Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Truths About Traveling in the NFL

November 15, 2016   ·   Brad Gagnon   ·   Jump to comments

With the president of the United States waiting, Bob Eller had to make an executive decision.
It was June 7, 2001, and George W. Bush was set to meet the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens. Eller, the team's senior vice president of operations, had partnered with Amtrak to arrange for players and coaches to ride a "victory train" from Baltimore to Washington, D.C. 
But while buses carried the team from its headquarters to the train station, a tree went down on the tracks, cutting off southbound service to Washington.
"I just remember running out to greet the buses and explaining what happened, turning to the police escort and saying, 'We have to bus down to D.C., and we have to leave right now because the president's not gonna wait,'" Eller recalls.
The cops agreed to help, but they'd need gas for the trip. So there was Eller, waiting impatiently while buses filled with NFL players sat at a gas station as Baltimore police officers filled their motorcycle tank...

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