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and then the Navy team pushed through the ND Band by ND Stegs

The Navy football players were apparently so annoyed at the results of that play that they disrupted the ND Band postgame show. I was a senior trumpet player.

We marched from the sideline onto the field playing "Down The Line" as usual. When we were done with that I heard a noise that sounded like it might be another flyover and I was confused until I realized it was the crowd booing. We just stood there for a while with our instruments still up. The band didn't have a horns-down signal, but after a bit the drum major kind of made one up on the spot by doing the horns-up motions in reverse order. As a trumpet player I was in the front part and couldn't see what was happening, but I later heard.

The Navy players had been roughly pushing along through the rear ranks of the Band, mostly consisting of piccolos and clarinets, and therefore majority women. I later talked to some clarinet players who said they'd been quite roughly handled. I heard that the State Police on the field showed up and requested that the Navy players leave.

The Navy coach later said that they'd only been trying to do what they always did, and go to midfield to pray after the game, and "we've never been booed before for praying". The problems with that were: 1. ND and Navy had played every year since 1927 and this wasn't something we were used to them doing ; 2. for the same reasons, they would have been well aware that the ND Band would be on the field at the time ; 3. a clarinet player I later dated said she's never yet heard a prayer that included the words "F*** you! Get the f*** out of my way!"

The ND Band office was subsequently inundated with e-mails from Navy students, officers, and retirees expressing regret for the actions of their team and their coach.

A postscript to it was that when Army visited the following year, they politely asked the Band to hold off for a few minutes on the postgame show so they could do their own Alma Mater and then run down the field to the tunnel. The ND Band waited as requested and all went smoothly.