Posted October 25
In case you missed the half-time extravaganza at Tuesday night's LHS playoff game, a few Roadies put on a show that won't soon be forgotten (unlike the football game which I think we'd all like to forget).
Well, the scheming all started Monday morning after Mr. Carlson made the decision to do a horn arc instead of the full show. That sent the wheels turning about how we could use the power poles somehow in the show. So we went ahead and hauled them to HWF and figured we'd figure something out (had to bring the truck and uniform trailer anyway). So we assembled a few poles,
grabbed a few roadies, conceived a brilliant drill on the sandy patch underneath the spruce trees, and...
To the surprise of Mr. C and most of the band, eight Roadies (Scott Feltis, Angie Digatono, Tom Reed, Robert Schlup, Dean Versteeg, Tim Dykstra, Chuck Stanga, and Jeff Goddard) drug Power Poles out onto the field while the band was playing and performed our show. We not only included the opening Standard "V", but also transversed into the difficult Inverted "V", executed a perfect goal line race, Circled-the-Wagons, spun off into a full company front, maintained nearly perfect synchronization in pulling out our cell phones during the 'dead' time, knocked the poles over and converted the lights to 'Flashing' mode after the 22 count delay (a crowd pleaser), and then trumped the stands as the band left the track.
Undoubtedly the highlight of the show was that Tom Reed screwed a large plastic owl to the top cross-bar of his power pole. Several kids in the horn arc noticed it as we walked in and they turned around and got quite a laugh out of it.
While we were on the field doing our show, Jeff actually called Neil (who was in Fargo and unfortunately, or thankfully?, couldn't be there to enjoy the festivities). His response says it all: "You're doing what? There is now no doubt, you have absolutely lost your mind!" .... yup. Well said.
All-in-all it was a very fun and entertaining way to end the season, but I'm not sure we've seen the end of the power poles yet!
