Thank you for flying Air Zoback
Most of you are familiar with Scott Zoback from the pages of Worcester Magazine. Now familiarize yourself with Scot Zoback as a guy who got stuck on a flight where a naked guy had to be subdued by a professional soccer team. Here’s the email dispatch from the field:
From: szoback@gmail.com
Subject: Nudity on planes is for lovers. Only.
Date: July 19, 2008 12:13:23 PM EDT
To: buckpaxton@gmail.comYou guys remember that scene in “Airplane” when the naked chick runs in front of the camera with her boobs all-a-bouncin? Great times.
Except when it happens in real life.
I was on a flight from Boston to LA yesterday that was already pretty interesting—the couple next to me had gotten off the flight before it started after the woman freaked out that she couldn’t fly, hyperventilated, cried, and bolted off the plane. Her husband debated with me what to do, (I suggested Valim), and eventually left with her. They were on their way to a honeymoon in Honolulu.
So we’re somewhere about halfway across the country when a guy comes out of the bathroom in his full on birthday suit, strolling back to his seat like it’s the most natural thing in the world. A New England Revolution official (oh, right…they were on the plane) stops the dude, eventually convinces him to get dressed (at one point they threw a blanket over him in his seat) and he goes back to the lav. He comes out again, and 15 minutes later makes a beeline for the exit door….the GM, a couple other Revs officials and a flight attendent “subdue” the guy. The pilot locks down the cabin, and immediately lands us in OK City which, from the sky, looks every bit as boring as I anticipated.
Anyway, they were pretty quick about getting us on to LA, although some people missed connections. I made mine to Monterey, CA…only to have them almost not land us because of the ongoing forest fires.
You can read the full story at the Boston Globe (bonus: story written by Milton Valencia, who I boxed for charity in 2006).
And thank you for flying Air Zoback.
link to the AP version of events.
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INTERESTING DENIAL FROM THE REVS…
From: Summers, Lizz {revolutionsoccer.net]
Folks -
Sorry for the mass email and if you haven’t heard back from me yet, please accept my apologies as it’s been quite hectic since landing in LA this afternoon as I’m sure you can understand.
At this point, everyone’s gotten interviews with either Craig Tornberg (General Manager and VP of Business Development), Mike Burns (VP of Player Personnel) or Gwynne Williams (Goalkeepers Coach) about the incident and their involvement in it. To be clear, NO Revolution players were involved in the incident.
From what I saw, no Revs actually touched the guy, but one player was definitely the one who alerted the flight attendant. And the two players sitting a few rows behind me were about to get up and run towards the front of the cabin to help, but were waved off by the guy I think was Tornberg.
Jeez, he can’t even manage to have a boring cross-country flight!