Glancing at the headline again this morning, I'm thinking, oh, I don't know, maybe 75 fans ejected should alarm me (though the only thing that interests me here is how uninteresting it felt to me on first look).
Madison.com reports:
Seventy-six fans were ejected from the stadium and 13 were arrested during the game....76? The headline says 75... oh... "More than 75..." OK... so... not fake news. 76 is, indeed, more than 75. As I'm puzzling over these numbers out loud, Meade is adding a level of difficulty to my blogging by singing — loudly — "More than 75 trombones led the big parade/With more than a hundred & nine cornets close at hand...."
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They were followed by more than three rows of the beyond-finer virtuosos....
Huskers v. Badgers this week in Lincoln and I’m going. I can assure you that NO Husker fan will be arrested at the game and I highly doubt anyone will be ejected.
You see dear Meadehouse, we Nebraskans have class and you don’t. (Borrowed from “The Parent Trap.”)
Actually, Husker fans are near suicidal about this season and the rough start of Favorite Son Coach Scott Frost.
in (regretful) defense of your newspaper
76 were (just) ejected.... 13 MORE were ejected, in handcuffs
76 boneheads that must have paid
With 110 Iowa fans close at hand
They were followed by rows and rows
Of the finest drunk assholes
The dream of every Badger fan
Seventy six drunk louts led the big parade
One hundred and ten sloshed fans guitared the air
Follow by rows and rows of houligans and hos
The cream of every drunk tank in the land....
If more than 75 trombonists marched around the stadium more than 6 times, would the walls come tumblin' down?
They were ejaculated from the stadium. Bacchanal is bacchanal.
Wake me up when fans are ejected by throwing them out over the top of the stadium.
I remember — back in the 80s — when fans passed furniture up the rows to the top and over the edge to fall to the street. That was considered hilarious.
OK yes. You and Meade were indeed made for each other.
Our Beloved Professor Althouse asked...
Wake me up when fans are ejected by throwing them out over the top of the stadium.
As Lizzy Warren would say: I have a plan for that!
I've only been to Camp Randall Stadium twice. Once was a Packers game, pre season, cant remember who they played, and an Iowa Game. I love the atmosphere around the stadium. The Packer game was fun. The Iowa Game. That was way different. We were with a group of about 60 and our ticket were scattered all over. So the better half and I were alone in our Black and Gold gear. Iowa Kicked the Badgers up and down the field in the fist half. The banter was friendly? banter back and forth did't last long and Wisconsin looked worse and worse. The most vocal Badger fans bailed before halftime. Not sure how I would have been treated if the tables were reversed. That said I love the place. Will be back at the first opportunity.
The fans getting ejected? Yea, that's to common. "alcohol may have been involve" as the news men are apt to explain.
Novemberfest in Madison? Weren't you guys satisfied with Octoberfest? I suspect Budweiser is behind this. Did anyone see Clydesdales pulling a wagon with an Anheuser-Busch logo?
The fans getting ejected? Makes me imagine some sort of catapult.
Thank you for the Music Man! I had been having a really lousy morning and that cheered me up.
Go, Go, Section O.
I'll give the journalists the benefit of the doubt here. I'm guessing they knew the 76 number, but didn't know if there were more than that.
So, in that case, would you write:
At least 76 ...
or
More than 75 ...
?
I think I'd go with the former, but it's a matter of personal choice. 75 is one of those round-ish numbers that looks good in a headline.
Now, if you'll pardon me, I need to go. After all ...
The Wells Fargo man is comin' down the street and he must be bringin' somethin' special just for me.
regarded it as a place where revelers go and get rowdy.
Like the University of Illinois football team.
The overwhelming majority were not students. That's sads
Meade is awesome.
"More than 75 trombones led the big parade/With more than a hundred & nine cornets close at hand...."
Oddly, the finale reprise of the song is on YouTube, the full song in the middle of the film is not.
Got to say this "Meade" fella sounds quite disruptive. But in a fun way.
Thanks. I like to think of it as Creative Disruption.
Joseph Schumpeter?, you might ask.
No. D. J. Trumpeter!
This really cracked me up because I will occasionally belt out "76 Trombones", too, along with "Everything's coming up roses" in Ethel merman's big voice to annoy my family. And it does!
Watching that clip also made me think of the stink right now with Scorsese and his dividing line between film and movies. Lots going on in "The Music Man." Would Martin say it was that era's Marvel Blockbuster type entertainment or a "film?" Cinema?
My beloved cousin got kicked out just for being the bodypass-ee.
Body passing, "O Sucks! O Sucks!" "N Sucks P! N Sucks P!" Cup fights. Mass rowing.
Good times, good times. . . . . .
Now the students line up outside and parade in in order. Lo, how the mighty have fallen.
The illustration of the Bacchanalia is nice enough, but how come we only see the half-clad maidens from the rear? Seems unfair.
I guess you had to be there.
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