As Astro might say, "Ruh-roh!"

Patriots' linebacker Adalius Thomas, a member of the Tardy Four from a day ago, met with media members just a few minutes ago and didn't sound terribly contrite about the circumstances that resulted in his being sent home for being late to practice.

But he did come up with the line of the year.

Saying he was stuck in snow-slowed traffic and trying to avoid accidents, Thomas said there was nothing much he could do to speed up his progress toward the stadium.

"There's nothing really to apologize about," he said. "I didn't try to be late. That's basically it. I don't know what else to say. You leave home, you have people there, cars sitting in the road and you're sitting there, and what do you do? It's not the 'The Jetsons,' you can't jump up and just fly."

Thomas was, of course, referring to the 1960s animated sitcom on ABC about a futuristic family. The iconic opening scene shows George Jetson and his family (wife Jane, daughter Judy, son Elroy and dog Astro) jetting off to school, shopping and work in their flying car.