Marching band is harder than football. (High School)

To me learning music and the half time show are a given, its what you sign up to do and yes has some mental aspects like everything else in life, but being able to follow a script is easy.(as I mentioned in my opening). It is the what do you do when something doesn't go to plan is the mentality are you going to break down or quickly rebound, as you make it seem when ever band members mess up all goes to hell. That in its self is not mentally challenging, it is following a choreographed script. Being aware of where you are and fixing all your mistakes is what everyone from dance company to the chess team does, it is not very hard. Yes you are right in successful programs the playbook doesn't drastically change each year, but that doesn't make it any less as challenging, ask anyone who has played football, a successful offense is an art to master. " A football team can run a play 7 times, and have it work only 3, and that is acceptable". No its not acceptable, no where is a 42% rate acceptable someone was not doing their job for those plays not to work so that is where practice comes in and you keep on mastering the play book. "If a marching band had that kind of accuracy it would fall apart completely halfway through the first set" How would anyone know what a successful marching band is? They do not take score, there is one band. Accuracy of what? the notes no one can hear? We are talking about high school too I do not know of a single high school whose band does anything like college bands. Maybe move parallel and horizontal which we all should have the basic motor functions to do that, regardless if you have a measly 50 pounds on your shoulder. In a weight room the bar weighs 45 lbs and that is extremely easy to carry around. I did not say the quarterback fumbling, I said he throws an interception, which does compare. When a quarterback throws an interception it is a miscalculation of the vicinity of where he thinks the ball will end up.. much like the miscalculation of missing a key.. even though, when 50-100 how many band members there may be, there are a lot doing the same thing, so one miscalculation will not be noticed. The football teams that are used to losing are quitters. No one who is a true competitor can take loses well. "nothing compared to the pressure a marcher feels when he knows he just missed that step off" That is from a lack of practice, confidence and trust in team to feel like that. Bad mental conditioning, a kid like that who is a step behind would be sitting the bench because like every athlete knows a step behind is all it takes to lose the game."Every single eye of the audience is now drawn to that player who is well aware of it, and has to get back in the form" Wrong there is too much going on to notice one person of many with all the moving parts. "The audience also will have little knowledge of what actually may be going wrong on the field for a football team" wrong every dad knows what is going on. You watch the game and you can put it together. " A high school marching band accepts anyone who pays" That, right there, proves everything.. nothing else matters because that means everyone from little jimmy who has never played an instrument to a present day Niccolo Paganini can join! there are no requirements, experience or anything but your money needed to join! its not selective at all, so therefore its nothing like football or any sport in the world. You can quit at anytime because there is no commitment, you have not gone to morning work outs all summer, dedicated yourself school or the weight room. One week of what you make it seem,"band camp from hell" then that is it. Its not your money it is your parents, so therefore when the only commitment you have is a monetary commitment you can leave anytime you want, no one depends on you and that is just how it all goes for the band. You may have friends and call yourself tight nit but until you feel like you are going to die from heat exhaustion in the middle of July you find out who your friends are, and the dedication you are making no to yourself, but to one another that through all the hell our coaches have put us through as long as we have the will and dedication with in ourselves and teammates to not only win but to become brothers for life, nothing will ever compare to football. Your whole argument is based off the notion that all things are equal. To compare football and the band as a whole (which you did) means they would have to be on the same playing field. They are not, no sport would compare to the band but if you wanted to compare character aspects you can do that, but you did not. You compared them in 3 vague categories which you state what you do, I state what I do and nothing crosses at the middle. But where you messed up is where you said its physically tougher. No one in American, but you, has ever seriously said the band is more physically challenging than football because its not.