Per the Columbia Spectator, the school newspaper, Columbia's band has been banned from performing for an 0-9 football team that some would say should be disbanded. The amusing story (our bold): After the final whistle blew on a 62-41 Cornell win—a game that got away from Columbia after it finished the first half with a six-point lead—the Lions walked to the locker rooms past the band, which was seated in the front row of the bleachers.

"Every time every game ends, we play 'Roar,'" said José Delgado, CC '12 and the band's manager. "There's music, there's a part in between when we sing lyrics, and there's music again—that's where it happened."

Rather than singing the traditional lyrics to Columbia's century-old fight song, many members instead belted an original verse that reflected the losing ways of Lions football—one of a variety of alternative verses that, according to one band member, are meant only for the band bus and Orgo Night, one of the band's most notable traditions. The first two lines say it all: "We always lose, lose, lose; by a lot, and sometimes by a little."

According to Delgado, immediately following the incident, a member of the coaching staff confronted the band about the lyrics and the team's reaction.

"Someone spoke to our drum major, and he told her they were upset about it, and immediately after, we banned those lyrics," Delgado said.

On Tuesday, Delgado had to tell the rest of the band that it would not be welcome at Columbia's final game against Brown.

Let this be a cautionary tale to bands everywhere, and perhaps particularly those who play at TCF Bank Stadium.