Jim Rome has a take on marching bands then marching bands get revenge

On New Year’s Day, CBS Sports Radio midday host Jim Rome decided to start 2015 with a bang by having a take on college marching bands.

Well, as you can see from the now-deleted Tweet, Romey started something that he really couldn’t finish. Marching bands across the country declared war on Rome and the hashtag campaign #MarchOnRome went viral.

Just "running around with our instruments," and serving our country. #ProudtobeinBand #romeisburning #MarchOnRome pic.twitter.com/IXXXdnvbbv

— US Army Field Band (@armyfieldband) January 2, 2015

Thousands of angry band directors can't be wrong. #MarchOnRome pic.twitter.com/FPsQIzs30K

— Mrs. Sweeney (@PHSSweeney) January 3, 2015

Damn right we are cool @jimrome. Even the football players want to join. #MarchOnRome pic.twitter.com/tKMPRpBI45

— Shawn Izadi (@ShawnIzadi) January 2, 2015

Dear @jimrome, we invite you to be our guest at the 2015 Grand National Championships. #MarchOnRome @LucasOilStadium pic.twitter.com/B7Ya6TkKdE

— BANDS OF AMERICA (@BANDSOFAMERICA) January 2, 2015

8,130 #marchonrome tweets sent in little less than 24 hours — http://t.co/zfxf0oCokU pic.twitter.com/xNqF5iurUt

— Chris Littmann (@chrislittmann) January 2, 2015

After Rome realized that he was in over his head, he sent out this response on Friday:

Band nation – I hear you. I was out of line. I apologize. I do not condone bullying of any kind and that was not my intent.

— Jim Rome (@jimrome) January 2, 2015

And the account CollegeMarchingBands which began the #MarchOnRome campaign promptly replied:

You are now free to leave "band nation" @jimrome but you can never come back #MarchOnRome pic.twitter.com/KoeAiekhOW

— CollegeMarching.com (@CollegeMarching) January 2, 2015

Our take? Never mess with college marching bands because they are very militant when attacked. We at Awful Announcing love college marching bands and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

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