For absurdity, how about those four Navy F-18s flying over the stadium - with its retractable roof closed? Everybody inside could only see the planes on the stadium's video screens. It was strictly a two-second beauty shot. Know what it cost taxpayers? I'll tell you: $450,000. (The Navy justifies the expense by saying it's good for recruiting.)
It's one of life's cruelest thorns that flying a high-performance aircraft like that is economically and ecologically irresponsible and an exercise in warcraft. To shoot past billowy clouds, fly straight upward in a corkscrew roll, accelerate like the Big Bang -- "to touch the face of God", like the TV sign-off used to say -- is too important to waste on military officers. Unless they are also Zen masters or something.
Lunging and sprinting in shoulder pads and helmets is not really the point. Have you ever tried to eat a cardboard tray of nachos and drink a Miller Lite in 104 degree weather? The cheese liquifies, and the beer can reach British-like temperatures.
Stop griping ya liberaltarians. $450K is practically nothing. It would only fund ten teachers for a year. You can't compare that with 2 seconds of teevee time at the Stupor Bowl.
wait!! we do have a reason to live?
"You ever put on a full set of pads in a Texan fall "
Texas players are menstruating?
It's one of life's cruelest thorns that flying a high-performance aircraft like that is economically and ecologically irresponsible and an exercise in warcraft. To shoot past billowy clouds, fly straight upward in a corkscrew roll, accelerate like the Big Bang -- "to touch the face of God", like the TV sign-off used to say -- is too important to waste on military officers. Unless they are also Zen masters or something.
Think "air conditioning."
Kind of an expensive way to knock the ice off of the roof. Texas, land of the overkill.
Lunging and sprinting in shoulder pads and helmets is not really the point. Have you ever tried to eat a cardboard tray of nachos and drink a Miller Lite in 104 degree weather? The cheese liquifies, and the beer can reach British-like temperatures.
Stop griping ya liberaltarians. $450K is practically nothing. It would only fund ten teachers for a year. You can't compare that with 2 seconds of teevee time at the Stupor Bowl.