| Dallas did the Dolphins Wednesday. (Getty Images) |
Not long after falling to 0-4 in the preseason (a fact Joe Philbin's sure to lament once again on Hard Knocks), the Dolphins boarded a plane in Dallas to head home. That plane provided a potentially accurate metaphor for Miami's season, as it backed into another airplane on the runway.
No one, thankfully, was hurt, but as our pal Ben Volin of the Palm Beach Post notes, the team was stuck on the runway in Dallas for four hours.
This is not real life…team plane backed into another plane right before take off. Party at
— Jared Odrick (@JaredOdrick98) August 30, 2012@anthony_fasano ‘s old crib
The team planned on getting back home at 4-ish in the morning and instead ... yeah.
8:08 am. Just got home from Dallas.Longer trip ever!
— Matt Moore (@mattmoore_8) August 30, 2012
Moore and Odrick weren't the only members among this weary group of travelers who took to Twitter to complain either.
Just getting home from Dallas, Eight hour ordeal .. What a day
— Cameron Wake (@Kold91) August 30, 2012#4thumbsdown ...
But not all of them were willing to point out exactly what happened with the plane.
Just got home from the 8:30 pm game last night in Dallas. Been up for 24 hrs. Smh. Plane had technical problems.
— Gary Guyton (@GaryGuyton59) August 30, 2012
But maybe Guyton just didn't want to deal with answering a bunch of questions on Twitter about a plane accident. Whatever, those issues will be addressed on Tuesday's Hard Knocks, when we're probably likely to get a 30 Rock-like scene featuring a bunch of really happy football players stuck on a runway for four hours.
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