EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY -- The schools were small and the crowd was modest, yet Virginia State and Benedict College put on an impressive display Saturday at MetLife Stadium — and that was just the halftime show.
The two southern, traditionally black colleges played a spirited football game around a hip-hop halftime extravaganza that lasted longer than the Super Bowl version and featured a Battle of the Bands between two of the liveliest musical units in the country.
Benedict won the inter-conference, Div. II game, 30-14. The marching band competition between VSU's Trojan Explosion and BC's Tiger Band of Distinction might be declared a deadlock — though the Tiger Band employed more ambitious choreography.
“We have a pretty good reputation,” Dr. Keith Miller, president of Virginia State, said about his band. “I just want them to enjoy the moment.”
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