When did football players become such pussies?

[airdvr 210]

Browns ‘lucky to be alive’ after terrifying flight back to Cleveland

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“We’re actually pretty lucky to be alive right now, to be honest. We really escaped one. We got away with one last night.”

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/11/cleveland-browns-severe-weather-terrifying-flight/

Now they know what being one of their fans has been like for the past 50 years.

Please don't dent the planet.

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[CanuckInUSA 0]

We are Marshall

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

[lawrocket 3]

THis one less famous..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Poly_football_team_plane_crash

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[CanuckInUSA 0]

lawrocket

THis one less famous..

Dang you got me there. I wasn't aware of that one, so yeah it is less famous by equally tragic.

This one didn't happen all that long ago.

But this one, is one of the more well known accidents

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[ryoder 1,590]

Wichita State - 1970:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_State_University_football_team_plane_crash

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[Boogers 0]

I believe that pro football players make enough money that they could rent a car and drive themselves home if they were scared of an airplane... No one forced them to get on it.

[Croc 0]

You mean like, say, from San Francisco to Boston? Seattle to Miami? Phoenix to New York?

Think about it.

"Here's a good specimen of my own wisdom. Something is so, except when it isn't so."

Charles Fort, commenting on the many contradictions of astronomy

[LuckyMcSwervy 0]

Boogers

I believe that pro football players make enough money that they could rent a car and drive themselves home if they were scared of an airplane... No one forced them to get on it.

Didn't John Madden refuse to fly and had his own tour bus set up?

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[regulator 0]

Ever hear of a soccer 'football' team from uraguay that got stranded in the andes that had to result to drastic measures?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106246/

[mjosparky 4]

LuckyMcSwervy

***I believe that pro football players make enough money that they could rent a car and drive themselves home if they were scared of an airplane... No one forced them to get on it.

Didn't John Madden refuse to fly and had his own tour bus set up?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Madden#Fear_of_flying

Sparky

My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

[Boogers 0]

Croc

You mean like, say, from San Francisco to Boston? Seattle to Miami? Phoenix to New York? Think about it.

This particular flight was from Cleveland to Cincinnati, and the team had a bus on standby to drive the players home. It's in the news story. Read about it.

[CanuckInUSA 0]

Why did the football team get on the plane instead of driving home? They did it because they thought they would save time. Why did Buddy Holly get on an airplane? Because he thought he would save time. If you knew for certain that your plane would crash given the weather conditions, naturally you would not board it. But planes do fly in bad weather, and this football team is not the first, nor will they be the last to get on an airplane during questionable weather in order to save time.

LOL ... it is amusing listening to a bunch of skydivers debate this. Most of us have gotten on an airplane when we shouldn't have and these pro football players do NOT have a monopoly on being scared in an airplane. While bad weather was not in the equation, I remember being on a Twin Otter with a load of skydivers when right after takeoff one of the engines failed. The pilot did not panic, she told everyone to stay put, she was doing a go around and was going to attempt to land. Yes here we were on a plane full of skydivers, there were a few people who were scared, probably just as scared as the ball players. BTW ... we landed safely, the problems was diagnosed and skydiving operations resumed soon after the problem was fixed.

If you do NOT want to risk dying in an airplane crash, then by all means stay on the ground.

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[kidicarus 0]

That wouldn't be the one where the observer hit the prop limiter switch, would it?