On June 29, 1983, the Kansas City Chiefs ran via Joe Delaney and jumped right into a pond in Monroe, Louisiana, earlier than shedding their lives in a ultimate ditch try to save lots of the lives of three drowning youngsters.
On that swelling June day, a whole lot flocked to Monroe, Louisiana’s Chennaugh Park, with a six-foot deep pond sitting warning indicators telling folks to not get into the water. However, the three boys ignored the warning and, anyway, jumped in, in keeping with the Shreveport Times.
The Chiefs’ 24-year-old star was close to the pond when the boys nonetheless leapt into the water. Sure sufficient, even from the gamers themselves, regardless of warnings, the boys shortly reached part of a pond the place the underside had fallen. All three boys have been in bother and Delaney felt he needed to act.
Delaney reportedly advised the witness, “I am unable to swim effectively.”
Unfortunately, Delaney did not make it out of the residing pond. Neither of the three boys he needed to save lots of.
His sister, Joanne Blazelle, mentioned she wasn’t positive her soccer hero brother would be capable of swim, however mentioned, “He was all the time making an attempt to assist somebody.”
“It appears like him. He’s all the time doing one thing for another person,” Haughton High School’s Delaney coach Bobby Ray Mchalfey advised the media after studying in regards to the tragic incident. “There’s nothing higher.”
Delaney was the Chiefs’ second-round NFL draft choose in 1981, dashing for 1,121 yards that season, reaching the Chiefs’ first victory season since 1973.
Delaney left behind his spouse and three little daughters. One of them was solely 4 months previous.