Post by Tom Goodrick on Nov 22, 2008 20:28:47 GMT -5
We take our football seriously here in America. For example, on any Saturday venture near an airport of a city that has a college or university playing top-level football (the kind with pointy ends) and you will see a bunch of private jets parked on the apron or vying for the next slot in the landing pattern. Of course, you'll also see a bunch of Bonanzas, Cessnas and Pipers bringing in some of the regular folks. (The rest came in their motorhomes and got there early so they can have a "tailgate party.")
Tonight there is a big game in Maryland between the University of Maryland and Florida State University. One of the top players for Florida State had to take time out today to go to Birmingham, AL, for a final competition to become a Rhodes Scholar. His coach, Bobby Bowden, made a few phone calls and found someone (probably a former football player) who owns a Westwind 24 jet in Tampa Florida to fly to Birmingham and pick the young man up and take him to Baltimore for the game.
I checked Flightaware and found the flights by N890BA from Tampa to Birmingham and to Baltimore in 1:37. Someone at the University of Maryland was kind enough to get the Maryland State Police to give Myron Rolles a police escort from KBWI to the Maryland stadium. His arrival is expected shortly although the game has started.
The scholarship means Rolles will complete his education properly in England. Who knows? Maybe he'll be the next Obama.
I suppose you could say it's crazy but it's a nice kind of crazy!
Tonight there is a big game in Maryland between the University of Maryland and Florida State University. One of the top players for Florida State had to take time out today to go to Birmingham, AL, for a final competition to become a Rhodes Scholar. His coach, Bobby Bowden, made a few phone calls and found someone (probably a former football player) who owns a Westwind 24 jet in Tampa Florida to fly to Birmingham and pick the young man up and take him to Baltimore for the game.
I checked Flightaware and found the flights by N890BA from Tampa to Birmingham and to Baltimore in 1:37. Someone at the University of Maryland was kind enough to get the Maryland State Police to give Myron Rolles a police escort from KBWI to the Maryland stadium. His arrival is expected shortly although the game has started.
The scholarship means Rolles will complete his education properly in England. Who knows? Maybe he'll be the next Obama.
I suppose you could say it's crazy but it's a nice kind of crazy!