?? ?And we're not talking about Tuesday afternoon in Disneyland. In fact, they didn?t have to leave the hotel in which they?re staying for the Jan. 2 Rose Bowl.
?? ?Nine players left the 11th floor of the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Century City Monday night, and were headed down when the elevator came to an abrupt stop between the seventh and eighth floors.
There, it sat, unwilling to move no matter what buttons the players pushed.
?? ?Finally, they reached the hotel staff on the elevator intercom, and settled back to wait for help.
They waited, and waited, and waited.
?? ?"That wasn't the most pleasant experience," said linebacker Josh Kaddu, one of the Hyatt Regency Nine.
?? ?After a while, the players became tired of standing, but there wasn't enough room for all to sit. So they organized. Some players sat down. When one of the standing players became too leg-weary, he traded trade places with one of those seated.
?? ?"We just tapped out," Kaddu said. "When somebody was tired, he tapped somebody, and he would get up. It was teamwork."
Apparently nobody in the elevator suffers from claustrophobia. It?s a good thing, because they were there for two hours.
?? ?"We had music playing," defensive end Dion Jordan said. "We tried to make the most of it. It was kind of nerve wracking to be stuck in the elevator for that long."
?? ?Jordan said off-site help eventually was summoned, and the elevator was brought close enough to the eighth floor for everybody to clamber off.
?? ?Somebody asked Jordan if he had seen the movie "Die Hard," in which actor Bruce Willis has to climb around inside the elevator shaft of a high rise. As coincidence would have it, the movie is set in Century City.
?? ??Thank God we didn't have to do that,? Jordan said.
?? ?The rest of the team was aware of the predicament facing the nine trapped players, which led to some thought about worst-case scenarios.
?? ?Tackle Mark Asper, who wasn?t in the elevator, explained one scenario to defensive back Avery Patterson, one of trapped nine.
?? ? ?I was joking with him,? Asper said. ?I said: ?You were the smallest guy in that elevator. You would have been the first one they ate, man. If it had come down to it, it?s survival of the fittest. You probably would have got eaten.??
?? ?Patterson didn?t find it particularly funny then, and he wasn?t happy when a bunch players piled into an elevator together today.
?? ?Asper said Patterson was concerned about the elevator?s weight limit.
?? ??He was like, ?No, no more,?? Asper said. ?I was like, ?There are five guys in here. This is a 5000-pound capacity elevator. Avery, calm down.? He was like, ?no, man.?
?? ??He is traumatized for life.?
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Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2011/12/ducks_find_themselves_in_a_tig.html
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