A few years ago, the Terps were playing a tournament game out in Kansas City. My old roommate and I, both being from Maryland, decided to take advantage of the opportunity as we were living in Wichita at the time and bought ourselves some seats. Whenever the game stopped, whether it be due to someone calling timeout or going to commercial, the Maryland cheerleaders would come out and they would do a quick number. Other times the band would just play music with no dance number accompanying it.
One of these instances, they played the theme to the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. Now, this makes some bit of sense as their mascot is a turtle, but it was still awesome seeing cheerleaders dancing to the Ninja Turtles theme.
They managed to top that in a more recent game when, for reasons beyond my understanding, they just decided to start playing the theme to Legend of Zelda. It's a great theme in its own right, but the fact that our state's school band was playing it for sporting events was glorious.
As I said, I don't really follow college sports so maybe this is a more common occurrence then I'm making it out to be, but as far as I know, the Terps band is the only one that indulges in playing the geekier tunes. So yeah, it gives them a leg up over the other school bands in my opinion. More bands need to do that because it's always a riot hearing a band bust out into a song that you heard on an old video game.
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