When the 80-member Ana-Hi-Steppers, the drill team at Anaheim High, performed at halftime of the first Super Bowl, they couldn't have realized how big the event would become.
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“I don’t remember the game, I have no idea about the teams,” Claffey said. “I just remember the guys in the Grambling band autographing our boots.” It was all so sweetly simple. After a Saturday night rehearsal, they showed up at Anaheim High that Sunday morning. They climbed onto a couple of school buses. They drove to the Coliseum. They took the field at halftime and joined with the other two bands to form an outline of the United States map.
“We had won all kinds of awards, so we looked at this like another competition,” Claffey said. “It was like an Anaheim High School football game, only it was at the Coliseum. It would be years before I realized it was anything bigger.” To be honest, few outside of the drill team actually remember. There have been no newspaper anniversary stories, no anniversary television reflections , never any mention by the NFL, and no official tribute by the high school itself. Perhaps this is because their achievement was quickly overshadowed by an NFL evolution that has turned a quaint halftime exhibition into edgy performance art.
Although Anaheim is the only high school drill team to perform in a Super Bowl halftime show, for the first 26 years the show contained some sort of college marching band. Then Michael Jackson appeared in Super Bowl XXVII in Pasadena, and the cute little diversion changed forever.
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