San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Raheem Morris celebrated a milestone birthday on September 3, turning the big 5-0, but here’s the wild part: he didn’t actually *experience* his birthday thanks to the team’s insane Week 1 travel schedule. The guy literally skipped an entire day of his life, which has to be a new one for turning 50.
Lost In Transit: The Missing Birthday
The whole thing went down because the 49ers are playing their Week 1 game in Australia, a massive trip that requires serious time adjustment. To get acclimated, the team decided to fly out a full week early. They took off on the night of September 2 from the United States. But here’s where it gets wild: due to the international dateline and time changes, when their plane touched down in Australia, it was already September 4. Morris’s 50th birthday, September 3, simply ceased to exist for him. Talk about a brutal way to celebrate a half-century of life, just gone like that.
Kyle Shanahan’s Time Warp Confusion
If that travel schedule sounds confusing, you’re not alone. Even head coach Kyle Shanahan sounded completely bewildered trying to explain how the team was preparing. He talked about looking at his clock, seeing the time, then trying to figure out his family’s time back home, and it showing “yesterday.” Shanahan straight-up said he felt like he was “in the future.” Trying to explain their game plan schedule was an even bigger headache for him: “Today is just our first day of the game plan, which is a Wednesday. We’ll put in some on a Thursday. Friday’s the final part of the game plan. Saturday, we walk through and we play on Sunday, which is a Friday in Australia and a Thursday in the U.S. So, don’t ever make me do that again.” Sounds like a jet-lagged nightmare for everyone involved.
Morris may have technically lost September 3, but the calendar doesn’t lie: he’s 50 now. Hopefully, the team found a way to acknowledge his birthday, even if it was just with a cake on the flight. He earned some kind of celebration for reaching that milestone, even if the actual day got swallowed by time zones.
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Originally reported by Yahoo Sports.
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