$450K for this Super Bowl Atrocity?
 

Navy spends $450K to fly F-18's over the closed stadium? Fat drunks couldn't even see 'em!?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/07/AR2011020705610.html

The public shouldn't foot the bill for frivolous sporting events when their are other far more pressing needs for the money.

I used to think it was pretty pointless also. But then I realized they are up flying around in training exercises anyway. So there is no real difference. Either way, the money will be spent. And the $450 is probably 0.000000000000000000000000000001% of the budget anyway.

They should just give it to me. I want a gullwing.

Heck, I would have ridden by the stadium on my bike and a big NAVY sign for a paltry $100,000,

Oh, I don't think I would have gone that crazy. Maybe "Armed Forces", "USMC" or "Army" but "Navy"? Me forefathers would be a'shivering in their graves!:P

there were a ton of fat drunks outside too, but still not sure they could see it

Unfortunately, The Superbowl has become an exercise in excess and extravagance. $400 to over $700 for a family to attend represents a large piece out of the family budget. However, nobody forces anyone to attend, it is still free enterprise and exists because the public supports the Superbowl.

The Navy might have gotten more bang for the buck by showing video of the Blue Angels on video screens prior to the game or at half time rather than the short fly over.

Because there are way too many rude jerks that attend sporting events nowadays, I've taken to watching these sporting events on television. Less stress, more fun, and I don't have to share my living room with 100,000 jerkapotamouses.

How much did it take to put on that incredibly awful halftime show?

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.

I'll do donuts in the field for $35k :D

That reminds me. Anybody heard anything from WVOTOGO in a while?:P

say what?400-700 to attend,whats that get ya a parking spot!!oops should have read the article first $900 to park.

Good question.

I'll do donuts in Ted's gullwing for ten smackers....

lol.

Suginami had a similar experience in my S600 for free!

That mod sure gets around. :D

I thought it was established that the NFL paid for this? and that they typically use these fly-over events for those pilots to log flight hours to they meet their quotas?

The local Bozo anchor people quoted it was aveage for a family of 4 to spend 20K to attend this SB--- But "Steve and Heather" got no credabaliity with me. when ch4 was Fox -They decided they could be commentators as well as anchor persons--and impose their stink attitudes on us as well.

TWENTY THOUSAND?
Who the hell would spend that much on a once time event?

First class everything I suppose..............
The readers of this forum tend to have a different point of view than the average person out there--its more like, -How little can I spend for anything?

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.

I dont know --or care about sports--But theres NO WAY a family of four could do it for 1 thousand..... period.

Oh I never claimed to know the cost of tickets or anything like that. Thats how much I'd a lot for such an event. I've traveled to NYC and seen 3 broadway productions with good seats for about $500 total...hotel/gas/food/etc

Yeah, like a wedding????

But if you lived in the area and knew about this there was a way to park for FREE, sort of.

Across the street from the stadium is a shopping center called Lincoln Square. If you bought $75 worth of anything at one of their merchants you could leave the receipt on your dash and walk over to the game. They advertise they are one block north of the stadium, but it is more like one mile. They are about six blocks away.

They do this for all the games but the 'surcharge' is usually only $40.

Need to be dropped off at the front door? They also run a shuttle bus for $10 a trip.

Not me buddy. Thats way outrageous. Maybe $5k tops. I'm cheap.

Although I've been to expensive weddings before. $100/plate. Ridiculous price for the quantity and quality of food provided..at the one place. The other was actually pretty good.

The most unusual "flyover"?
Back when the BALTIMORE Colts played in Memorial Stadium, some guy buzzed the field after a game and landed in the upper deck. Oh, and he lost his pilot's license.

Easy, Dude. Go have a White Russian . . .

Virgin White Russian my man... :D

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.

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?

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:

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

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 ;)

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

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.

Shotgun!

Now that's worth paying for!:eek::cool:

The military really needs to get off this safety kick.