One of the few PREGAME activities that I actually make it a point to BOO is the drumline. Not that they can hear me voicing my anguish way up in the nosebleeds, but giving the drumline the ’berries does make me feel good. The reaction of the fans after the drumline does their thing is typically one of not caring or not even noticing. In my area of the stadium, beer acquisition and consumption are far more important to most fans. While the drumline isn’t really Ron Turner’s fault, I think we can find a way to blame him somehow.
Other NFL teams have smoking hot cheerleaders with fake tits and glorious asses running around down there, and I have to sit through several “songs” by the drumline per game, usually during pregame and halftime. Sigh.
And what is the drumline really? A bunch of ex high school band members from the ‘burbs who are more than likely liquored up to the gills, thrilled as all get out to get a field pass for “banging on their drums all day” as Todd Rundgren used to say. Maybe these guys are the grown up version of the bums outside Soldier Field who bang on the turned upsidedown buckets.
Sure, this is much cheaper than having a dance squad (I wonder if the guys do it for free) but we should just do without – that is cheaper yet as the Bears wouldn’t have to print some 20 odd field passes for them. From my seats with the other peasants in the West Upper Deck I can’t understand or hear what the f*ck they are doing anyways. At least if we had cheerleaders I would bring my binocs, take a gander, and get two or three minutes of pleasure from that rather than hearing the drum echoes bounce all around the stadium, forming the equivalent of sonic oatmeal.
Frankly, they could be easily replaced with one more Metallica or AC/DC song in the pregame and I would be happy with that.
This video is so awesome – it is the pregame for the Bears Eagles last year and when they are done you can hear almost exactly one person clap, and the whole time the drumline is doing WHATEVER IT IS THAT THEY ARE DOING, the whole stadium is talking and doing other things. They should just be shitcanned.
Ha ha that is awesome.
At first I thought you made that drumline video yourself but then I realized you would have heard us booing them the whole time in the background. Plus there is no way we could watch them for 56 seconds
Plus we would never pay the price to sit in the seats where that video was taken from.
Whoever wrote this is just a moron. Thats all I really can say. Obviously you have a ton of time on your hands to just knock the bears drumline. GET A LIFE
Mike – this post is my pride and joy so I have to respond. Probably the single biggest waste of money that you will see on any gameday at Soldier Field is, in fact, the drumline. If the Bears would take that money (and admittedly more) and put a team of cheerleaders on the sidelines EVERYONE in the stands would LOVE it. Right now NOBODY cares about the dumbass drumline.
My guess is that you are a member of the drumline because I can’t fathom anyone else defending it for any reason (for an example of their irrelevancy, please listen to the reaction to them after they play in the video above).
So wait. You are just sitting there listening to them enough to bash them. Do you go to the games alone. Do you have no friend/life. Or can you and your friends not come up with a stimulating enough conversation because your brain feels too tired, so you just pick something thats in front of you and pick out the flaws in it. (even though you cannot clearly do any of the things the drumline does) Maybe gain a more positive outlook. and maybe a girlfriend or something. I don’t know whatever gets your jollies. And I am not on the drumline. So suck on that. Love you.
Oh and metallica and AC/DC suck.
You waste countless hours of your pathetic life stuffing your face with hot dogs and beer and acting all superior from way up in the cheap seats, where you can’t see anything from anyways. You presume to speak for everyone, that “NOBODY cares about the dumbass drumline” I can assure you, that even on this pathetic blog it’s obvious that people do care. in fact, right now the comments lean in my favor. By the comment count it would seem that what people really don’t care about is you and your blog.
Oh, and you quote Todd Rundgren… really? Are you Canadian or something, I mean seriously. (no offense Todd, but no one knows who you are) Why don’t you just stay home, catch the game on your old 20″ tv, where you can listen to all the Metallica and AC/DC you want. You can even listen to some Utopia. (that’s Todd Rundgren for all you normal people)
I’m not even sure why I’m wasting my time writing this, it’s not like anybody will read it on this blog.
Has John left the basement of his parent’s house yet?
I don’t think he lives in the basement – he lives in the garage – so he can bang on his drums without waking them up.
God knows how the whole “drum line” thing is taking the world of sports by storm. I heard the Dallas Cowboys were going to dump their damn girls and hire some dudes to drum in the corner with terrible acoustics. The fans are DEMANDING it.
Perhaps we could just rename the blog “save the drum line” now that Ron is gone!
haha I just looked back on this post and can’t believe that there are actually people here who think the drumline adds value to their gameday experience. I thought the video above said it all, but I guess there are actually two or three folks who would check the “very satisfied” box on the Bears fan survey if asked about this particular thing. This has got to be the best comment thread ever.
I have a feeling that more than one drumline member chimed in here and is trying to protect their field level gameday pass, but I am far too lazy and don’t care enough to do the investigating work to back that up.
And John, by the way, I would never, ever, ever eat anything in Soldier Field, that is rule number one for attending a Bear game. You can thank me later.
For the record, many of the people who are in the Bears drumline are people who have marched at the DCI (Drum Corps International) level. These are all incredibly accomplished musicians that put a good amount of time into their trade.
Now I can’t say that everyone wants them there, but I can say that I enjoy the drumline. I have also never been part of a drumline so you can’t pin that one on me.
And we have a drumline because the Virginia McCaskey doesn’t like cheerleaders and wants something else to do entertain the fans (which a lot of people enjoy).
Cheerio
user – I believe you when you say that the drum bangers are fine musicians. What they put on the field is, however, ridiculous, as witnessed by the two people that care about them. We need cheerleaders, plain and simple, hopefully we will get them after the McCaskets are gone.
Dan,
“this post is my pride and joy” ?!?!?
Really? All of your years on this Earth and THIS is your pride and joy? I can’t imagine what you think of the shit you deposit in the bathroom, which is where your insightful assesment of the Bears Drumline belongs.
You probably go to high school football games and “boo” the high school marching bands that take the field during pregame and halftime. That’s OK, I can assure you that they don’t give a shit what you think. They are proud of what they do, and they do not need, nor desire, your validation.
By the way, as for your video- someone likes the drumline enough to take a video of it and post it on YouTube, so your blanket statement that “nobody cares” is in valid right there. The reason you can only hear one person clapping is because it cuts right at the end. There was only enough time to get one clap in. But a brilliant person such as yourself should have been able to figure that out. Plus, it’s a stadium that seats 61,500. Do you really think that the eight people immediatly surrounding this person would be indicative of the entire stadium?
Easily the best thread/comments ever. Glad you could stop by Eric.