This year more than ever I seem to notice how other people in my school view people in marching band... now don't get me wrong, I don't care what other people think because I love doing it and in no way am I whining about it, but I always think that we should be respected and people should like what we do, I know a lot of my non-marching friends constantly make fun of me, and there are so many people in our band that are just weird as crap, like the really weird kids, and they always have this attitude like, "If people don't like us then we'll just be even more stupid so everyone will be like, 'what the ****'". I know that usually the line is looked at a little better than other sections but does anyone else have this go on at their school? Sorry that my post is so long by the way.

Yea man I understand where your comming from. Our drumline pretty well respected from most of our student body...Our football team and our drumline have this wierd relationship. They actually really respect us and support us...and we do the same to them. Its just kinda wierd how much our football players respect us and what we do. The rest of the school body doesn't make fun of us really.
-gtekman

Wow... I hate when people say that kind of stuff to me. I normally end up blowing up on them, because I'm very short tempered. It's normally the jocks or the losers that say it to me, so I ask them where football or doing nothing, is going to take them in life.

But a lot of people in my school kind of realize what it really takes to be in a marching band. I really respect those kinds of people.

Yeah see I am pretty sure that is why they get all in our crap is because people jump on them for it and they think it's funny, but for real I mean it isn't harder then football at all, but marching band takes some hard work and determination, especially during band camp... I mean there are times you just want to drop your drum (carefully) and leave.

at our school we don't get made fun of much but snugglebunny of people cheer for us and when drumline does stuff and at the parades people always cheer. and our director last year said that "the people that make fun of us being in band are the people that aren't talented enough to play a insturment" or somethin like that

our school pretty much likes the line. we get made fun of at other schools for our uniforms though.

It's not that way at all at my school. The rest of the student body LOVES the band, the drumline especially. When we go play for the fans after halftime, they scream their lungs out. The drumline is pretty cool with my school.

Band is usually the most successful sport in my school, so people are generally cool about it. We do get a couple of losers who make fun of us, but there aren't that many of them. The football players especially like the drumline. Even when we warm up with Eights (Eight on a Hand) They'll start yelling, "Oh yeah! That's tight! That beat is funky !"
It's pretty funny.

footballs the big thing in my town, but this year, the varsity's record it 0-7 so nobody's dissin the band this year. when they did, i just told them to come do what we do and then they didn't say anything else

Ok we have our share of nerds in my band. But they keep to themselves. The majority of people in my band are the cool people in school anyway and we are well supported in the school especially the line because of the things we do at parades, football games and pep rallies.