Slow Adam Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 I was there in Orlando on finals night in 1996, when I was too young, and too new, to appreciate what I just saw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cop Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 (edited) "AND IN THIRD PLACE....." My biggest "I was there" : was finals night, hearing the "undefeated" BLUE DEVILS called in third.....and we hadn't heard our corps score called yet... Feels good huh Phantom? side note: Our guard staff was at the truck pulling all our show flags off the poles and setting all the guard equipment on the truck. K.C. Michaels said that they were nearly done and he could hear the scores being announced, no big deal.... But K.C. told the guard staff. "UM, you guys, they haven't called Madison yet, and they passed the Cadets and Cavies..." The staff froze......you see, if we won we would need all our equipment for a VICTORY RUN real quick. The staff started to put the flags and guard equipment back together as fast as they could...using the old tape they pulled off.... Each one of our show flags used a weight ontop to counter the flag weight.....the staff just shoved any weight into any poll...The equipment looked like 1st graders had assembled them... When we did our victory run we were so full of adrenalin, we were yelling as the weights flew off our flag polls and the tape was half hanging on.... It was a MESS and we laughed all the way to the bank!!! Edited December 5, 2008 by Cop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scouttimp Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 "AND IN THIRD PLACE....." My biggest "I was there" : was finals night, hearing the "undefeated" BLUE DEVILS called in third.....and we hadn't heard our corps score called yet... Feels good huh Phantom? side note: Our guard staff was at the truck pulling all our show flags off the poles and setting all the guard equipment on the truck. K.C. Michaels said that they were nearly done and he could hear the scores being announced, no big deal.... But K.C. told the guard staff. "UM, you guys, they haven't called Madison yet, and they passed the Cadets and Cavies..." The staff froze......you see, if we won we would need all our equipment for a VICTORY RUN real quick. The staff started to put the flags and guard equipment back together as fast as they could...using the old tape they pulled off.... Each one of our show flags used a weight ontop to counter the flag weight.....the staff just shoved any weight into any poll...The equipment looked like 1st graders had assembled them... When we did our victory run we were so full of adrenalin, we were yelling as the weights flew off our flag polls and the tape was half hanging on.... It was a MESS and we laughed all the way to the bank!!! My $.02 I was there when the front line had to RUN back to the truck and unload EVERYTHING which had been put away for the trip back to Madison, screaming at the top of our lungs the whole time. good times, folks! BTW, I still am not ready to give my actual response to the original post...this one doesn't count! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarnia sam Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 I was in Marion... when it rained. Good memories folks. Regards, John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thirdcoast Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 I was sitting back sideline in the trees hanging out with some girls in Whitewater when all of a suddun you hear the crowd and look on the field, GARFIELD was on and there were a whole bunch of kids falling during the Z- pull. Oh my GOD, it was like dominos each one falling, kinda surreal. Jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drumcorpsfan471 Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 I was there when the fans booed us off the field and booed us back onto the field because of some field paint.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn craig Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 I was in Marion...when it rained. Good memories folks. Regards, John I saw my first drum corps show becuase a church organist couldn't go on Sunday's rain date so my brother took me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flervinuveling Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 In was in Stillwater in 1986 too, watching my corpsmates get sick as we warmed up. We lost about 35 folks (sick not dead)to food poisoning that night and had to do a standstill. The next the Minn. DHHS didn't want us to leave the state, but the Rockford show was that night. After some artful negotiation we were allowed to leave the state with a police escort to the Wi. border. We then high tailed to Ill. were we picked up another police escort to Rockford. Funny thing, being young I didn't call my parents when all of this happened, however it made the AP and they read about it in the paper that morning. They weren't planning on coming to the show but htey wanted to see if their son was still alive. I got chewed out pretty bad for not calling. why'd you need a police escort? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitedawn Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 i was there when everyone on DCP was apparently present to see the garfield pile up in 84. seriously, though i was there when the cadets won three straight drum titles. i was there when crown's dm had to go home due to a death in the family and they had to plug in a guy from the hornline for a show. awesome job, dude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skajerk Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 i was there when crown's dm had to go home due to a death in the family and they had to plug in a guy from the hornline for a show. awesome job, dude. When did this happen and how'd the corps handle it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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