North Texas high school band to perform at Armed Forces Bowl in blistering cold

FORT WORTH, Texas — Kevin Fallon acquired the decision final Friday for a chance that he and his college students will bear in mind for a really very long time. 

Fallon, a band director for Boswell High School in Fort Worth, was requested by the Air Force if their band would love to symbolize for them in Thursday’s Armed Forces Bowl at TCU’s Amon G. Carter Stadium.

“Most of the kids in the room were like, ‘Sign me up, I wanna go,'” Fallon stated.

And this isn’t simply any soccer recreation. It’s a bowl recreation the place the Air Force is pitted towards the Baylor Bears. 

Fallon scrambled to discover as lots of his college students who weren’t on trip to play at the bowl recreation. His band is roughly 200 college students sturdy, however he’ll have shut to 140 college students for Thursday night time.

Fallon instructed WFAA the problem was studying the Air Force’s combat music. 

But, because the Thursday acquired nearer, one other problem emerged: the frigid temperatures. 

Thursday will probably be one of many coldest days of the 12 months. Early estimates has it feeling like 4 levels throughout kickoff and subzero at round 9 p.m.

“The first story was this group of kids is going to a bowl game and play on behalf of Air Force. And then this arctic vortex began and then the story became this group of kids are going to freeze their tails off at a bowl game,” Fallon laughed.

To fight the cold, Fallon has outfitted the band with plastic mouthpieces and any clothes reinforcements they’ll discover. 

Fallon has burdened layers and bundling up and even bringing a blanket if doable. 

Thankfully the Air Force is overlaying two meals for the group and placing the scholars on constitution buses.

“This is something they’ll talk about forever,” stated Fallon.

This is when alternative outweighs any inconvenience.