Nope. No leap for you!

[mmmdk]

I think he said 'No...No!'.

[RashanGary]

Also, he seems to be a little carried away. I mean, calm down. It was a football game. Geesh.

No shit, right. That guy is a nut case. Someone has a really, really bad life. The football player is just having fun. That guy doesn't know what fun is.

[George Cumby]

No shit, right. That guy is a nut case. Someone has a really, really bad life. The football player is just having fun. That guy doesn't know what fun is.

How the fuck do you know if he doesn't know what fun is?

Who would I rather hang with, entitled spoiled athlete or the Gunny?

Check it out in real time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4o6h...ayer_embedded#!

No big deal, happens real fast.

Also, check out the cop and security dude behind the Gunny. They have a good laugh about it.

[Pugger]

The best thing about that clip is the reaction of the cop behind the Gunny and the guy in the black shirt after the Marine said 'No no no' to the idiot player.

[pbmax]

The best thing about that clip is the reaction of the cop behind the Gunny and the guy in the black shirt after the Marine said 'No no no' to the idiot player.

You mean screamed "NOOOOOOOOOOO" "NOOOOOOOOOOOO" to a football player who just scored a touchdown in a football stadium and is providing entertainment to 80,000 paying customers?

[Pugger]

Didn't you see the cop and the guy in the black shirt laughing at the entire situation?

[SkinBasket]

I don't understand what the Marine's purpose was there. Fan? Security? Whatever it was, it isn't his job to correct the player on anything. He wasn't out of line there. What was he doing that was sooo bad. So what, he told the crowd to sush! Big freaking deal. Don't Marines protect our right to free speech? Also, he seems to be a little carried away. I mean, calm down. It was a football game. Geesh.

Now a Marine needs a "purpose" to exist somewhere? Well excuse him for being somewhere that confuses you. He's only spent his adult life protecting your complainy ass. Would you be happier if a fat union electrician had been the one to take issue with the player's unimaginative, egomasturbatory behavior? Or a hot dog vender? Your mom?

[Patler]

OK, I did about 30 seconds worth of research, and discovered the following:

- the Gunny is part of their ROTC program and is well-known around campus.
- the Gunny is said to be a cool guy, but also a stickler for protocol and detail (after all, he is a Gunny, which of them aren't?).
- the player actually started to salute the Gunny (you can sort of see that in the clip)
- the Gunny snapped to immediately and put a stop to it.

Makes sense, because:

1. The Gunny is never going to allow himself to be used as a prop.
2. It's not proper to salute the Gunny even if you are enlisted, unless the Gunny is wearing the Medal of Honor or a few unique situations.
3. It is not proper for a civilian to salute the Gunny anyway.

This Gunny, and any other that I have known, is not about to let the player have his fun at the expense of the Gunny, his uniform or the military.

Thanks Gunny, and I respect the way you handled it, direct, upfront and no doubt.

[pbmax]

Now a Marine needs a "purpose" to exist somewhere? Well excuse him for being somewhere that confuses you. He's only spent his adult life protecting your complainy ass. Would you be happier if a fat union electrician had been the one to take issue with the player's unimaginative, egomasturbatory behavior? Or a hot dog vender? Your mom?

Don't most Marines in full dress uniform have a purpose when they are in public, especially on the sidelines of a football game? I thought Color Guard but Patler's post seems to indicate otherwise.

[pbmax]

OK, I did about 30 seconds worth of research, and discovered the following:

- the Gunny is part of their ROTC program and is well-known around campus.
- the Gunny is said to be a cool guy, but also a stickler for protocol and detail (after all, he is a Gunny, which of them aren't?).
- the player actually started to salute the Gunny (you can sort of see that in the clip)
- the Gunny snapped to immediately and put a stop to it.

Makes sense, because:

1. The Gunny is never going to allow himself to be used as a prop.
2. It's not proper to salute the Gunny even if you are enlisted, unless the Gunny is wearing the Medal of Honor or a few unique situations.
3. It is not proper for a civilian to salute the Gunny anyway.

This Gunny, and any other that I have known, is not about to let the player have his fun at the expense of the Gunny, his uniform or the military.

Thanks Gunny, and I respect the way you handled it, direct, upfront and no doubt.

All sounds reasonable except the player was not facing the Marine, the Marine has to take a full step right to stand in front of him. The player had an almost entirely uncontested run down the field, if his purpose was to face and salute the Marine, how did he miss him?

The Marine put up his right hand, not to stop a salute, but to stop the player. His behavior suggests to me he didn't want the player to approach the stands. But if he isn't security, why?

[Patler]

All sounds reasonable except the player was not facing the Marine, the Marine has to take a full step right to stand in front of him. The player had an almost entirely uncontested run down the field, if his purpose was to face and salute the Marine, how did he miss him?

The Marine put up his right hand, not to stop a salute, but to stop the player. His behavior suggests to me he didn't want the player to approach the stands. But if he isn't security, why?

Geez, how do you know why he put up his right hand? He barely waived it a little above his waist, then assumed the hands-on-hips stance and began shouting.

Reports from those at the game and apparently in the end zone left no doubt that the player attempted to salute the Gunny. Maybe other players had saluted the Gunny, and he decided to end it. Maybe the player just noticed the Gunny as he got there, and started the salute while looking sideways at him, and the Gunny jumped directly in front to confront him.

What makes you think the player was going to jump into the stands? We don't know that was his intention.

[George Cumby]

Don't most Marines in full dress uniform have a purpose when they are in public, especially on the sidelines of a football game? I thought Color Guard but Patler's post seems to indicate otherwise.

Military have no civilian authority. Posse comitatus and all that jazz.

[mraynrand]

When I am lying, dying in my deathbed, I will reflect on the awesome significance of this thread, and how it justified my existence.

[pbmax]

Geez, how do you know why he put up his right hand? He barely waived it a little above his waist, then assumed the hands-on-hips stance and began shouting.

Reports from those at the game and apparently in the end zone left no doubt that the player attempted to salute the Gunny. Maybe other players had saluted the Gunny, and he decided to end it. Maybe the player just noticed the Gunny as he got there, and started the salute while looking sideways at him, and the Gunny jumped directly in front to confront him.

What makes you think the player was going to jump into the stands? We don't know that was his intention.

Fair point on the hand, from the real-time footage its not a defensive move, its a sharper gesture of disapproval. He is already giving the player what-for.

I don't think he was going to jump into the crowd. I think the Longhorn fans in the endzone were inviting him to jump. While he was in the endzone, before he was in front of the Marine, he put up his hand palm out as if to gesture stop, be calm or quite. I think he was going to celebrate with or taunt the crowd in the endzone from the ground because fans of both teams were in there.

If he was going to salute the Marine, he was gesturing the wrong way.

[pbmax]

When I am lying, dying in my deathbed, I will reflect on the awesome significance of this thread, and how it justified my existence.

You know you will remember the Favre thread long after this.