"Sometimes Stanford's halftime skits are apolitical, but over the years the band has developed a critical mass of controversial shows that have ended with Stanford apologizing: At the University of Oregon in 1990, band members lampooned the environmental controversy over loggers and the spotted owl. At BYU in 2004, the band's five dancers wore wedding veils.
Perhaps most famously, in a 1991 game against Notre Dame, a Stanford band member dressed as a nun conducted the band using a crucifix for a baton. The Fighting Irish indefinitely suspended Stanford from their stadium. The band kept it up, and in a 1997 game at Stanford, members parodied the Irish Potato Famine with a skit featuring Seamus O'Hungry. That last one created such a furor it made a syndicated Ann Landers column.
And then there's the controversy the band would rather forget: that time in 1982 when band members, thinking the clock had run out on Cal's kickoff return, ran onto the field, only to have Cal score the winning touchdown -- thanks to a zany series of laterals "-- during all the confusion. "
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