According to a Wisconsin tuba player, Raiola and his teammates were engaged in their pregame warm-ups on the field near the goal line when he turned around and called him and the other tubas
Fat mother ******ers and told them that
they sucked. According to that tuba player no one in the band had done anything to provoke him, and no other band members I spoke with witnessed anything that could have provoked Raiola. The tuba player I spoke with made sure to point out that the rest of the band hadnt even been on the field yet, and none of the tuba players said anything to him, so no one in the band could have provoked Raiola prior to him making those comments.
As the band was preparing to play the National Anthem another band member told me Raiola was yelling at him, saying such things such as
Hey fat guy, you want a hot dog? When this band member did not acknowledge him, he continued to yell at other band members within earshot of him until the band began to play. A third band member told me Raiola was calling a band member near him a
fat fu** prior to their pregame performance as well.
After the bands halftime performance multiple band members I spoke with told me he and multiple other band members vividly heard Raiola ridicule a trombone players weight while they were performing. One band member reported hearing a female member of the band say Hey number 51, referring to Raiola, which multiple band members told me he responded to by
calling her the c-word as they were walking back to their seats.
This is all in addition to this facebook status which has been shared 243 times as of this writing:
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According to this band member Raiola made comments regarding his sexuality, as well as other insults involving his sister and recently deceased mother. An additional band member confirmed this story, adding that one such insult was [Raiola]
was going to take his trumpet and shove it up his sisters p***y in addition to Raiola
repeatedly calling him a fag. According to this band member as soon as we stopped for our position to play the National Anthem I just heard [Raiola] yelling continually at him. Multiple other members of the band reported hearing Raiola uttering
homophobic slurs throughout his unprovoked denigrating of the students prior to the National anthem.
