Columbia band banned from finale for truth telling

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"The Columbia University Marching Band has been banned from its team's final home game against Brown for making fun of the school's winless football team. Chalk it up as another casualty of the truth.

After a 62-41 loss to Cornell — a game the Lions actually led by six points at the half — the marching band, which usually plays the team's fight song, "Roar, Lion, Roar" as the team walked past it to the locker room, decided to insert some of its own words.

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."

On Tuesday, Delgado had to tell the band that it had been banned for its mockery, however accurate.

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After an apology, the ban was lifted