Buffalo airport closed until Monday AM...Christmas in Chicago for the Bills?

[Beck Water]

31 minutes ago, SMAKCruiser said:

A Boeing 767 from Chicago is flying over my house (I live in Rochester), that's gotta be them!

 

 

 

This is allegedly their flight from Chicago.  Landed about 19 minutes ago.

Now how to get the guys from Roch-cha-cha to Orchard Park, Good Luck with that.

 

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL8859/history/20221225/1510Z/KORD/KROC

 

18 hours ago, zow2 said:

Per FlightRadar app,  Delta flight# 8859 from O’hare scheduled to arrive at Rochester airport on Sunday at 11:25am.

Boeing 767.  That’s the Bills flight.

 

Landed in Rochester per Flightaware.  And Bills Mafia was there!

 

 

Edited December 25, 2022 by Beck Water

[aristocrat]

Looks like barstool took care of the boys last night. Classy

[zow2]

So what about the players and coaches who drove to Buffalo airport and left their cars?  I assume they don't all take a bus.  Those vehicles are probably buried indefinitely!

[Bubba Gump]

14 hours ago, BobbyC81 said:

14 hours ago, Wacka said:

The highway scenes were filmed on a closed own 219.

Really?  As Johnny Carson used to say ‘I did not know that'

 

The scene of the train coming out of the tunnel was shot in South Dayton, NY. Also some scenes were from the Thruway near Batavia.

[Big Turk]

5 minutes ago, zow2 said:

So what about the players and coaches who drove to Buffalo airport and left their cars?  I assume they don't all take a bus.  Those vehicles are probably buried indefinitely!

 

Well...good luck. Hope they have snow shovels in the trunk.

[Wacka]

Nobody is traveling in Cheektowaga either. I live a few doors from William Street on a county road.  We have had a high lift come down the street once Friday, onceSaturday and once today, That is likely because there is a nursing home on the street. 

Landlord's son (landlord lives next door) tried cleaning out our drive,. Got one car length in and got his pickup with a plow stuck for about 2 hours this morning.

[boyst]

They'll be at their homes by nightfall. 

 

Damn it feels good to be right. 

Edited December 25, 2022 by boyst

[clayboy54]

6 minutes ago, boyst said:

They'll be at their homes by nightfall. 

 

Damn it feels good to be right. 

Your first time?

[boyst]

Just now, clayboy54 said:

Your first time?

Nope. It just never gets old. 

[Beck Water]

13 minutes ago, boyst said:

They'll be at their homes by nightfall. 

 

Damn it feels good to be right. 

 

I'd like you to be right here, but it seems kind of tenuous - unless the team rents a positive fleet of Snow Cats or something.

 

32 minutes ago, zow2 said:

So what about the players and coaches who drove to Buffalo airport and left their cars?  I assume they don't all take a bus.  Those vehicles are probably buried indefinitely!

 

I would like to think that the Bills had the forethought to tell the guys to come to Highmark  - ideally, get a ride - and bussed them to the airport.

 

If not, they're gonna have to get some high loaders to dig them out of the Charter terminal.  But no hurry, because I don't think they want to turn those guys loose to drive home from the airport.

Edited December 25, 2022 by Beck Water

[zow2]

8 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

 

I'd like you to be right here, but it seems kind of tenuous - unless the team rents a positive fleet of Snow Cats or something.

 

 

I would like to think that the Bills had the forethought to tell the guys to come to Highmark  - ideally, get a ride - and bussed them to the airport.

 

If not, they're gonna have to get some high loaders to dig them out of the Charter terminal.  But no hurry, because I don't think they want to turn those guys loose to drive home from the airport.

 

Ironic how the team and locals jumped through hoops to get the guys to Detroit in November for a game,,,, now they gotta reverse the process and get the guys back to their homes and families.  Its just nuts, what a crazy winter so far for Erie County.

[Billznut]

1 hour ago, aristocrat said:

Looks like barstool took care of the boys last night. Classy

Josh looking a little sauced last night. Good for him!

[YoloinOhio]

 

[stevewin]

36 minutes ago, Billznut said:

Josh looking a little sauced last night. Good for him

Drinking Bud Light - does Barstool River North not carry Blue Light 😜

 

That's pretty cool the bar did that - another bonding activity for the team - together drinking in a bar that's exclusively yours on Christmas eve

[Buddo]

The first one out looks a little lop sided 😁

[Buffalo_Stampede]

5 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

Bills are essential workers.

[zow2]

6 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

 

That’s so insane you just gotta laugh. No team has dealt with more weather nonsense in a season than this Bills club, probably in history.

[stevewin]

7 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

They should have put out an APB for fans on snowmobiles to come out and shovel the players out for tix to the last game

[Bob Jones]

Wow. So I’m guessing they were allowed to use the Thruway to get from Rochester to the Buffalo airport, and then they were all allowed to individually drive home from the airport to their homes in OP (or the south towns), while everybody else is locked down at home, and there is a standing traffic ban, with threats of arrest for being out on the roads!? Just Wow! Rules are for suckers, not NFL organizations, I guess. 🙄

Edited December 25, 2022 by Bob Jones

[Buffalo_Stampede]

7 minutes ago, Bob Jones said:

Wow. So I’m guessing they were allowed to use the Thruway to get from Rochester to the Buffalo airport, and then they were all allowed to individually drive home from the airport to their homes in OP (or the south towns), while everybody else is locked down at home, and there is a standing traffic ban, with threats of arrest for being out on the roads!? Just Wow! Rules are for suckers, not NFL organizations, I guess. 🙄

I’m sure they opened it up and players have strict instructions on where to go. Probably straight on the thruway and home.

 

It should be easy to understand how they could organize the players path home. They can’t open the roads up to everyone yet.