First off, this is obvious MIami behavior only egged on by the dainty downward wrist, illegible, false wealth bragging UM TD rings and turnover chain.
But, at the same time, I’ve witnessed some of this band parade, walkway blocking, ******** personally. My brother is a big ND fam, so my fiancé and I went to watch the domers versus FSU in tally (fun to watch FSU lose). My now wife and I were wearing very obnoxious (and justified) anti-clown shirts in bright orange and blue.
Anyway, we are crossing one of the concrete planked areas from a bathroom or something and a ND band leader slams between us, immediately followed by like 8 band security as the drums start coming closer but weren’t there yet. Due to my wife wearing the awesome (though admittedly obnoxious) shirt, FSU fans start harassing her while I’m on the other side of a now full band drumming and chanting “hear come the Irish”. But, since they were in formation, there was this band mentality of no one can cross them, even if you avoid everyone of the ND tube suckers and blowers.
At first I didn’t know to expect it (having never witnessed this weird pack band behavior) and waited for a nearby gap in the band. When I went to quickly cross. It was nearly chaos, as those behind the gap ran up (to my surprise at the band aggressiveness as I assumed much of what is mentioned here re bands being hairy oysters). Anyway, after a moment of surprise I was pissed and just barged through. Maybe that section of the band were the weaker clarinet dickheads. I don’t recall. But I recall lots of swearing and mass hysteria about me cutting through the so so important, seemingly 1/2 mile long band line to not let my fiance get yelled at by FSU twatwaffles on the other side.
So, I’m not defending these Miami pricks, but a band trying to assert its authority - by simply blocking the path for 5-10 minutes like a 2 mile an hour moving train crossing - are also complete dickwads. I get there are 500 of them or so, but let people pass every 50 or so feet. Damn. Your just the band and no one came to see you (even if it is better than pumped in music). You also aren’t some venerable military unit or queens f’ing guard that is impermiable.
Side note- I opened this thread looking to just add on the UM bashing, then remembered I kind of hate bands. Maybe I went too far?