Cornhusker Marching Band Subway Art {College Football Tailgate Link Party}

It’s game day and that means another week of our Col­lege Foot­ball fun! We’re gear­ing up for a trip back to Nebraska soon, which always makes me nostalgic–especially in the fall dur­ing foot­ball sea­son! So, I thought I’d share a lit­tle of my band love for this week’s Col­lege Foot­ball Tail­gate post!

A few weeks ago I shared a lit­tle bit more about why I’m such a huge Nebraska foot­ball fan. A large part of that is because I was a mem­ber of the Corn­husker March­ing Band all 4 years of col­lege! Being part of the band was SO incred­i­ble and I have many mem­o­ries from those days that I will cher­ish always. Another blog­ger & for­mer band mem­ber (we were there at the same time), shares the same sen­ti­ments I have.

Only a few peo­ple know that it was actu­ally attend­ing a foot­ball game that finally pushed me to decide to attend the Uni­ver­sity of Nebraska. Com­ing from Ari­zona, it’s not exactly a com­mon school choice. But, my dad and I attended a game in Octo­ber of my senior year of high school. I was in awe. Com­pletely blown away. When the band took the field and 80,000+ peo­ple roared from them, I got goose­bumps and teary eyed. I’d never seen any­thing like it and knew I wanted to be a part of it. So, I went out-of-state to school, audi­tioned for the band, and marched clar­inet my fresh­man year!

My sopho­more year then, the band finally got a pit per­cus­sion sec­tion. So, the rest of my time in the band was spent in the pit as part of Nebraska’s drum­line. And, it was SO awe­some! Tons of work (we learned & mem­o­rized a new show almost every week), lots of time (usu­ally about 20 hours a week), and tons of fun! One of the xylo­phones was like my first baby!   The home­com­ing shows were always some­thing extra fun and the pit dressed up in cos­tume. Moulin Rouge was my favorite! My senior year extra mem­o­rable — host­ing two ESPN’s Col­lege Game Days, play­ing Notre Dame, the post-September 11th game (which is one of the most mem­o­rable music per­for­mances of my life), play­ing at Disney’s Cal­i­for­nia Adven­ture, and of course, the Rose Bowl! March­ing in the Rose Bowl Parade & per­form­ing dur­ing the National Cham­pi­onship game was unreal! In fact, dur­ing pregame at the Rose Bowl, Regis (yes, that Regis) stood right in front of my xylo­phone the whole time! Such good memories!

So, since I love the Nebraska foot­ball sub­way art print­able so much, I decided that I had to have one just for all things Corn­husker March­ing Band! Here’s what that looks like: If you hap­pen to want a copy for your own per­sonal use, feel free to com­ment and I’m happy to share! GO BIG RED!!!

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 Col­lege Foot­ball Sat­ur­day Tail­gate Link Party