Long before Michael Jackson, the Rolling Stones and Rihanna, there was Freddie Colston.
Colston was just a 20-year-old student from tiny Fairbanks, Louisiana, when he traveled to Los Angeles in January 1967. He had grown up in a home without indoor plumbing, but now he was staying in lavish accommodations with about 180 other members of the Grambling College marching band.
Soon, they would high-step onto the field at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to perform in the halftime show of the very first Super Bowl.
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