How do you root for the Columbia University football team when they're always losing? Meet the marching band that does.

"At a lot of games, the band are the only people there, along with the parents of the football team," said Karl Wagner, head manager of the band. "On a daily basis with the band, I am thinking, 'Why am I doing this?'"

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