Credit for this chapter/argument goes to bandgeek63 and is written from their POV (I was too lazy to change it). Thanks for the support!
Why isn't marching band a sport when it's just as hard as most sports? At some schools you have to get a sports physical for marching band. They don't really bug you if you don't turn it in, but you're supposed to. Second, it takes up most of your time in the fall just like any other sport. Third, and perhaps most damningly, it requires an INSANE amount of physical endurance! At tonight's rehearsal, our directors, who were bound and determined to make sure that the whole show was on the field moving and playing by the end of rehearsal, were drilling us in the third movement over and over and over! You'd think they'd start to slow it down a little when everyone started dropping like flies! The one girl 'died' again! (She's always passing out; they had to call an ambulance for her at our competition last Saturday. She may be very stubborn, but she's a trooper; I'll give her that!) Plus, there were two boys that eventually had to get off the field as well. Now, I am not a very athletic person, but since is my third year in marching band, i was able to put up with it because I've learned to push through. But all the people who had to get off the field tonight are in their first year, and I can guarantee you that two years ago, I wouldn't have been able to put up with that rehearsal.
So I know I don't usually do this, but I'm really excited! UC's marching band played at our high school's football game yesterday (Friday, September 26th) on their way to OSU! The coolest part is, I now have a twin in that band, I know 3 people that graduated from my school within the past two years, and I got to house 5 more! We got maybe 5 hours of sleep, then i went back to school with them so they could practice (their SUMMER UNIFORM is a polo and pants. I FEEL SO BAD! We now have athletic shorts and shirts for ours! THEY WOULD MOST LIKELY OVERHEAT IN THAT KIND OF STUFF IN SUMMER!) then came back to my house and immediately crashed for 4 hours. YEAH!