If you could logically call it a band, yes I did. I played an alto sax from 7th grade to graduation ultimately.
We didn't do any football games though. Sadly, the music program in our school district was pretty pathetic technically speaking. Most students who took the class really only went there to socialize and hang out. Though the teacher (and through all grades I had the same teacher too so XD) did try her best to get the class to do what it should have done, ultimately in the end she gave up and the band pretty much became no more after I graduated.
As for me, well, I was one of the few kids who actually did what he was supposed to do. And, for that matter, I even applied the knowledge elsewhere and essentially improved my ability to compose music. So in this aspect, the class proved beneficial to me.