"Ridin dirty"...

[slidejedi6]

We played Grambling State University today and we won. However, the real story is what happened at halftime. For those that don't know, Grambling State University is a historically black college with a traditional black college show band(ie. Willowridge and "Drumline"). Their band is one of the most famous marching bands in the world. Their band was at the game today and at halftime, they went first and did their thing. The crowd loved it. We went next and what did we do? We did a military drill down the field playing Sousa's Washington Post. However, right before we finised that piece (and before we lost the crowd), our brand new scoreboard started playing Chamillionaire's "Ridin Dirty". At this point, we heard four whistles and broke down into dance. That's right, the Spirit of Houston Cougar Marching Band broke down and danced, well. The crowd lost it. It was a packed house(really it was) and I swear to you, I've never heard our stadium that loud before. They loved it. After that, Grambling came back onto the field and we played "Respect" together and then we did the "Grambling/Cougar breakdown" to exit the field. For those who had an opportunity to witness this and didn't take advantage, you missed a cool moment. This was in my opinion, the best halftime I've ever been apart of. I really enjoyed myself.

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If you want to see it, go here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DCWLnOTnH8

"The Houston band even blew away Grambling's fabled band at halftime, hitting the field with a gyrating performance of 'Ridin'' by Chamillionaire that had even the Tigers' fans up and cheering."
-Michael Murphy in the Houston Chronicle - 9/17/06

"Anyone missing that performance simply missed one of the best shows ever seen on a gridiron!"
-"EatEmUp" on coogfans.com