Buck Buchanan

BGSU '93, Camera Operator @LateNightSeth, @TODAYShow, @giants, @nyjets

[Buck Buchanan @BGBuck]

@FreddyLA7 Rock n Roll Hall of Fame is sweet!

[Zlatan Ibrahimović @Ibra_official]

The studio will never forget

[Buck Buchanan @BGBuck]

@MilesParkerBets USA

[Buck Buchanan @BGBuck]

@elonmusk This is perfect!! Thanks again for doing this for us

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Europeans discovering America is some of the best content of the internet right now:

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

Thierry Henry admitting that he was moved and emotional after hearing the U.S. fans sing the national anthem ahead of their match against Paraguay, and then seeing the performance 🇺🇸🥹❤️

[Buck Buchanan @BGBuck]

@brooklyn21XX Sexiest casual Friday ever!!

[Buck Buchanan @BGBuck]

@SimoneEli_TV @PIX11Sports @PIX11News @NewsNation @nyknicks @WollmanRink @CentralParkNYC Boy did you pick the right year to start covering the Knicks!

[Buck Buchanan @BGBuck]

@brfootball Spike Lee isn’t the only fan of both!! Epic Times!! Which means the Giants are winning the Super Bowl!

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

The British mind attempts to comprehend American ribs for the first time 🇺🇸😭

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🗣️ Clint Dempsey on Jesse Marsch claiming they had to beg the USMNT players to sing the national anthem:

"I can’t take this guy too seriously. It was an honor for me growing up and representing my country. When the national anthem happened, I wasn’t someone who would normally sing. I put my hand over my heart and prayed to the good man upstairs. I’m someone who’s bled for this country. I broke my nose playing for this country. I’ve come back from two heart procedures and played for this country. So I’m not gonna take advice from someone who switched to the other side and singing another country’s national anthem."

[VIA: @FOXSoccer]

[Buck Buchanan @BGBuck]

@elonmusk I bought one share this morning-this is gonna be sweet!

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@bgsu @nyknicks @NBA @BGSU_Athletics @BG_Football @BGSUMBB @BGSUWBB It’s awesome here in NYC right now!

[Harry @FPL_Harry]

Anyone in New York! 🇺🇸 🏆

Sunday 14th June, a small FPL meet up to watch some World Cup football ⚽️

Long Acre Tavern Times Square from 1-6pm

Hopefully see some of you there! If you’d like to come please DM if you can so I can know rough numbers 🤝🙌

[Buck Buchanan @BGBuck]

@FPL_Harry Nice!! I work on the morning show in the studio behind you

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

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🚨🗣️ | Pep Guardiola Shocked on Arsenal fans Reaction towards Gabriel Magalhaes after missing the Penalty: 🤯

“I have to say something because I saw this and, honestly, it blew my mind. It blew my mind. We know how this business works. Usually, in a Champions League final, a player misses a crucial penalty against a top, top team like PSG, and the next day... it is a disaster for him. The social media, the media, it can be very, very cruel. Very ugly. You expect the anger, the threats, the terrible words. We see it all the time.

But what the Arsenal fans did for Gabriel? Wow. It is something else. Truly. To see a player fail in the most painful moment, and the response from the stadium, from the people, is just... pure love? I am told his shirt sales went up by three hundred and fifty percent in a few days. Three hundred and fifty percent! This is incredible. I have been in football a long, long time, as a player and a manager, and I have never seen anything like it. Never.

You know, you open Facebook, you open Instagram or Twitter, and the narrative is always the same. 'Arsenal fans are insufferable. They are the worst fanbase, they are annoying.' You hear this tag all the time. But I look at this gesture and I think, 'How?' How do they have this tag? If a fanbase can wrap their arms around a player like that, in the darkest moment of the club's history a trophy they have been dying to win for decades then everything we are told online is a lie. It is a massive misconception. They have been judged so harshly.
This shows me who they really are. It shows their class, their humanity, and their loyalty. To behave like this? It is not annoying, it is not insufferable. It is beautiful. They deserve incredible praise for this, because this is what football should be about”

[Louis Dunford @LouisDunford]

The Story of The Angel ❤️

[Gunners @Gunnersc0m]

The Met Police have confirmed that with 1.5m, today was the BIGGEST CELEBRATION IN HISTORY IN ENGLAND 🤯🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿