The relationship between the marching bands at The University of Arizona and Grambling State University goes back a long ways.
1967 to be exact.
This was the year of what is now known as Super Bowl I. The Pride of Arizona and World Famed Tiger Band took the field in an act of solidarity.
This was a time in American history when racial tensions were high. Martin Luther King Jr. had made his first speech on the Vietnam War just eight months earlier. Texas Western had won the NCAA basketball National Championship in March of 1966 with the first all-African American starting lineup.