Stanford’s band, never shy about doing weird things for no apparent reason, added another such weirdness to its growing catalog before the Cardinal’s game against Oregon, sending out a band member in a dinosaur suit to perform the national anthem.
At Stanford, dinosaur with trumpet leads band in ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’
Oh, Stanford band. You are still the Stanford band.
Stanford's trombone player to lead the national anthem in a dinosaur costume pic.twitter.com/d9a3fwfZe8
— Todd Husak (@ToddHusak) November 15, 2015 If you can’t tell without squinting (we couldn’t!): That’s actually a trumpet, not a trombone. (A trombone would have been far funnier, wouldn’t it?)
Previously in Stanford's band doing wacky stuff: "Ruining" the 2013 Rose Bowl with an "ode to cheese" for opponent Wisconsin, "ruining" the 2014 Rose Bowl with a tribute to Snapchat, maybe smuggling alcohol into an NCAA Tournament game in tubas, mocking the Ohio State band's august Script Ohio tradition by spelling out "OH NO," and, earlier on Saturday, committing the greatest atrocity of them all by using Pac-Man in a show and reminding the world that Pixels was a movie.
ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt sums up the appeal of the Stanford band perfectly:
@ToddHusak @KegsnEggs still lead the world in the least amount of f's ever given. Running count is zero
— Scott Van Pelt (@notthefakeSVP) November 15, 2015 See More:
