Plot - The team is invited to play in a tournament in San Jose and the episode consists of the preparation for the flight and the flight itself. This creates a great deal of excitement with the players because none of them had flown before. There are problems with the landing gear and the flight is forced to return back to LA because "there aren't enough rooms in the hospital" in San Jose.
Observations - It's taken me a week to write this because I was so disappointed with this episode. It seemed like the producers were given a bigger budget and the writers were told just to make something up. This showed in the vacuous plot and dialogue. Without going into too much detail, there are four items to share. First, Coach Reeves told the team to be ready to leave from Carver to LAX by 8am for a 9:20 am flight. Simply impossible. Second, air travel seemed to be slightly tamer at the time and more of a novelty for everyone involved. Nowadays it seems most fliers and flight crews are weary and stressed out. Third, the plot itself was something of a ripoff of the disaster movie genre of the 70s. By the time the public had seen Airport, Airport 1975, Airport '77, and would soon endure The Concorde...Airport '79. Luckily this episode was only 45 minutes long rather than a full-length movie. Finally, if I had to pick a best actor for this episode, it would be Erik Kilpatrick, who portrays Curtis Jackson.
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