FSU’S OUTSOURCING THEIR BAND. AGAIN.
FSU’s outsourcing their band-again, though T.K. Wetherell insists it’s part of a symbolic move by the university to punish itself for its lowly gridiron performance this year. We think it’s to save money and piss on the bowl game that’s deigned to offer them a bid, since the FSU band has somewhere between 500 and 30,000 members and has to be a logistical nightmare to deal with at home games.
Moving them across the country for the Veganomics.Com Quorn Bowl would have been a pain in the ass, sure, but it would have also made the stadium look slightly less desolate. As it stands, FSU will now pay a band to show up. We nominate the following San Franciso bands and their song that best applies to FSU:
Creedence Clearwater Revival: “Fortunate Son.” Hello, Jeffy.
Dead Kennedys: “Straight A’s.” As in social science majors’ GPAs.
Train: Anything, really, since it will all suck, suck, suck, and thus cause misery and pain to whomever’s unfortunate enough to hear it.
Journey: “Who’s Crying Now”
This would be the best part of the Emerald Bowl. And it still wouldn’t be good in a non-ironic way.
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Journey cannot be bothered to play a meaningless bowl game. They are living it up in their Monterrey mansions, drinking from wine fountatins, and practicing their many non-musical craft hobbies. Theyre living like kings, I tell you, damn hell ass kings!
Comment by irishoutsider — December 13, 2025 @ 1:26 pm
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How about something from Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship? Not sure which song to choose, but the similarities in Grace Slick and Bobby Bowden’s careers are there: pretty good when in their prime (at least the Airplane days if not after), whored out for success (Grace slept with everyone and Bobby let any thug play for him), and probably should have quit a long time ago.
Comment by AllWhoYonder — December 13, 2025 @ 1:30 pm
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Except for Stephen Perry, he’s too busy trying to figure out why the Chicago White Sox guys won’t call him back anymore.
What about Everclear… “I will buy you that big house, way up in the West Hills” Sounds like the FSU Booster to Jeffy.
Comment by Whitey — December 13, 2025 @ 1:33 pm
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Arkansas freshmen WR dont like blocking for the running game -
“Our boys are used to catching 60 passes a year,” Rick Cleveland said. “They want to go to a college where they get the same opportunity. Whether they’re good enough to do that or not is a whole different question. They have to earn that.
” They are team players… but they’re saying, ‘Hey, I don’t know if I’ll be happy being in this offense, catching 10 balls a year or 15 and blocking 90 percent of the time.’”
Heres the complete article -
http://coachhal.com/blog/index.php?blog=12&title=interesting_article_about_arkansas_playe&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Comment by AUgrad — December 13, 2025 @ 1:34 pm
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Ms. Sterger Dept:
Since FSU is being cheap and outsourcing the band, will they outsource their number one fan - Ms. Sterger?
All kinds of jokes about using a local San Francisco transvestite as Ms. Sterger could be plugged in here…
but…..
if by chance I catch a portion of that game, I would prefer to see Ms. Sterger, her bosom, and her cohort of cowgirls…cowabunga..dude!
Comment by Stacy Keibler Loves Me — December 13, 2025 @ 1:52 pm
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Journey would certainly be the best part of the game, despite the lack of Steve Perry. They, instead, have another Steve (Augeri) on lead vocals now. In this opportunity, I must plug one of the best 80s videos ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwGdXZ6o2xs
Comment by BearNut — December 13, 2025 @ 1:58 pm
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Other options include Huey Lewis and the News (who, amazingly, are available) and the Stanford “Band,” who could exploit a loophole in their probation by playing for a team other than the Cardinal…
Surprisingly, you can find replica FSU Cowgirls by trolling the Marina district for about 10 minutes, dangling a $50 bill out the window of your Porsche Cayenne, so that shouldn’t be a problem.
Hell, if Bobby Bowden isn’t up to it, you could get any superannuated hippie from Berkeley with a bewildered look and incoherent voice to just stand on the sideline. The accent may not be right, but I will be willing to provide coaching in the finer points of the Birmingham dialect for a fee.
BTW I’m drunk again.
Comment by VandyJ — December 13, 2025 @ 2:02 pm
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Don’t stop believin’
Comment by Nick — December 13, 2025 @ 2:07 pm
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I was thinking maybe K-Fed in order to put the suckiness over the top.
You could choose from hits like:
“Snap”-I’m sure Mr. Wetherell is about to do just that after realizing his team is 0-2 against the hated Gators at Bobby Bowden Field.
“Lose Control”-Seems appropriate to Bobby’s input on all facets of the team.
“A League Of My Own”-Probably where Bobby wishes he was playing after the Jeff fiasco, and getting spanked by the offensive juggernaut known as Wake Forest.
At the very least, no one would have to worry about missing anything when they headed to the snackbar and restroom at halftime.
Comment by BDoc — December 13, 2025 @ 2:14 pm
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Ironically, my roommate had Train playing when I read this article. Orson, have you sent spies to Notre Dame?
Comment by Rusty — December 13, 2025 @ 2:38 pm
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I nominate the San Francisco State University…….GATORS!
Comment by Jim in Jax — December 13, 2025 @ 2:41 pm
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BDoc: I’m rather worried that you can name 4 of K-Fed’s “hits”. I’ll have to confer with the other gentlemen in the glass box, but I’m pretty sure you just lost significant man-points by making that last post.
Comment by Aerobab — December 13, 2025 @ 2:41 pm
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Aerobab -
I second that. BDoc must now do something inversely proportional. Like wrassle a bear, or attempt to withstand a toungue lashing from the Orgeron.
Comment by Whitey — December 13, 2025 @ 3:05 pm
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CD Now.com is your friend.
At least that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
Though, if I have to regain points I’ll take a stiffarm from Super McFadden over anything from the Orgeron.
Comment by BDoc — December 13, 2025 @ 4:04 pm
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Aerobab and Whitey,
Y’all are being too kind - his man license should be suspended for 90 days, and re-education should commnece immediately. I sure SKLM can provide the needed photos, and if all else fails we’ll just get him a set of neuticles (to replace those he may have lost).
Comment by BamaTaxMan — December 13, 2025 @ 4:07 pm
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Being San Fran and all….I’d think we could pull the Village People, at least.
Or, for our male and bi-curious female crowd, noted teenage lesbian Russian punk rock girls, Tatu.
Comment by NoleinTexas — December 13, 2025 @ 4:07 pm
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Damn, I miss Firefox 2 and spell check.
Comment by BamaTaxMan — December 13, 2025 @ 4:07 pm
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irish - Journey’s also too busy because they’re being regaled with jungle stories from their monkey butlers. They had one monkey butler at first, but then he trained others.
Comment by tOSU_radar — December 13, 2025 @ 4:20 pm
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Mmmmmm, Tatu.
Comment by tOSU_radar — December 13, 2025 @ 4:21 pm
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Brain death, mind death, school damage…
Comment by SmoothJimmyApollo — December 13, 2025 @ 5:43 pm
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I agree with SKLM, I love the idea of replacing Borat’s sister with one of our local transtitutes. At least that way, there’s a chance the boobs are going to be real.
Comment by PJ from NU in SF — December 13, 2025 @ 7:28 pm
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Simple solution, really. Stanford’s band hasn’t played all year, and they’ve been known to play anything for the right price.
Comment by JD — December 13, 2025 @ 7:53 pm
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FSU’s gay male majorette/baton twirler (possibly the most embarassing anomoly in the history of college football) must be devastated that he won’t be traveling with the team. The one year FSU sucks hard enough to be invited to a bowl in San Fran and the band gets left behind.
Comment by HB — December 14, 2025 @ 10:37 am
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Nice job rationalizing there by the FSU guy, punish the band (hey, its not their fault Jeff Bowden’s trying to call plays using an old Tecmo Bowl playbook- and dagummit those plays work with Bo) for the failings of the team.
Comment by Socraticsilence — December 14, 2025 @ 2:59 pm
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How about Chief Sitting Drool, or whatever his name is? You know, the guy that rides the horse out and plans the flaming spear on the field? I wonder if he’s being outsourced? I hear that the indian from the Village People is looking for work.
Comment by NYS — December 15, 2025 @ 3:05 pm
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I apologize that the following comment doesn’t have anything to do with FSU football…but I just felt the need to say something. That male baton twirling guy is my brother. I twirled with him on the field last year. He graduated and is going to phamacy school now. I take great offense to your comments about him. For your information, he is a 4 time World Champion. Also, he started twirling when he was young because he was born with cerebral palsy. Twirling was a therapy for him and the reason his motor skill are fully functional. I’m not here to judge you…so please, keep your rude remarks to yourself and stop judging him.
Thank you.
Comment by Karrissa Wimberley — December 28, 2025 @ 5:49 pm