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Just because you can’t fly doesn’t mean you can skip your walkthrough.
The Colorado State football team conducted a workout Friday night on the airport tarmac while dealing with the fallout from the nationwide flight grounding.
The team’s X account posted a collage showing the team working out in advance of traveling to Washington for Saturday’s 10:30 p.m. ET clash against Washington State, including several shots of a center preparing to snap the ball and a pair of coach Jim Mora making the rounds at Northern Colorado Regional Airport, according to The Spokesman-Review.
The Rams later posted at 12:24 a.m. Saturday that they safely landed in Washington.
Colorado State and plenty of other college football teams had their schedules affected Friday night, and the Pac-12 school offered a cool behind-the-scenes look at how they adjusted.
Teams can conduct light walkthroughs the day before games, and obviously doing so on a tarmac called for extra caution.
The variety of shows also showcased the complexity of the situation, with some featuring open skies and others showing the sun going down in Colorado.
It appears the Rams took off at approximately 10 p.m., since the school posted at 9:56 p.m. a shot of Mora walking up stairs onto the plane with the caption: “Wheels up to Pullman 🛫.”
Saturday’s game featuring the 3-6 Rams against the 1-8 Cougars is going on as scheduled, while others around the country have been delayed or postponed.
Oklahoma’s athletic director Roger Denny notably ripped the SEC after the league postponed its home clash against Ole Miss from Saturday to Sunday due to travel issues the Rebels experienced.
“I understand that difficult decisions sometimes must be made under extraordinary circumstances. But those decisions must also consider the impact on everyone involved,” Denny wrote in an X post on Saturday.
“Put simply, this decision isn’t fair to our athletes, our institution, or to Sooner Nation. We’ve been given no other choice. We are obligated to play this game when directed, but we remained steadfast in our belief that the wrong outcome was reached this evening.”
