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Watch: Fighting Cardinals Marching Band Get Creamed

The Mentor High School marching band celebrate an annual tradition that involves a fire truck and hundreds of cans of shaving cream

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The marching band had its Shaving Cream Showdown Thursday, one of its messier traditions.

The kids unload hundreds of canisters of shaving cream on one another.

Then, when they and the field is covered in white, they get hosed down by the Mentor Fire Department.

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