# Life imitates art - and the results aren't pretty **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 15, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-and-the-results-arent-pretty/72533 "2001-07-15T03:03:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-and-the-results-arent-pretty/72533/1 "2001-07-15T03:03:11Z")
In “American Pie”, Don McLean sang: “The players tried to take the field The marching band refused to yield…” In [this case](http://libpub.dispatch.com/cgi-bin/documentv1?DBLIST=cd01&DOCNUM=30746&TERMV=30899:8:30907:8:46232:8:46240:8:), yielding would have been a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-and-the-results-arent-pretty/72533/2 "2001-07-15T03:18:27Z")
Hm, it happened at my Alma Mater. Perhaps this incident gives a little insight into explanatins for our football team’s less-than-impressive standing… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-and-the-results-arent-pretty/72533/3 "2001-07-15T03:34:29Z")
ROTHLMAO! That’s something one might find in a B movie script. Binkowski sure seems to have some “issues”. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-and-the-results-arent-pretty/72533/4 "2001-07-15T03:51:42Z")
Wow. You this means that somewhere a sousaphone player _knows_ they missed their chance to bean a football player with a collosal musical insturment. Other suggestions. A trombone would be able to clothesline a charging football player nicely. I’m pretty amazed that the players followed the order. I don’t have much respect for over blown sports, but most of the people I have met that are involved in them aren’t 280lb bags of raging meat. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-and-the-results-arent-pretty/72533/5 "2001-07-15T04:03:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Medea’s Child \* > \*\*but most of the people I have met that are involved in them aren’t 280lb bags of raging meat. \*\* Well, I don’t play sports, but you’ve obviously heard the rumors. And they’re coming to KC next week. I think they’re probably an even match for the Chiefs. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-and-the-results-arent-pretty/72533/6 "2001-07-15T04:13:57Z")
Hehe…just the [opposite](http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/the_play.html) happened back in '82 during the Stanford-UC Berkeley “Big Game”. > [@](#): > > Alright here we go with the kick-off. Harmon will probably try to squib it and he does. Ball comes loose and the Bears have to get out of bounds. Rogers along the sideline, another one…they’re still in deep trouble at midfield, they tried to do a couple of…the ball is still loose as they get it to Rogers. They get it back to the 30, they’re down to the 20…Oh the band is out on the field!! He’s gonna go into the endzone!!! He got into the endzone!! Will it count? The Bears have scored but the bands are out on the field. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-and-the-results-arent-pretty/72533/7 "2001-07-15T04:17:40Z")
There was also that play between California and Stanford in 1982, in which Cal won on a 5-lateral play. The player scoring the touchdown spiked the football inside a Stanford band member’s tuba. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-and-the-results-arent-pretty/72533/8 "2001-07-15T04:18:46Z")
I meant knocking into trombone player, although stuffing it in a tuba would have been much funnier.