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.

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Better go tell bridezilla that.

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?

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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!

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'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
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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

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Dave
Pawleys Island, SC

'79 300CD

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

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1972 300SEL 4.5 98k miles

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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

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1974 Triumph TR6
1999 Saab 9-5 wagon (wife's)

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.

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1992 300D 2.5T
1980 Euro 300D (sadly, sold)
1998 Jetta TDI, 132K "Rudy"
1974 Triumph TR6
1999 Saab 9-5 wagon (wife's)

Shotgun!

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'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Now that's worth paying for!

The military really needs to get off this safety kick.

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