viva la band (live super bowl blog)
The Super Bowl really is the Super Bowl of marching band performances: dancers, stunt masters, drill teams and drumbeats -- precision switching and intricate choreography. It's dazzling, and almost hypnotic, but maybe I've been under the newsroom's fluorescent light bank too long.
I was in marching band for exactly two practices when I was in junior high school -- they needed cymbals players, and I had a persuasive friend. But I ended up sticking to the violin after I discovered I couldn't blame my mistakes on the instrument being out of tune.