USC fans don’t have be told about the Stanford marching band’s notorious reputation.
This is the group that spelled out a crude insult during a halftime performance at the Coliseum in 1986.
And showed up outside the Los Angeles County courthouse during jury selection for the O.J. Simpson trial in 1994.
And drove around in a fake blood-spattered white Ford Bronco – a reference to Simpson’s low-speed car chase – when the Trojans played at Stanford later that year.
These days, the band is at odds with its own university administration, which has banned it from traveling to regular-season road games in response to complaints about offensive behavior, hazing and violations of alcohol and controlled-substance rules.