<p>I don’t consider marching band a sport. It’s certainly a time-consuming activity, but I just don’t consider it a sport</p>
<p>No one is arguing that it is not challenging, it just simply isn’t a sport. There are many, many things that are physically demanding and intensely competitive that aren’t sports. In any case, no DI school has “Marching Band” listed as a Varsity sports team, and I’m pretty sure Title IX does no define Marching Band as a sport.</p>
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<p>I didn’t see that qualification in your definition.</p>
<p>it is a subjective competition that involves physical and musical competence. it may not be a traditional ‘sport’, but I think it is comparable</p>
<p>Well, I’ve always felt that golf was more of a lawn game than a sport…</p>
<p>You guys will never reach a consensus on this.</p>
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<p>Haha, agreed. I feel as if I probably shouldn’t have brought up the whole “cross country isn’t a sport” issue… 
But some interesting conversation is coming out of it haha.</p>
<p>@Owlehn, I’m a girl, and my times are like… in the 23s by the end of the season. Definitely not the fastest, but I don’t run to be faster than my teammates but to be faster than myself. (:</p>
<p>Marching band is an athletic activity that requires physical endurance, precision, and all different levels of awareness. And there is most definitely a competitive aspect to it - if you’ve ever watched BoA or UIL State you’d see how much time kids put into a show. So I think it has all the elements of a sport. But it’s also got the musical aspect to it. So I guess it depends on whether or not you consider dance a sport or an art form. There’s no denying the athletic requisites, though.</p>
<p>Has anyone seen the film Drumline? </p>
<p>They look pretty athletic to me.</p>
<p>Am I wrong or do the arguments about what is a sport just get more and more illogical as time goes by? A SPORT has to have an athletic aspect to it and carrying a tuba for an hour and walking down a field hardly qualifies as athletic… So just get over yourself whoever came up with this ridiculous idea.</p>
<p>@ccuser
Have you ever seen real band drummers in your high school band? They look nothing like Nick Cannon and his cinematic drum moves…</p>
<p>The kids on my high school baseball team also look nothing like Alex Rodriguez…</p>
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You’re mistaking athletic with physical. Yes it’s a physical activity and it has physical requisites, but no, it is not a sport.</p>
<p>Well then how do you distinguish athletic from physical? </p>
<p>Also, I consider marching band to be a musical form over an athletic activity, because the members are musicians first and then marchers. If you took out the music, it would just be a bunch of kids walking around on a field, which would look cool but mean absolutely nothing. So I guess I shouldn’t’ve said marching band was a sport. But it doesn’t really matter, because it’s an athletic activity in the manner that dance is.</p>
<p>Also also, as someone who comes from one of the best high school drumlines in the nation, the movie Drumline is kind of insulting. :/</p>
<p>^ I consider athletic ability/activity to refer exclusively to ability in sports as defined by Title IX and/or the general consensus of colleges/high schools/the professional sporting world. Plainly put, marching band is not a sport.</p>
<p>lol I’m sorry for bringing this up! anyways… Yale… </p>
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<p>fgsfds what school do you go to? I’ve probably competed against you at some point in the last four years if you go to a 5A school</p>
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<p>Yes, I realize this…</p>
<p>Hahaha seems like many people are quite passionate over this issue…:P</p>
<p>Hmmm… I don’t want to post it here. It’s 5A though, north of D/FW. Our marching band isn’t the greatest, but our drumline tears it up. </p>
<p>I’ll just PM you.</p>
<p>sooooo everyone…i have a question, actually two.
- what will you do if you do get in to yale ea?
- what will you do if you dont?</p>
<p>ill start-
- cry for a week
- cry for a week</p>