This weekend is our first two game road trip, with the game in Puerto Rico being nationally televised on Fox Soccer Channel so today, our guys headed out to the airport.
Well, almost.....
Due to the awesome weather in Dallas our guys were left stuck at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. What originally started out as a one to two hour wait evolved into a whole day waiting game.
The day went something like this…
What do you mean DFW is shut down? What do mean you’re going to miss your connecting flight? No, everyone needs to hang tight. Let me make some calls. Ok, we can take a bus to Dallas. Then catch a flight to Cleveland. No, No, it’s full. How about we send them to Atlanta? That won’t work since only two can get a seat. Wow! Everyone else is booking flights too. Why not go to Florida and make our way to Puerto Rico? Everyone else already thought of that and everything’s booked. How about we take a bus to Houston (leaves at 8:50 pm); no let’s rent five cars and catch a flight to Newark (Arrives at 1:24am) then take a shuttle to JFK. Once we are at JFK we can catch a little sleep in the terminal before we board our flight to Puerto Rico at 6:55am. No wait you might be able to get a flight in Houston that is direct to Puerto Rico. It leaves at 11:59pm. Ok, let’s hope this works. As a backup we might be able to catch one of two direct flights to Puerto Rico from DFW tomorrow morning (6:00am or 7:00am). Wait, Wait, Wait, Wait, Wait, Wait….. Please give me the Houston Flight at 11:59pm to Puerto Rico.
And the phone rings!!!!
I am sorry Mr. Wolf but we were not able to upgrade the 11:59pm flight to a bigger plane. The two options in Dallas are also a no go. Your only option to make it to Puerto Rico in time to rest a little and play on national television is the 8:50pm flight to Newark. Thinking…. Is a nationally televised game really worth it? Is there another way? We’ll let’s go for it this time and see what happens. The team is really going to love me.
Making the call to coach…
Hey Adrian, Yeah you guys are going to need to rent the cars and book it to Houston. They’ll delay the flight for up to 30 minutes. No I am not kidding. I don’t know why this country is so big. I’m really sorry but it is the only option. Ok, keep me posted.
I think he took that well.
To be continued…
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Shoot...sorry the team is having trouble getting to Puerto Rico, but I thought this was going to tell us how the Aztex Camps are going in their 1st week!
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