>> That's a lot of jet fuel, just to do a little flyover.
>> That's your hard-earned money and your tax dollars at work.
>> That stuff ain't happening with Kamala-Biden ticket, I'll tell you that right now.
>> That is Joe Buck and Troy Aikman sarcasticly mocking military flyovers.
That the NFL conducts for paid patriotism in their taxpayer funded stadiums.
>> Cheerleader, her husband August, just came back soothing oversees.
>> From military men arriving back to greet their cheerleader wives.
>> Am I being unfair by saying as a fan, I don't wanna see politics on game day.
>> Here's the right wing's response to a tee every time.
>> They become like a political organization and that's not a good thing.
>> And the white supremacist president despises the mixing of sports and politics, unless
of course, it's something. I'm gonna be watching Colby, I'm a big fan of Colby, he's a winner,
he's is a champ.
And it's gonna be a great evening, a great fight and I just wish him best of luck. But
I just seen him a lot, and he's tough, good luck champion.
>> Thank you, I appreciate it Mr. President. >> Or someone he thoroughly supports, Joe
buck and Troy Aikman, longtime partners in the broadcast booth for Fox, express their
tried and true view of the military's cosplay in NFL stadiums.
The transcription goes as follows, that's a lot of jet fuel just to do a little flyover.
Joe Buck sarcastically, that's your hard-earned money and your tax dollars at work. And then
Aikman sarcastically, that stuff ain't happening with a Kamala-Biden ticket, I'll tell you
that right now partner. With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing teams to play games in empty
or near empty stadiums, putting on a big pregame display with a flyover doesn't make much sense.
Buck and Aikman pointed out just how much a waste flyovers have become this year on
Sunday afternoon, though they didn't mean to be heard. Even as coronavirus cases spike
in this country through the gross incompetence of the president and his all lives really
don't matter cabinet, they chose to masquerade their true feelings with a, hey look, in the
sky, jets, military stuff.
Now we don't care your loved ones and friends died because we call this thing a hoax, you
thought we did, here's a jet though. The decision comes amid Trump's frequent use of military
symbolism to convey American strength, sometimes in controversial ways, like the cost, which
runs roughly $60,000 per hour to operate.
Meanwhile, in hospitals, nurses and doctors use trash bags to fight COVID and people are
dying because the loan money ran out. But, go off Mr. President, lest we forget the inclusion
of flyovers and symbolism of the military at sporting events has been a mainstay. The
late John McCain and former senator Jeff Flake found through a joint oversight report, the
Pentagon has signed 72 contracts with teams in the NFL, MLB, NHL and MLS that amounted
to paid patriotism.
The Pentagon said the payments were part of its recruitment campaigns which is just disgusting,
and you know who despise this thoroughly? >> Air Force now US veteran.
>> Submarine officer. >> Air Force.
>> Marine. >> I was raised as a Republican.
>> When I served in Afghanistan, I served with women, I served with Muslims and I served
with Latinos, all groups that Donald Trump has maligned and even threatened.
Veterans, to me, it's not something that I see should be flying over a sports stadium
before a baseball or football game. You know, these are weapons of death. They may be required,
but they certainly shouldn't be celebrated and applauded, said Bill Astore to Howard
Bryant. Astore is a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel.
Senate investigators report that the Department of Defense has spent more than $9 million
over the last 4 years on military tributes at sporting events. Ten teams were paid handsomely
for these displays including in 2017, finishing one, two in paid patriotism, the Atlanta Falcons
and the New England Patriots.
To learn that these had been paid for, that corporate teams, teams owned by billionaires,
basically, were collecting money from the military, paid for obviously by you and me,
by the American taxpayer, well, it was sad.