{"id":106388,"date":"2020-10-20T09:40:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T13:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=106388"},"modified":"2020-10-20T09:40:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T13:40:26","slug":"hearts-and-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106388","title":{"rendered":"Hearts and Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-106389 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1200px-National_Football_League_logo.svg_-218x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1200px-National_Football_League_logo.svg_-218x300.png 218w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1200px-National_Football_League_logo.svg_-768x1055.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1200px-National_Football_League_logo.svg_-242x333.png 242w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1200px-National_Football_League_logo.svg_.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Why do NFL players wear criminal&#8217;s names on their helmets when they are already on their jerseys?&#8221; -Anon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In an effort to further alienate conservative NFL fans, Fox Sports luminaries Troy Aikman and Joe Buck opine on the display of military aircraft overflights of stadiums on game day. The fact that showing the flag in this manner is a tried-and-true display of pro-American military public relations, and is budgeted, is lost on these two experts. Like most conservative NFL fans.<\/p>\n<p> Our own HMCS(FMF) ret sends.<\/p>\n<h3>Troy Aikman, Joe Buck mock NFL military flyover in hot-mic moment<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Victor Morton<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fox Sports\u2019 top NFL broadcast team mocked military flyovers before Sunday\u2019s featured game, calling them a wasteful exercise that Democrats wouldn\u2019t do.<\/p>\n<p>In hot-mic footage released by Defector Media \u2014 the offshoot of the defunct Deadspin \u2014 Joe Buck and Troy Aikman ridicule the practice of having the Pentagon\u2019s jets fly over NFL stadiums before kickoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a lot of jet fuel just to do a little flyover,\u201d Mr. Aikman said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Buck responded: \u201cThat\u2019s your hard-earned money and your tax dollars at work!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Aikman then implied that the spectacle of military flyovers is a Republican practice, while getting wrong the order of the Democratic presidential ticket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat stuff ain\u2019t happening with [a] Kamala-Biden ticket. I\u2019ll tell you that right now, partner,\u201d he told Mr. Buck.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange took place before Sunday\u2019s broadcast of the game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Green Bay Packers \u2014 a heavily promoted matchup of Hall-of-Fame-bound quarterbacks Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers.<\/p>\n<p>The two men seem unaware that the microphone is on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The two men also seem unaware of sport&#8217;s ratings being in the tank as viewers stay away in droves. I stream MotoGP for my sports fix, as most Professional American Ball Sports are dead to me. <\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/m.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/oct\/19\/troy-aikman-joe-buck-mock-nfl-military-flyover-hot\/\">The Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Senior Chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Why do NFL players wear criminal&#8217;s names on their helmets when they are already on their &hellip; <a title=\"Hearts and Minds\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106388\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hearts and Minds<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,447,406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-dick-stepping","category-guest-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106395,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106388\/revisions\/106395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}