Planes, trains and…buses? Argonauts’ bus reportedly breaks down en route to Edmonton

The Toronto Argonauts figured they'd simplify their travel by staying in Alberta between last week's game against Calgary and Saturday's upcoming game against Edmonton, but boy, were they wrong. According to various Twitter reports, the team's bus broke down outside Red Deer (about an hour and a half outside Calgary, so almost halfway between the cities) Friday, leaving the players initially standing in a ditch and then regrouping at a McDonalds. Here are some of the tweets in question:

This may sound like a plot from a John Hughes movie (hopefully they weren't going the wrong way), but apparently it's real. It's quite amazing that it proved harder to get from Calgary to Edmonton than from Toronto to Edmonton, but hey, that's the CFL for you. (It's also funny that this happened right after Argonauts.ca posted a piece entitled "A TEAM THAT TRAVELS TOGETHER, WINS TOGETHER." Perhaps that bonding will be intensified at McDonalds, even if it's not the pre-game food recommended by most nutritionists?) Oh well, at least the team already was able to work in a wedding, so that particular Hughes plot won't be happening. I can see the letter to team management now, though: "Dear Mr. Barker, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Friday in Red Deer for whatever it is that we did wrong..."