Our oldest son John Bailey Needham graduated from Virginia Tech this year, and as most readers already know, he was a four-year member of the VT marching band, The Marching Virginians. He was also in the VT Pep Band so he got to play for both the men’s and women’s basketball teams, and even got to travel with the women’s team as they marched through the NCAA tournament, to the final four. He played for the crowd at games at VT, and in Seattle for the Elite Eight, and then traveled to Houston for the Final Four, where VT lost in their final Four game.
While watching some VT football games this year, we saw the commercial below, and wouldn’t you know? The commercial featured the marching band playing, AND included a brief clip of the marching band, featuring our son on trumpet. You can see that at the 25-second mark in the video below.
So I’m preserving this video in hopes that it will always be available and maybe, in the future, our son’s cousins, aunts and uncles, friends, maybe even his own kids, will be able to see it too.