A Tiger TV screenshot of a segment featuring LSU Marching Band tuba player Paul Dandison alleged to be texting during the LSU-Arkansas game.

BATON ROUGE — What started out as a funny observation by a couple of Tiger TV sports anchors has produced fallout from some members of the LSU Marching Band.

The usually busy and energetic band members didn’t have many opportunities to play their celebratory songs at the Nov. 15 loss to the University of Arkansas. That’s when junior Taylor Curet noticed a Tiger Band member texting.

“I thought in the back of my mind ‘Oh that’s kinda funny. LSU’s playing so bad he’s lost interest,’ ” said Curet, who decided to capture the moment on film and use it for his Tiger TV show, “The Sports Desk.”

The segment, written by Curet and co-anchor Morgan Beard, featured video of a band member on his smart phone doing what Curet and Beard — satirically — thought was messaging.

The faux-texts they cited included messages from “Mommie Dearest” and references to the banned but popular song “Neck,” which Beard points out hasn’t been played all year.

The video has garnered more than 1,600 views on YouTube and the wrath of Tiger Band members.

“We were utterly surprised by the reaction,” said Curet. “I woke up Tuesday with messages from angry band members, tweets, YouTube comments.”

Those comments included:

•“I just always assumed that it took more than trying to be a bully to become a television commentator. Guess it doesn’t work that way at LSU Tiger TV! Good luck with that case of triple cranial rectitus!”

• One band member, Jessica Robelot, commented on the Tiger TV website: “I don’t find this funny at all, just plain disrespectful. The band works harder than you probably could even imagine and they are all students just like you.”

Robelot added that the main reason the band was so upset was that “we have received so many complaints and fuss from the student section this year, mainly because we don’t play ‘Neck’ or do what they want us to do. We even received booing as we left the last home game against ‘Bama.”

Robelot lodged a complaint to Tiger TV adviser Cindy Carter, who refused to remove the video.

“If there’s nothing unethical, and it’s not trying to pass itself off as something other than what it is, then the students have a First Amendment right to put the content out there,” Carter said.

“While I did appreciate (Carter) hearing me out, I feel like they still aren’t seeing our side and are now benefiting from this sad story they created,” countered Robelot.

Curet and Beard say they had no intention of creating an uproar.

“We didn’t intend to call out the band or anything just thought it would be funny honestly that we caught this guy. It was more about the guy, the fact that he’s in the band means nothing, it could’ve been a random fan,” Curet said.

“It was our kicker, which is usually a humorous or lighthearted way to end the show,” noted Beard. “We were just joking.”

Beard also said anyone who thinks Tiger TV is criticizing the band is “misguided.” He said that in the past, they have featured the band in their live Game Day shows and have even highlighted the band’s march down victory hill as “one of the greatest traditions at LSU.”

As for the subject of the video, tuba player Paul Dandison, is much less offended. The junior from Salisbury, N.C., said he found it humorous.

“I didn’t take offense to it. It was meant to be silly and I firmly believe that,” Dandison said. However, Dandison did have some issue with the “Neck” references adding, “Us playing ‘Neck’ is completely out of the bands control, and the reason we can’t play it is due to LSU Athletics telling us not to play it.”

The Athletic Department, to which the band ultimately reports, prohibited playing the song because students added offensive lyrics that were being heard by television audiences.