Aikman - Joe Buck comments on military flyover

Do you think they're wrong, or do you just not like that they said it?

are they wrong? wrote:

Do you think they're wrong, or do you just not like that they said it?

They are definitely not wrong about the flyovers, but the Kamala/Biden comment is silly and I’m not at all convinced this was a “hot mic” moment. Like the left is so good at restraining spending. Go back 47 years and see how much the national debt has grown. As if this is always “our guy versus your guy.” What a pathetic, soon-to-be $hithole country we are becoming. Good luck millennials. Especially when the really wealthy move almost all of their money offshore, not just to FL from NY as is happening en masse because of insane tax regulations.

Fighter jet pilots must fly a certain number of hours per month to maintain their certs on the jet,

Does it look bad doing a flyover in front of a 25% (maybe) full stadium and is in a battleground state/area for the upcoming presidential election? Based on those optics, yes....but see my first point, so who cares when it's done?

Quit worrying about or even paying attention to what celebrities think. You will be better off for it.

They are right about flyovers. Some of the comments probably go back a few years when the Military was paying the NFL millions for patriotic displays.

Crazy notion - why not let sports be just sports?

No military flyovers

No "Salute to Service" week

No giant flags on the field

No national anthem

No political messaging

No statements or demonstrations of advocacy

Just play the game. Let viewers watch a contest without making it political. Think about it, do you have to stand for the national anthem before watching a game show? Does "The Bachelor" feature armed services recruiting commercials? How about a requirement that "Sports Center" anchors must wear camo / BLM t-shirts one day per week? Food Network's "Chopped" doesn't have any challenges where the mystery ingredients are fish sauce, daikon greens, pepper spray from a Portland riot, and an MRE leftover from the first Iraq war.

If you wish to begin healing the divides in this country, then stop forcing politics and propaganda into EVERY aspect of our lives.

Portland Hobby Jogger wrote:

Crazy notion - why not let sports be just sports?

No military flyovers

No "Salute to Service" week

No giant flags on the field

No national anthem

No political messaging

No statements or demonstrations of advocacy

Just play the game. Let viewers watch a contest without making it political. Think about it, do you have to stand for the national anthem before watching a game show? Does "The Bachelor" feature armed services recruiting commercials? How about a requirement that "Sports Center" anchors must wear camo / BLM t-shirts one day per week? Food Network's "Chopped" doesn't have any challenges where the mystery ingredients are fish sauce, daikon greens, pepper spray from a Portland riot, and an MRE leftover from the first Iraq war.

If you wish to begin healing the divides in this country, then stop forcing politics and propaganda into EVERY aspect of our lives.

Could not agree more.

Portland Hobby Jogger wrote:

Crazy notion - why not let sports be just sports?

No military flyovers

No "Salute to Service" week

No giant flags on the field

No national anthem

No political messaging

No statements or demonstrations of advocacy

Just play the game. Let viewers watch a contest without making it political. Think about it, do you have to stand for the national anthem before watching a game show? Does "The Bachelor" feature armed services recruiting commercials? How about a requirement that "Sports Center" anchors must wear camo / BLM t-shirts one day per week? Food Network's "Chopped" doesn't have any challenges where the mystery ingredients are fish sauce, daikon greens, pepper spray from a Portland riot, and an MRE leftover from the first Iraq war.

If you wish to begin healing the divides in this country, then stop forcing politics and propaganda into EVERY aspect of our lives.

Post of the day (week, month, year, all time)

Applies both ways. I go to a concert to listen to music, not some BS partisan propaganda. Same with sports, though I have stopped watching for the time being. Of course the media, Hollywood, and our liberal professors egg most of this on.

Aikman just went up in my book. Still don't care for Buck.

Literally millions of people on TV saw it, and a few thousand in the stadium and tens of thousands of people who live near the stadium.

And who cares if they saw it, part of the benefits of it is it counts as training for those pilots. There is more benefit than just people seeing them inside the stadium.

Every freaking aspect. I think we’re all burnt out. Also interesting that the ticket was “Kamala” at the beginning. I think we all see that Joe isn’t going to last 6 months.

Great post! I agree 100%.

Portland Hobby Jogger wrote:

Crazy notion - why not let sports be just sports?

No military flyovers

No "Salute to Service" week

No giant flags on the field

No national anthem

No political messaging

No statements or demonstrations of advocacy

Just play the game. Let viewers watch a contest without making it political. Think about it, do you have to stand for the national anthem before watching a game show? Does "The Bachelor" feature armed services recruiting commercials? How about a requirement that "Sports Center" anchors must wear camo / BLM t-shirts one day per week? Food Network's "Chopped" doesn't have any challenges where the mystery ingredients are fish sauce, daikon greens, pepper spray from a Portland riot, and an MRE leftover from the first Iraq war.

If you wish to begin healing the divides in this country, then stop forcing politics and propaganda into EVERY aspect of our lives.

I agree with you on this one. When Kaepernick started kneeling a few years ago and started the debate in the NFL, I couldn’t help but think it was dumb to have the national anthem play at a sporting event in the first place. It’s just a game.

I will jump onto this bandwagon.

This thing is also not really about tax dollars. Fighter pilots have to fly anyway for practice. But the problem is that everything gets politicized. There should be no military at a sports event, period.

confabulation wrote:

Also interesting that the ticket was “Kamala” at the beginning. I think we all see that Joe isn’t going to last 6 months.

Bogus dude. There’s no real significance in the order he happened to state them. I’d wager Biden will live longer than the obese 74 year old Trump, and I’m certain he’s more lucid and grounded in reality, even if he is experiencing some normal cognitive decline. One of them is demented but buoyed by narcissistic personality disorder and jacked up on adderall, and the other is an old guy who’s baffled by the strange behavior of the president and occasionally misspeaks and we’re supposed to believe the latter is the one with serious mental problems.

As an apology, Joe Buck will call his next few games with camouflage colored hair.

It’s the one color configuration he hasn’t used. This is the perfect opportunity:)

I love flyovers (Air NG did a few where I live this summer to salute medical workers) and I don't like Joe Buck or Aikman but I gotta agree, it seems quite pointless if it's not a full stadium. I don't know that military spending under Trump differs that much from under Obama or anyone else, I kinda doubt it. Maybe they had insider info that the White House was ordering flyovers to continue?