Reds Reportedly Rowdy on Plane

Cincinnati Reds Manager Pete Rose apologized to Continental Airlines officials after some of his players allegedly threw food, insulted flight attendants and were rowdy during a plane trip to Houston.

Rose reportedly fined one team member for his behavior on the Wednesday flight from San Francisco to Houston, but the team refused to confirm the report.

“They were throwing food, moving seats around in some way around the emergency exits, shredding the flight safety cards and throwing those around, and one grabbed a flight attendant,” said Continental spokesman Jim Brigance, who described the players’ behavior as similar to that at a “college fraternity party.”

The players eventually calmed down after being warned by the flight crew that there would be “some sort of police authority waiting for them” in Houston if they did not change their behavior, he said.