Fansided

UGA tuba player faceplants Between the Hedges

ByJohn Buhler|
Sep 5, 2015; Athens, GA, USA; Georgia Bulldogs head coach Mark Richt shown during the Dawgwalk prior to the game against the Louisiana Monroe Warhawks at Sanford Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 5, 2015; Athens, GA, USA; Georgia Bulldogs head coach Mark Richt shown during the Dawgwalk prior to the game against the Louisiana Monroe Warhawks at Sanford Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports

The University of Georgia marching band, The Redcoats, saw one of their tuba players fall flat on his face, as the band members scampered off the field after the second and final lightning delay Saturday afternoon.

For some families down in the State of Georgia, there is as much pride for their son or daughter being a member of the University of Georgia’s marching band, The Redcoats, as they would feel if their son played Between the Hedges on Mark Richt’s Georgia Bulldogs.  However, one UGA tuba player completely embarrassed himself during Saturday’s game versus the ULM Warhawks.

When the game ended abruptly at 9:54 in the 4th Quarter due to lightning in the Athens area for the second time on Saturday, one sousaphone player tripped and faceplanted in front of 92,000 members of Dawg Nation.  Enter sad trombone legato slide: Whaaa….whaaaa…

Since marching bands are such an important part of the College Football experience, most UGA fans find it pretty cool if they find out a classmate of theirs is a member of The UGA Redcoats.  Nobody cares if he is a percussionist, a flautist, or rocks out with a sousaphone on Fall Saturdays.  However, it’s nearly impossible to not laugh hysterically when a tuba player eats turf trying to scamper away from impending rain.  “The Band is on the field!”

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Bro Bible wonders how this is going to effect the guy’s game on Tinder.  “Yeah, I’m that tuba guy that ate it during the ULM game. ‘Sup.”  He could certainly roll with the punches and have a good laugh about it some point down the road.

The only person who’s livid about the spill has was probably the UGA band director.  “Bro, you just destroyed thousands of dollars of music equipment on national television.  What were you thinking?  It wasn’t even raining yet!”

Something’s never change.  People are still going to live and die by their college football teams.  The fans are going to rally behind the traditions and pageantry of their school’s respective marching band.  And they’re still going to laugh uncontrollably when a member of the brass section falls down in the line of duty.

This time it happened Between the Hedges at Sanford Stadium in Athens.  Who knows where it will happen next?  Rest assured, it will happen again somewhere in the Power 5 in the coming weeks, months, or years.  Go Dawgs!

(h/t Fox Sports)

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