Chad Greenway Saved Two People On A Boat From The Clutches Of Death Because That's What Honorary Iowans Do
Right now…Chad Greenway from the @Vikings is helping rescue two people stuck on Minnetonka. #hero pic.twitter.com/REAsEcAg6A
— Rena Sarigianopoulos (@RenaKARE11) June 2, 2014
CBS Sports- Well here’s a new one: Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway rescued a boating couple from Lake Minnetonka. A local news station spotted Edward and Crystal Alexis struggling with their new boat in rough waters on the lake and called 911. Before the police could arrive to help, Greenway waded out in the water and helped the couple pull their boat to safety away from rough waters and a dangerous spillway” “We were looking at all the beautiful houses and all of the sudden the steering wheel wouldn’t turn and we were going in circles,” Crystal Alexis said. Greenway, who must have a house on the lake, hustled to the waters and saved the couple from potential disaster.
Did I sensationalize that headline? Not in my estimation. Who knows what would’ve happened if professional linebacker and honorary Iowan Chad Greenway hadn’t spotted this couple and bravely saved them from their boat being stuck in the water? They could’ve sank or starved to death or had to wait a couple more minutes until the firefighters showed up. But none of those things happened because Greenway was on the case. Linebacker. Viking. Hero. Honorary Iowan. Risking life and limb to help people for no other reason than being a kind hearted individual. Dangerously wading out into the rough waters of the Minnetonka and freeing these people from their death trap. A less generous, never-having-lived-in-Iowa person would’ve likely saw the couple and simply left them there to die. Honorary Iowans doing honorary Iowan things.
You’re probably asking yourself, “Shit, how do I become an honorary Iowan? That sounds like the bees knees and would probably get me laid.” Well stop right there. You can’t. Don’t even think about it. It’s a short list and your name isn’t on it (unless of course you’re from Iowa which already makes you an Iowan and therefore cooler than 99% of the population).
And now, here’s a video of Chad crushing souls while at Iowa.
h/t @RealDanHosch