Football Team's Woes Compounded By Stuck Plane

If you think your weekend was bad, top this.The Buffalo Bills had a really lousy weekend in Cleveland, OH. (No, that's not meant to be redundant -- Ed.)

First off, the team played the Cleveland Browns in a football game dubbed the "blizzard bowl" by television commentators. A winter storm dumped so much snow on the field, officials Sunday had a hard time spotting yard-line hashmarks.

Both teams played poorly... but the Bills played more poorly than the Browns, lost by a score of 8-0, and were mathematically eliminated from the postseason for the eighth year in a row.

Then, to add insult to injury... and to explain why you're reading of a football game in Aero-News... the pilot of their chartered Delta flight took a turn wide at Cleveland Hopkins International, sending the plane off the pavement.

"It seems like when it rains it pours. But in this case it's snow," defensive end Chris Kelsay told The Associated Press by phone. "It's definitely been an odd weekend."

The Boeing 767 wound up stuck in the mud, so the hapless warriors were loaded on five chartered buses for the 200-mile trip back to Buffalo.

The plane was reportedly successfully towed out of its quagmire. The Bills hope that's a metaphor for next season.

IDENTIFICATION
  Regis#: 128DL        Make/Model: B767      Description: B-767
  Date: 12/17/2007     Time: 1443

  Event Type: Incident   Highest Injury: None     Mid Air: N    Missing: N
  Damage: Unknown

LOCATION
  City: CLEVELAND   State: OH   Country: US

DESCRIPTION
  N128DL, DELTA AIRLINES FLIGHT 9835, A BOEING 767 AIRCRAFT, SLID OFF THE
  TAXIWAY AND THE RIGHT MAIN GEAR BECAME STUCK IN THE GRASS, NO INJURIES
  REPORTED, CLEVELAND, OH

INJURY DATA      Total Fatal:   0
                 # Crew:   0     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   
                 # Pass:   0     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   
                 # Grnd:         Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:   

WEATHER: NOT REPORTED

OTHER DATA
  Activity: Business      Phase: Taxi      Operation: Air Carrier

  FAA FSDO: CLEVELAND, OH  (GL25)                 Entry date: 12/18/2007

FMI: www.faa.gov, www.buffalobills.com/