This is a minor point- but when the tunnel walk was first introduced, we all clapped with the cheerleaders and built up quite a crescendo... now we all clap like Steve Buscemi"s teeth- we are all doing our own thing. Minor, I know, but we have the rhythm of a bunch of white dancers. I would follow those pom-poms wavers anywhere.
Yeah, this isn't a minor point to me... People not being able to clap on the beat pretty much ruins the marching band's pregame show, the fight song, and the tunnel walk for me. I'm being completely serious, I can't enjoy the music with that crap going on around me.
Also, is anybody else creeped out when they play that one sound byte, "STAND UP AND SHOUT!!!!" and everyone around you
actually stands up and shouts!?
Last thing... if everybody in the stadium yelled the same pitch, it would be like 100 times louder than it is now.