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• The last two weeks of January, we had rehearsals at Gibson-Nagurski (we just call it Bierman), including two 8-hour rehearsals each day of the last weekend in January. The week before the Bowl, we had 8-hour rehearsals at US Bank Stadium with the whole cast, mostly just running the show on repeat to iron out all the coordination between the moving stages and all of the field performers.

• We learned of this at our end-of-season banquet in early December. We had some time over winter break to prepare music, but most of the choreography was in learned in late January.

• More choreography. For "Suit and Tie", the song we played, we were either marching or dancing in place for the entire song; there was really no parking and barking (standing and playing).

• We were outside the stadium/in the tunnel during the first half, then went back to campus immediately after halftime.

• No monetary compensation. This was a fantastic opportunity, and we were really happy to just be there. There are some fees for being in the band, mostly instrument/equipment rental costs.

We always show proper reverence to the (affectionately named) "Bone Squad".

No. The acoustics in US Bank Stadium aren't great (we learned that last year at a Vikings halftime where we could barely hear ourselves), and having each of use a mic and dance would've been a pain to organize in the time we had.

That being said, the sound was us. We got an arrangement of Suit and Tie written just for us earlier in January, and recorded it the Monday before the game. That was played over the speakers (with JT doing live vocals) during the performance.

It was an interesting wardrobe, to be sure. He rocked it though, and I think the jacket made it classy enough to work.

The whole band performed, but not all together.

The arrangement of "Suit and Tie" that we played was for drums, brass, and saxophones only. Our woodwinds (clarinet and flute players) were on the field with the concert crowd at the beginning, and were part of the "Mirrors" performance as well.