1) An 8 to 5 is:

a) 825
b) working hours
c) Number of steps between 5 yards
d) Number of people between 5 yards
e) reduction in rank numbers

2) A trumpet player blares in your ear, you:

a) Ignore him
b) Hit him
c) Go deaf
d) Hold your ears
e) b, c, &d

3)A band leaves with 6 buses. Two of them take a wrong turn, one gets pulled over for DWI, another collides with a dozen bike riders, and one ends up in Cleveland at Shebee's. How many make it to the Rubber Bowl?

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4.5
e) 5
f) none , must explain answer

4) FP, stands for:

a) Fun Person
b) Fat Person
c) Frivilous Piccilo
d) Dumb Trombone player

5) In badmitten, you use a:

a) tennis ball
b) birdie
c) baseball
d) hockey puck
e) Football

6) Which Band is awesome:

a) Ohio State
b) Univeristy of Iowa
c) Univeristy of Akron
d) Shadyside Mental Institution

1)

a) 825 is just another number like you
b) who stops working at 5?
c) Good you got your act together
d) Kind of Crowded huh?
e) 8 - x = 5

2)

a) you moron, how can ignore something so obnoxious?
b,c,d,e) Yeah, I'll do all of these...

3)

a) 1 could be right

4)

a) maybe
b) maybe
c) no way
d) a good possibility

5)

e) Football, of course...

6)

a) ha ha ha ha
b) only place for Akron to get grad. ass.'s
c) could be
d) could play better than the woodwinds....

The un- OFFICIAL Blue & Gold...

We cheer the Akron Marching Band
We cheer while we're dripping with sweat;

When we are out, the people shout
You must be masochists !!!

Right ! , Right !

We cheer our finely balanced sound
We cheer as we blow our brains out,

Keep those horns up,
swing and snap

In the Akron Marching Band

Chorus -

How can Akron, Go on living
Wi-it out, this band swinging?

No one cares about the score
But when we play - They always cheer for MORE!

In the Fine Fashion of Marching Band Itineraries
from the Best of Band Blast 1991

5:30 am Realize Today is Alumni Band!!!

5:31 am Roll back over in bed - Must be a Bad Dream!!!!

6:30 am Alarm goes off - hit it - and go back to sleep

7:30 am Realize that today is Alumni Band - Try to find OLD Instrument...

7:36 am Find OLD instrument - but can't touch from Fungus growing on it for the past ??? years.

7:41 am Realize that you should have been at Guzetta Hall @ 7:30; Quickly drive ( and get ticket ) to Guzetta - only to realize that you forgot to get dressed

7:43 am Realize you weren't the ONLY Alumni to do this...

7:56 am Meet old friends from band - ( Does everyone Gain weight when they don't march anymore)

8:30 am Get the Blue and Gold - can't be the same song you played all those years...

8:35 am Embarass Yourself - when you try to play a note...

9:10 am Starts to Rain ( Real HARD)

9:11 am Told to Go Outside (WHY?)

9:12 am Realize you have to march to Jackson Field ( a long way in the rain )

9:15am Still on the way to Jackson Field ( The drummers are dragging! )

9:22 am Start to see Current Band

9:25 am Start to pick your knee's up ( But keep hitting your gutt )

9:30 am Realize that you should have streched out before marching...

9:35 am Bent over with PAIN!!!

9:37 am YOUNG bandsperson helps you up - Wish you were 19 again!!!

10:35 am Starting to get the hang of 8to 5 ( did 5 yards get longer - or your legs get shorter??? )

11:00 am Practice is over!!! ( You actually played part of the Blue&Gold )

12:01 pm Get on Bus for Rubber bowl

12:03 pm Realize you still have your PJ's on

12:05 pm Say what the heck - Noone ever goes to ZIP games

1:01 pm Watch Akron U kick Youngstown State Butts ( Walking Band )

1:35 pm Akron is losing by 41 points

1:56 pm Try to use the restroom under the stadium

2:01 pm Realize the band is marching onto the field.

2:03 pm Run across the field and find your spot... Pick your instrument up and realize you never cleaned out the Fungus...

2:12 pm HalfTime is over... You Bossa Nova off the field - Put realize You're the only one doing it

2:12.5 pm Realize you just played with the Youngstown State Band...

2:13 pm Thanked, but told to go sit in the Stands...

3:30 pm Akron lost 56 - 14

4:30 pm Say Good-Bye - and scare the "Rookies" in the band what they have to look forward to...

Did you ever wonder how many blades of grass are on Jackson Field? How many of tehm survive the season? How many times does a UAkron Marching Band member pick up his/her feet? How many miles do those feet march in a season? How much money you are going to make this year? How much money are you going to receive as Ohio's Pride? How much you make per hour of practice, travel, and performance time? And at last a question that can be answered... We have scientifically calculated the amount of time, in rough terms, that a UAkron band member puts in during the season:

BAND CAMP 32 HRS.

11 WEEKS OF 3 PRACTICES/WEEK 66 HRS.

6 SATURDAY PRACTICES 15 HRS.

TRAVEL/PERFORMANCE 120 HRS.

TOTAL 231 HRS./

SEASON

At $100/Season

231 Hours/ $100 = $ 0.43 / Hour

from Band Blast, Eastern Michigan Trip 1986