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Todd M -> NFL News (6/29/2011 11:40:35 AM)
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It was 28 years ago today that Chiefs running back Joe Delaney died while trying to save three drowning children. In Delaney and Pope, the Chiefs have had a couple of real heroes.
Early this month Pope saved a boy from drowning, and that experience has inspired him to make water safety an emphasis of his charitable foundation.
Pope hasn’t sought attention for his heroic action and wasn’t quoted in the first round of stories about the boy he saved, but he is now using his platform to talk about the importance of learning to swim.
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IDK, maybe I've become too cynical but one, the Delaney story is a story of a hero who sacrificed his life in a heroic act. Jumping into a deep pit, not knowing how to swim to try and save 3 children.
Pope, who knows how to swim jumped into a pool at a pool party and got a kid out.
Give the guy a cookie for doing a good job but he isn't a "hero".
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