APThe Cleveland Browns’ trip to Indianapolis was delayed almost four hours Saturday when the team plane got stuck in the mud at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
The team was looking for a way to simultaneously annoy their players and create a perfect metaphor for the franchise’s return to Cleveland since 1999.
(Either that or the pilot miscalculated his route to the runway. Sucks to be that guy.)
Tony Grossi of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer reports that the team had to deplane and wait for a new plane to show up. The Browns eventually arrived in Indianapolis at 6:30 p.m. — roughly three and a half hours after they planned to get there.
Defensive coordinator Dick Jauron has not yet taken the blame for the error.
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Too easy
Pilots have been after Hopkins International for years, trying to get them to use tarmac on the runways.
Couldnt they just let Peyton Hillis push it out?
haha
The Colts were probably hoping the plane got stuck in the mud so they wouldnt get another manning less loss this weekend.
Just tie a long rope to the front of that plane and tell Peyton Hillis there’s a strong man competition outside….DONE DEAL.
By the time they got out of there they were cold, wet, muddy, and Browns.
Just like the team – STUCK IN THE MUD
…did Rachel Phelps have something to do with this…
Only the browns
“Browns team stuck in mud”
With 5 hour drives and under, I don’t understand why teams don’t take buses. By the time you drive to the airport, go through security, transfer to a bus at arrival airport, it probably takes longer.
The jokes really do write themselves for this team.
Hope they have a resurgence like the Lions one day though.
How can this not be a metaphor?
Well, that’s slightly ironic and a little ominous. lol
Kinda like their offense…
With so much concrete on tarmacs…seriously how do run them off the pavement? If I were them I’d be hoping we got a new pilot to go along with that new jet.
It was Dick’s fault. What else did you expect?
Stuck in the mud….just like the Brown’s franchise.
Where is the runway located, in a rice patty?
These kind of things only happen to the Browns.
Cleveland India…er, Browns suffering from propeller lag.
That sounds about right.
Classic Cleveland!!!! LOL!!!
- GO STEELERS!!!
Are the runways in Cleveland made of dirt?
oh wait this is a metaphor for the browns early season struggles. i get it!
DJ should of gotten his secondary out to push, he always has a huge amount of them around after the draft.
The metaphor is too easy to imagine…..
If you think you have a future in comedy…you don’t dumbass.
Why is he taxing the runway, shouldn’t the government do that. I personally think no one should be taxed. When did you guys’ go political?
Same old clowns. Inventing new was to suck.
lol
They could have charted a bus and drove to Indy, hell the way the economy is it would have saved money.
They have been stuck since returning to the NFL.
You really should proofread your copy before posting it on the internet. It’s spelled “offense,” not “plane.”
One day Cleveland can afford concrete. Maybe just plant some of that grass they play on each week. Word is the plane was further delayed because the guy who had to
spin the propeller on the team’s biplane forgot his top hat in the saloon.
How is this top news? I mean I love all things browns, but come on!!
Its not mud that they are stuck in.
LMAO!
Talk about symbolic. If not for bad luck, some franchises would have none at all.
That sounds about right.
The Browns have been stuck in the mud for 12 years.
ummm next
obvioulsy a metaphor for Cleveland’s entire season
Haha!
If Jauron would have been doing his due diligance last week and called a TO, Bruce Crapkowski wouldn’t have thrown that balloon pass to AJ Green on that Pearl Harbor play to beat the Brpwns!
This is kind of like the Browns running game with Fumbillis, stuck in the mud.
Browns stuck in the mud?
Just another Stain to add to the long Streak of
Browns hapless misadventures.
On top of everything else, they need a good pilot now?
Sheesh….
With 5 hour drives and under, I don’t understand why teams don’t take buses. By the time you drive to the airport, go through security, transfer to a bus at arrival airport, it probably takes longer.
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You really think they go through security like us?? This is a charter flight, no major terminal, easy access, believe me, it is much nicer than what we fly.
talkintrashallday says:
Sep 17, 2011 7:44 PM
Just like the team – STUCK IN THE MUD
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You’re a genius. See the very first post.
raqaiw says:
Sep 17, 2011 7:49 PM
The jokes really do write themselves for this team.
Hope they have a resurgence like the Lions one day though.
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Only a Lions fan would consider 6-10 last year and one win so far this season as a “resurgence.”
Now there’s a joke that wrote itself.
I was told their Air Attack improved this year…LIES!
What the hell was their plane doing in mud? How does a professional pilot leave the asphalt?
Ah … Jauron … he attacks everything with Defensive-backs … if he brought out some linemen or yes Peyton Hollis it wouldn’t have taken so long.
BUTt “You can never have enough defensive-backs” … even when your lines are crap!
Are you sure that Brown stuff is mud?
-QG
“Browns team stuck in mud”
Their cheerleaders too???
Is Tebow still stuck at 2.5 on the depth chart?
With the first pick in the 2012 NFL draft the cleveland browns select Glen Quagmire licensed pilot
GOD what a terrible franchise
Redskins Plane would dominate the sky!
I agree with @proBirdie
Drive a freakin Bus
Its alot of work (and money!!) these days to hop on a plane if its a short trip bus it
BROWNS SUCK
is there any way possible that cleveland can blame lebron james for this?
Murphys Law,(if anything could go wrong it will) applies to this hapless franchise.
The Browns have been stuck in the mud since the 80′s!!
Did they hit the Indians plane or Cavs plane?
LOL at the Browns! How does this happen? I cannot believe they have a dirt runway! We would never do that in the berg! Most of our infrastructure is built with excess nfl chapionship rings! We could build them a steel runway!
6 Rings!
Something symbolic here. This team inherited the history of a proud franchise and they’ve turned into the object of jokes. Sad.
6 rings…….
And 7 turnovers in your most important game so far this year. And a two game losing streak dating back to THE biggest game of last year. Just STFU already and go make your own league so we don’t have to listen to your dumb ass anymore.
What’s the over/under for Hillis fumbling today?
Did the mud set on fire too like their lake?
dino8500 says: “With the first pick in the 2012 NFL draft the cleveland browns select Glen Quagmire licensed pilot”
I usually hate posts that start out like that, but that one was pretty good.