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re: LSU marching band facing accusations of being "classless"

Posted on 10/16/22 at 7:59 am to
Posted by johnnyrocket
Ghetto once known as Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2013
9790 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 7:59 am to
LSU W
Florida L at home

Don’t care about them crying about their Tom Petty tribute.
Posted by ibldprplgld
Member since Feb 2008
26064 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 8:09 am to
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Really? Petty is from Gainsville and actually worked for the University of Florida on their grounds and maintenance crew before he hit it big in music. Google "Tom Petty Tree"


His wiki page says he claimed he never remembered planting that tree at UF.

This tradition is the most contrived thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
Posted by sportjunkie69
Member since Nov 2012
2234 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 8:11 am to
Bunch of methnecks up in that crowd.
Posted by TexasTiger89
Houston, TX
Member since Feb 2005
25638 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 8:47 am to
The band plays to a schedule that is worked out with the Florida band. Florida fans are too stupid to understand their own band and PA operator are part of this.
Posted by lsuhunt555
Teakwood Village Breh
Member since Nov 2008
38798 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 8:47 am to
Florida fans sure do seem like pussies when it comes to Tom Petty.
Posted by LuckySo-n-So
Member since Jul 2005
22306 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 8:58 am to
I kind of figure that Tom Petty didn’t really give two shits about sports, much less the Florida Gators football team.

When he was growing up, the Gators sucked at football. Petty was already a rock legend by the time the Gators became consistently good.

I agree with those who think this Tom Petty/Florida bullshite is contrived.

Can someone produce one authentic photo of Petty in any UF clothing?
Posted by Lakeboy7
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2011
25312 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:02 am to
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their fake Tom Petty 3 year old "tradition".



Its so forced and awkward. Never saw TP at a UF game or even a hat or tshirt when he was alive.
Posted by ccomeaux
LA
Member since Jan 2010
8184 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:04 am to
F Fl
Posted by Harry Morgan
Member since Sep 2019
9193 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:08 am to
frick Florida. Would have been a better tribute if they had rolled his arse out to the 50.
Posted by Sir Fury
Member since Jan 2015
4864 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:09 am to
Class? CLASS!?! this is coming from a school whose football team carried around tiger skeleton on the sideline during a game after Mike VI died.
Posted by Damone
FoCo
Member since Aug 2016
32966 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:10 am to
The Tom Petty bullshite is so hilarious to me. He had zero connection to the school, much less the football team, outside of growing up in Gainesville. I hope LSU ruins that cringe “tradition” every year.
Posted by Tiger1988
Houston
Member since May 2016
27942 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:15 am to
Again, how does that make him tied to the university? He got a paycheck for a summer and he is sacred?
Posted by GoldenGuy
Member since Oct 2015
12460 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:19 am to
If the band has grown a spine again, can we get them to play Neck?
Posted by BilbeauTBaggins
probably stuck in traffic
Member since May 2021
7140 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:24 am to
Per my wife, former Tiger Band member, the director knows when the band is allowed/not allowed to play anything. That's why he's always wearing a headset throughout the game. Both bands are allowed and not allowed to play at specific times, mainly so they don't play over each other. If they were told not to play during any of the Tom Petty song, they would've been told to cut the music immediately.

Florida fans just being too dumb to know this.
Posted by touchdownjeebus
Member since Sep 2010
25319 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:29 am to
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coming from a school whose football team carried around tiger skeleton on the sideline during a game after Mike VI died.


I love LSU, a graduate and die hard, but I would laughed my arse off.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
107671 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:33 am to
You mean, the same end of 3rd quarter/beginng of 4th quarter performance the play EVERY frickING GAME?

Sorry if it drowned out the piped in music from your low talking pothead god
Posted by SirWinston
PNW
Member since Jul 2014
95699 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:36 am to
Little known fact - that is actually yours truly in that gif
Posted by BDoubleEZ
Burleson, TX
Member since Sep 2021
716 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:38 am to
HAHAHAHA Florida fans accusing anyone of being classless is ironic.
Posted by IndianInBR
L'auberge
Member since Dec 2015
3272 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:40 am to
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Really? Petty is from Gainsville and actually worked for the University of Florida on their grounds and maintenance crew before he hit it big in music. Google "Tom Petty Tree"


So they should be honoring Tom Petty the groundskeeper, put his name on the stadium or some $hit, why bring up his songs that none of the coeds even know the words to. It was weird watching them sway to songs they never heard in their lives!
Posted by ItTakesAThief
Scottsdale, Arizona
Member since Dec 2009
9818 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:42 am to
Classless is having "tom petty day" interrupt our game.

Classless was awarding the Baseball National Championship rings during the Florida LSU football game and other classless things Florid does.

We are so deep in their head they have no idea how to get us out. They constantly try to throw shade a LSU
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