Surprise Military Reunions At NFL Games Reach Peak Bull

[eponinepontmercy]

This post has everything:

Surprise military homecoming
NFL
Politics
Misleading headlines




deadspin.com/surprise-military-reunions-at-nfl-games-reach-peak-bull-1727940877

An excerpt:

Candace Ruocco Valentine is in fact a cheerleader for the St. Louis Rams. She made her debut this past weekend, at the very game at which her husband surprised her with his return from abroad. She’s several other things as well: a first lieutenant in the USMC (without wanting to scrutinize the gender politics of something that involves Rampage the Ram too closely, one might wonder why no headline writer went with “Husband Surprises Military Wife At Her Job”); a former White House intern who worked under Laura Bush; and a member of the Ruocco family, which is heavily involved in Illinois Republican politics.



August Valentine, meanwhile, is in fact a first lieutenant in the USMC. He made his surprise return to St. Louis, though, not from, say, the anxiety and peril of a security mission in Anbar province, but from a posting in South Korea, where combat operations wound down 62 years ago. He also happens to be not some anonymous leatherneck but a member of the galactically wealthy Busch family, which built the Anheuser-Busch corporation and, years after the sale of the business, retains incredible power in St. Louis. Valentine’s maternal grandfather, Gussie Busch, is generally credited with building the family business into the biggest brewery in the world; the Rams at one point played in a stadium named for the family.

Stay for the part where the woman's mother is running for state office in Illinois.

[IIOY]

As usual with articles like these, the comments are amazing.

[eponinepontmercy]

Sept 2, 2015 12:46:55 GMT -5 IIOY said:

As usual with articles like these, the comments are amazing.

Deadspin comments rarely disappoint.

[IIOY]

Sept 2, 2015 12:50:14 GMT -5 eponinepontmercy said:

Sept 2, 2015 12:46:55 GMT -5 IIOY said:

As usual with articles like these, the comments are amazing.

Deadspin comments rarely disappoint.

It's one of a few websites where I actually don't dread reading them.

[ttt]

"Poor soldier, having to attend a Rams game. Hasn’t he sacrificed enough?"

LOLOL

[tacosforlife]

Sept 2, 2015 12:51:52 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Sept 2, 2015 12:50:14 GMT -5 eponinepontmercy said:

Deadspin comments rarely disappoint.

It's one of a few websites where I actually don't dread reading them.

Feel free to share particularly good ones with those of us whose work computers are assholes that don't let us read them.

[eponinepontmercy]

Sept 2, 2015 13:33:39 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

Sept 2, 2015 12:51:52 GMT -5 IIOY said:

It's one of a few websites where I actually don't dread reading them.

Feel free to share particularly good ones with those of us whose work computers are assholes that don't let us read them.

And here I thought all the Denali nonsense was peak bullshit.

[pixy0stix]

I'm just sort of holy shit about the whole thing. Wealthy kids of a wealthy empire with a viral military homecoming video to support the campaign of a family member running for office.