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SAy, is there somethign cheaper than paying 149 at once to watch during the season? SHeesh.. that is HELLA more expensive than Flo!

We have to face a brutal reality: a very unexpected casualty of 9/11 was the relatively free/easy movement across the CAN-USA border. Will all the restrictions on the US side, and even Canada cracking down (I learned that in 2003 headed to CGY for a gaming convention), it would have to make the logistics of trying to move the groups across the border repeatedly a nightmare. Those wonderful days of the 90s and backward are long gone now.

I'm an alumnus of the Ogden High Marching Band ( and a bit of Junior High as well) and remember first encountering DCI when our band went up to Edmonton for Klondike Days in the summer of 77. I think the director and one or two members were vaguely familiar with it, but the rest of us were completely ignorant. There was no Flomarching after all. We actually competed in a sanctioned event (date and scores verified thru the "FromThePressbox" website, [https://www.fromthepressbox.com/1977season see 7/19] and managed to pip past Oregon Crusaders. I was very very sad to see that they've literally just vanished into thin air. My senior year 2 of our members ended up heading to SCV after graduation, and within a year or two Ogden hosted the very first Corps Encore. I remember being particularly blown away by the whole look and mythos of Phantom Regiment. I was so thrilled to see as I poked around the interwebz this summer that Utah finally had an actual corps, after 20_ years of American Fark dominating HS marching band competition. Much luck to your kiddo, and I couldn't be happier/prouder at their showing this year! Beaten only by 6 much older experienced corps in Marion, and then squeaking right up to the line of qualifying for semis! 🥳 Sorry, but while I love them to death, Calgary should not have been in the actual competition track for semis. However, this sets up next year as having a very high bar to try and achieve similar results. 😬😁

GIven that Golden Empire is really only an extension of Bakersfield College, I don't think we'll ever see them pushing for top echelon and/or a bigger tour/finals

Apparently corps members and other smartalecks are referring to that as the "Mosh Pit" 😳😁

The one dude did get roughed up quite a bit... luckily he survived 🤭

HOLY SHIZNIT.. Only in that FInals Week PR video did I finally get a clear enough look to see that the Chevron is indeed on all of the musician Costumes (not the guard)... on the top of that sash over the shoulder. It's easy to be fooled into thinking it's another part of the Criss-cross pattern.

Hot having any actual ties to Rockford or the corps in particular, I did sort of become a stan of them aya back in the early 80s when I first saw them perform at Corps Encore. I was incrementally more and more excited as the summer went on. But I will have ot play devil's advocate a tiny bit. From the moment the crowd jumped up for the Chevron push, until Brandt's closing comment, was however long mentioned above. BUT, to be honest about it, while the folks may have remained standing, there was 20 -25 seconds where they weren't broadly applauding, as they were waiting for the final moments. So standing, yes, but a gap in the actual "ovation" portion. Just feel like I have to be fair to the SCV Babylon, Madison Empire, and Phantom Spartacus shows. 😎

it balances out the LOS marquee listing Phantom as being from Rosemont.. [side note: have you seen just how tiny Rosemont is ???] Cavaliers list their HQ as being in the ROsemont Public Safety bldg. WIsh they had at least a placard on the sign outside.

They would have blown the roof off, except Troopers went first and blasted it nearly all the way back to Casper. They wanted a bigger practice hall 😛 Have you seen the tiny building they use in Casper? I Do think it's cool that there is a community institution of Troopers Bingo LOL Phantom for some reason, has it office in a big warehouse, with no visible signage I can spot. Sort of makes me sad. I mean build a huge fricking Chevron statue out front or something!

Overseers in charge of slaves building the Pyramids/Great Wall of China: "No one wants to work anymore!!" SRSLY, age old complaint about work ethic LOLOL

#GiantOrangeCatToy Lets get it trending! WE CAN DOO EEETTT!!! 🤭