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Hatterasguy 02-09-2011 10:37 PM
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Originally Posted by JamesDean (Post 2658735)
The average family should not be spending nearly that on such an event. I cant understand 1k, especially if the whole household is a collection of avid football fans. It would be like a vacation. However, speaking on the family level, I'd never endorse spending 20k on anything short of long lasting items. I'm fairly certain like 99% of you here would agree. LOL.
The "average" family makes like $45k a year or something like that.

I suspect that like a lot of us here, and at the SB they are above average. That's the only way it makes sense.

Although if the average family does spend $700 to attend one game that's about 2% of their pretax income, ie they really can't afford it.

Benz Dr. 02-10-2011 02:04 AM
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Originally Posted by JamesDean (Post 2658735)
The average family should not be spending nearly that on such an event. I cant understand 1k, especially if the whole household is a collection of avid football fans. It would be like a vacation. However, speaking on the family level, I'd never endorse spending 20k on anything short of long lasting items. I'm fairly certain like 99% of you here would agree. LOL.

Better go tell bridezilla that.

Carleton Hughes 02-10-2011 11:10 AM
This simply proves nobody ever lost a buck underestimating the taste and intelligence of the average hoople.

Seems the communal Elevator has been stooping a few floors short of the Penthouse lately, don't it?

mgburg 02-10-2011 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by tbomachines (Post 2658437)
How much did it take to put on that incredibly awful halftime show?
Even that bag of "re-animating" Doritos couldn't have saved that 1/2-time show.

Now, if CA had choked on the bag of chips BEFORE she squawked the anthem, that alone would have been worth the admission price right there! :thumbsup:

Daman858 02-10-2011 01:04 PM
We had a fly-over at a Baltimore Colts Game way back in 1976.

Didn't go so well.
http://baltimorecolts.blogspot.com/2008/07/memorial-stadium-plane-crash.html

WANT '71 280SEL 02-10-2011 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy (Post 2658294)
The public shouldn't foot the bill for frivolous sporting events when their are other far more pressing needs for the money.
Like sending Air Force One screaming past the Statue of Liberty for a photo opp only to scare New Yorkers and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars when Photoshop could have done a better job? No, there aren't more pressing needs for the money ;)

cscmc1 02-10-2011 04:28 PM
To top it off, that was the typical effete mile-high, way-subsonic "flyover" of the "safe" new military.

Here's how it SHOULD be done (and was, at one time):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ufA8j3XAhc

Pooka 02-10-2011 04:30 PM
Back in 1990, I think, George H. W. Bush came to Fair Park in Dallas for something. I don't remember what he spoke about but there was a very big crowd. He stood outside to speak from the steps of the Hall of Texas.

There was a fly over of F-16's I think. Years later I spoke to a retired Secret Service guy who told me that there might as well have been a fly over since when the President speaks in the open like that there are always aircraft above enforcing a no-fly zone.

With George W. Bush at the game the jets would have been there anyway.

cscmc1 02-10-2011 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Pooka (Post 2659259)
Back in 1990, I think, George H. W. Bush came to Fair Park in Dallas for something. I don't remember what he spoke about but there was a very big crowd. He stood outside to speak from the steps of the Hall of Texas.

There was a fly over of F-16's I think. Years later I spoke to a retired Secret Service guy who told me that there might as well have been a fly over since when the President speaks in the open like that there are always aircraft above enforcing a no-fly zone.

With George W. Bush at the game the jets would have been there anyway.
I suspect there were jets around, but probably not because a former president happened to be in the stadium. Whether he was there or not, I suspect some sort of aerial presence was in the area for such a high profile event.

SwampYankee 02-10-2011 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by PaulC (Post 2658441)
I'm willing to fly over the next Super Bowl in a Piper Cub for just $45k. I'll even have a fat drunk as a co-pilot if that helps.
Shotgun!

Hatterasguy 02-10-2011 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by cscmc1 (Post 2659257)
To top it off, that was the typical effete mile-high, way-subsonic "flyover" of the "safe" new military.

Here's how it SHOULD be done (and was, at one time):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ufA8j3XAhc
Now that's worth paying for!:eek::cool:

The military really needs to get off this safety kick.


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