Bad week for the Texans and a bad week for Chester and Ephraim. They started the third leg in first place and wound up being eliminated - at the airport.
The nine teams flew from Santiago, Chile to Lisbon, Portugal and almost half the episode dealt with the adventures in flying between the two countries.
The NFL linemen arrived first at a travel agency and thought they had booked the only seats arriving in Lisbon at 7 a.m. the next morning. But as other teams arrived, they found out that the ticketing agent had screwed up and booked their seats a day later. The others were getting flights that would arrive at 10 a.m. or Noon.
Stuck with the Noon arrival, the agent tried to make good by routing them on two connecting flights that would get them into Lisbon at 7 a.m. but the first flight on the new itinerary ran into a four-hour delay so they missed their connection and couldn't get into Lisbon until well after all the other teams had not only arrived but completed all their tasks.
The show's host met Ephraim and Chester at the airport and informed them they had been eliminated. Usually twice a season, a leg is pre-determined as a non-elimination round where the last place finisher gets a reprieve and races the next leg with an added penalty.
If ever a team was deserving of such a reprieve, it was these two but it simply wasn't their day. The ER doctors won the leg.
As for the baseball wives, they showed they learned one thing about travelling with V-I-P spouses. You can get what you want in the executive lounge of an airport rather than waiting at the gate. This allowed them to get first on the standby list and cut ahead of three other teams. They used this trick to place third this week but not without the obligatory "this is so hard" comment on the first task.
So, this will unfortunately conclude the Texans connection with the show.
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