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Globe sports scribes scramble like Elway to return from Buffalo

Print | Comments () Posted by Martin Finucane December 27, 2010 02:33 PM

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By Gregory Lee Jr., Globe Staff

Every day sports journalists live the routine of bringing the story to their audience. They give constant updates on the website to keep content fresh and meet tough deadlines for the newspaper. The follow the team from town to town.

But following Sunday’s Patriots game in Buffalo, the routine was broken for some Globe reporters by the blizzard that battered Boston.

The team was stranded, and so were several journalists. But the Patriots had to stay an hour east in Rochester because Buffalo is hosting the World Junior Hockey Championships and had no rooms left. The reporters had held onto their reservations and were able to stay in the city. The Globe's NFL writer Greg Bedard went to see some hockey action on Sunday.

With all flights canceled Monday, we tried desperately to rebook. But the next flights available would not depart until Thursday or Friday. One of our journalists got lucky. He had a flight that returns to Boston this evening.

We tried to hire a minivan with a driver to take us back to Boston.

Denied.

We tried to take Amtrak.

No dice.

We tried to get bus tickets.

No service.

So now we will drop off a rental car in Rochester to pick up another SUV and take two back to Boston. Oh yeah, our reporters will provide Patriots news on the return to Boston from the back seat, of course.