Mira Costa football has been doing an admirable job this year, considering their competition and the turnover from last year’s lineup. However, we think a more, let’s say, stimulating halftime spectacle is in order to get them psyched for this season.
Gone is the life-changing power of the Zorro theme. No longer can we enjoy the awe-inspiring wonder of the magic-themed show of ’09. We have been left with “coastal waters,” and even though the whole color guard team looks like they’re from Pandora, our halftime show needs more than the ebb and flow of the tides to get Costa seriously pumped.
When we heard the theme, our minds were filled with reverie for the excitement of the BP oil spill and the Top Kill, but no such luck. We’re also fairly certain that the new vocal warm-up points to a little extra Greece nostalgia on Mr. Hayden’s part. It’s time to say “kalinixtasas” to Syros and “hello” to real entertainment.
Don’t get us wrong; the marching band rocks, but it’s a tough transition when you’ve been listening to World Cup 2010-themed music all summer. We can turn K’naan’s “Waving Flag” off repeat for one thing and one thing only: the incredible power of All-American, born-n-bred, honky tonk country music.
And thanks to a brilliant hire over the summer, our hero has arrived. May we present Principal Benjamin Dale. We tell a lot of jokes in this column, but we are entirely serious when we break this news: Principal Dale is the front man of an incredible country band named Truckstop.
Our new principal shreds the country-fried gee-tar and wails a funky drawl for lead vocals in this up-and-coming group, which is sure to take our football team by storm. We would be unstoppable in the second half with Dale’s country-western band playing tunes as rockin’ as “Look Out Texas” and “My Redneck Heart.”
We do really appreciate what the marching band does, however, so we need them in the show. Let’s strap a supersoaker on every member and see what happens. We’ve got more ideas, too. As long as Costa is adding redundant cheerleading squads, we should create a “High Five!” team. Costa needs more school spirit, and we need to step up in the naming-cheer-squads-really-positive-energizing-things department. We’d even quit La Vista to join.
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