"Drumsticks started flying. Trombones started sliding. Everybody was doing the big-band swing. A
woman from Prairie View went to the hospital after she took some kind of wind instrument to the face. I
hope it wasn't a flugelhorn. Guarantee you what, you don't want to catch the business end of a
flugelhorn.
"It was musical mayhem, the spats spat of all time. We're talking 370 marchers total. Guys got beat up in
three-quarter time. People got good and drummed. It was the kind of day when you hoped your band
had a really good concussion section."
—Rick Reilly, Sports Illustrated, October 5, 1998
