San Jose State’s football team reached the travel equivalent of the 1-yard line, but the Spartans couldn’t quite get into the end zone.
SJSU’s charter flight Friday, bound for Colorado Springs and Saturday’s game against Air Force, made it to the runway at San Jose’s airport. Then the Federal Aviation Administration’s ground stop order abruptly halted air traffic nationwide.
So the plane, with a traveling party of more than 100 football players, coaches and school officials, stopped and waited — and eventually returned to the gate. The Spartans later headed back to their football facility on campus, and now they hope to make the trip early Saturday morning…