“Cheap advertising for recruiting.”
Your tax dollars paid to the NFL.
“Your tax dollars paid to the NFL.”
Not sure what you mean.
Fly-bys are done primarily for recruiting purposes, to show the taxpayer what their dollars buy. . .and the pilots have flight requirements, they must fly various missions to maintain currency and proficiency, so the bucks for flying a fly-past would have been spent anyway, so might as well do a mission that advances the profile of what we have and actually help keep proficiency.
I would fly cross country to all points in the US, sometimes would drop in for a fly-past of some game somewhere if requested, and that beat the heck out of flying straight and level around the local airspace.
The military simply schedules training during the game. They fly in formation for 40 seconds over the stadium at a specified time. Not really spending extra $$ except maybe some fuel to veer out of their typical areas for practice.
That’s the only way the nfl gets my money. The government steals it, as per usual.