The Marine Color Guard is good enough to parade the colors for the Superbowl.
Not good enough to hang around and watch the game.
Just business, I guess.
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Perhaps some CAS is called for from the pre-game flyover 4 ship?
Sent telegram to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell “#%$# You! Strong letter follows.”
TC6Flyer … What’s CAS? I hope it’s unpleasant….
Marianne
Lex: Thanks for the link.
I am awaiting a reply from the NFL about this, I do hope they step up and reply.
BTW: Nice reference to “Tommy”
That is insane. NFL trump this up as America’s game, then shoo them out of the building.
What a disgrace.
I would rather pay to hang out with that Honor Guard than watch that game.
Dan
That is insane. NFL trumps this up as America’s game, then shoo’s them out of the building.
What a disgrace.
I would rather pay to hang out with that Honor Guard than watch that game.
Dan
Marianne:
CAS – Close Air Support – what Lex used to do when he dropped bombs on people….as in Close to friendly people who needed his Support…
“Escorted from the field” by whom?
If the Marine Honor Guard decided they wanted to watch the game and simply took up a position on the sidelines after the ceremony, who would have the cojones to escort them off the field?
And, if somebody tried, you have to know that the media would jump on it and broadcast the riot which would ensue after the crowd near the Marines realized that somebody was trying to throw them out of the game…
Hmm…methinks some civil disobedience might be fun to watch AND instructive for the nitwits at the helm of the NFL…
I’d rather watch the Marines kicking a** than the game anyway.
BTW nice cartoon at the top of the linked page. My wife and I were dismayed to see the amount of garbage on the mall after the inauguration, with all the enviro supporters supposedly in the crowd.
I sent an email to O’Reilly at Fox News. Hopefully they will get to the bottom of it. Didn’t think the Comish would take my call but I’d bet the PR department at the NFL will take theirs.
The Marines would never do that, though. They obey orders no matter how unpleasant. And I’m afraid that that the corporate crowd at the Super Bowl would be neither sober enough to notice nor commited enough to care.
OTOH, if someone happened to mention to the team whose sideline they were on how the matter stood, I doubt anyone would be able to get close enough to the Marines to issue the order.
Unbelievable! I emailed the NFL (don’t expect much) and the Steelers (they’ll fix it). Maybe if enough people raise a little hell the NFL will realize the error of their ways.
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Un-bleeping-believable (only the bleep really isn’t a bleep).
What does the country do if men like them realize the country is worth defending anymore? There are some of us that will stand with those like us, but we are heading to a time when good men will say it isn’t worth it anymore, and we will get a military like most African countries that is just one more way to reward your cronies, if they don’t hate the military unconditionally, that is.
The NFL should be ashamed of this ridiculous decision. It’s hard to imagine that a high level official would do this… if so, how about having the Marines give the NFL a “pass”.
The decision maker on this fiasco is living proof that “the clerk is a jerk!”
The obvious answer here is that the DoD should perhaps reconsider its support of this event.
I’m really disappointed in the NFL on this one. One of their star players left to fight and was killed. Pat Tillman, wasn’t it? And didn’t he play for the Cardinals? And aren’t the Cards playing? Some one with more clout than me ought to get in contact with the Card’s team owner…
Sorry I am so divorced from this specticle but it seems to me that we need to go after the advitisors and broadcastors of this event. Let them know that we will not buy their products nor watch the event. The NFL could care less unless it hurts their pocket books. We have the wrong people in our gun sights.
“For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of ‘is country” when the guns begin to shoot;
An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please;
An’ Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool — you bet that Tommy sees!”
-Rudyard Kipling
Wouldn’t it be a shame if the color guard were to get “stuck in traffic” enroute to the game?
I understand the pre-game traffic can be brutal.
I have not been much of a NFL fan as of the last few years. I haven’t seen a game start to finish since 1997. It is full of too many “men” too full of themselves. But I will contact the No Fun League about this one. I actually heard the loudmouth of ESPN, Chris Berman use that on a SportsCenter in the 1980’s. And the Chairman of The Joint Chiefs should declare the NFL off limits. Like the old days of declaring certain establishments off limits to active duty personnel. Hit em where it hurts, the bank account.
When this does hit the proverbial fan, commisioner goodell will be back pedaling and in full DC mode.
The CAS during the flyover does sound sweet, doesn’t it?
Salvo fired. Wait. Out.
What XBradTC said. No color guard; no fly-over. Have a nice day. That would get press attention.
As a former bandsman (at the right of the line, with the _colors_) the Marines have my entire sympathy. I’ve watched a bunch of football games while wearing a band uniform, including a playoff game, the one before the Superbowl, when I was in high school. (Did you know that an Oakland Raider lineman can really crumple a Sousaphone?) Methinks I’ll add my tiny weight to right side of this with an email.
Playing the afterburner arrangement for the pregame show at the Orange Bowl game, my last year of high school, was fun. Coupla F-4s came over just at “rockets’ red glare.” Then we marched off to our seats and got to watch the game. If they could do that for a hundred kids, you’d think it could be done for a dozen or so Marines
Umm, that should have been “…afterburner arrangement of The Star-Spangled Banner…”
I do wish this place had preview.
Stupid dummies.
If I was commissioner I’d let ‘em walk the sidelines in their dress blues for the entire game. Imagine the positive press!
Thoise young Marines being on the sidelines would add to the peagentry and the spectacle. I’ll bet the camera men would have a field day with those images and the American people like me who watch the NFL would feel good.
b2
I can’t believe that the NFL can be that flippen tonedeaf to the impact this moumentally petty decision is going to have on their precious image…my prediction, based on absolutly nothing whatsoever, is that the Leathernecks will ultimately be allowed to stay and watch the game…of course by then the damage will have already been done…
That said…I think the sh*t- bird responsable for this fu*k-up should be summarily shot…by the Marines… it works for me… Semper Fi… Jarhead Buds. Best
PS, JTG, Please tell me it’s true…an Oakland lineman really crumpled your big-assed Sousaphone?
I sent an e-mail to a friend who works for the Steelers. He said that they have gotten several about this issue. His office manager is printing them up and putting them in to a folder that will be given to Art Rooney. Let’s see what happens.
Nope, Snake, It was somebody else’s sousaphone. At least the sousaphonist wasn’t wearing it at the time.
I was holding an alto clarinet. Yeah, I know.
No, belay that. It was a regular Bb clarinet, it being football season. Played the alto in concert season; easier parts. Heck, it was forty years ago, one must cross-check memories that old.
Change of heart. Following is a reply to my email.
Thank you for your email.
Our longstanding support of the military is a proud NFL tradition, including numerous NFL players and coaches traveling overseas with the USO to visit troops. Last summer, Commissioner Goodell, Drew Brees, and Osi Umenyiora went on a USO trip to Iraq and Afghanistan with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen.
Since we had not heard about this directly from the military, we contacted our military liaison for the color guard immediately to discuss the issue. After speaking with our military liaison for the color guard, we will host the members of the color guard (12 people) in the stadium.
The background is this:
The members of the color guard have always been our guests at a Super Bowl party in a compound on the stadium grounds where they watch the game on big-screen TVs and enjoy food and beverage. That is how we have done it every year. The military provides an intra-service color guard as part of our pre-game tribute to the military that also includes the military fly-over of the stadium. Then we arrange a place for the color guard to watch the game along with other pre-game and halftime show participants (more than 2,000 people).
We appreciate your commitment to the NFL.
Best,
Mallory Steinberg
NFL Communications and Public Affairs
Looks like reason has prevailed and they’ve come around to b2’s point of view. With all of the whuffos and doo-dahs milling around on the sidelines at the average pro football game, I would think that adding a dozen Marines to the mix would inject some class and coolness into the situation.
Being in the Color Guard is not such an easy deal in a huge stadium with roaring fans. My freshman year at LSU I was in the Color Guard for football games. Could barely hear commands with OIC yelling at top of lungs–hard to step off the initial line in even formation when you can’t hear the call.
Of course I was AFROTC–so what does the Air Force know about marching, right?
Et tu, Virgil?
Ah, yes, the silliness of AFROTC. Actually there were some serious people there. I remember Cap’n Pollard apprising us of the Kent State shoot-em-up. We arrived in the bowels of the Knowles Building (AFROTC was most definitely the most junior of the three at Ga. Tech. Definitely. Definitely.)
He came in, we came to attention, he bade us sit down, and then asked us what we thought about what had happened the day before. I swear nine tenths of us went “Huh?”. He then proceeded to get all over us about being nerds and techies and not paying attention to what was going on in the outside world.
He closed by recounting his participation in a student riot in 1948, when a talmadge (I forget which one) was occupying the Ga. governor’s office illegally.
Well, I see I’m coming in late to the fight, but it’s too bad that someone couldn’t've gotten word to the Cardinals about the mixup. Seems that Kurt Warner’s bride is herself a former Marine, judging from her recent comments seen at http://www.veteransadvantage.com/VetFamily/KurtWarner.html
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Recently, Kurt Warner, the once-again resurgent star quarterback enroute to his third Super Bowl appearance, offered thanks to God and his U.S. Marine Corps Veteran wife.
“He is an incredible person on his own,” said Brenda during a recent vacation visit to Parris Island, of all places. “He sets goals very high. I just encourage him to give it all he’s got and never hold anything back. That is what the Marine Corps taught me … no matter what you do … give it all you’ve got. Be the best you can be, and don’t do anything halfway.”
“I cherish the title of Marine,” she said. “Every time I carry myself, I carry myself with the ideals and character the Marine Corps gave me to be better at all I do and show me that the world is bigger than my little world … that I am a part of a bigger whole, and I want to make it better.”
Guess I know who I’ll be rooting for in Super Bowl XLIII… OoohRah!
I am glad that the NFL saw the light on this one. Thanks Lex, and everyone else who took this ball and ran with it.
Now if only we could do something about Olbermann being on the broadcast…