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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Incredi-Bull Feat Saves Man's Life

Our very own Gatorhippy makes a contribution this week:

Since the end of the 2010 season, news in the world of CFB has seemingly been filled with nothing but stories of lying coaches, players that play for cash, bowl execs being bribed and other doom and gloom scenarios. While it does make great fodder for the debate of overbearing rule making or loading the gun to take potshots at a rival or hated program, it certainly gets old after a while. Finally, we're treated to a story of heroism rather than one of infamy in the BCS thanks to Greg Auman of the St. Pete Times.

This past FebruarySouth Florida OL Danous Estenor stopped by a campus eatery on his way home for dinner to get a snack (like any self respecting offensive lineman would do) and wound up performing a life saving feat worthy of Superman or the Hulk. Hearing screams for help in the parking lot, Estenor looked across the lot and saw the cause of those screams: a tow truck driver had become pinned under the rear tire of a 1990 Cadillac Seville and the driver's wife and two other men were frantically attempting to get the driver out by lifting the boat of a vehicle off of him. The 300 pound lineman quickly jumped into action.

"I just see his legs," said Estenor, 21, a child of Haitian immigrants from Palm Beach. "The car is crushing him. He's not moving. I'm thinking, 'Oh, God, this guy is going to die.' "
"I tried to lift the car, and when I first tried, it didn't budge. I backed up. I don't know. But I felt this energy come, and I lifted it. I don't know how, but somebody pulled him from the car."

The driver, Pedro Arzola, and his wife couldn't be more thnakful for the heroic efforts of the 21 year old Estenor.

Maria Uribe had been sleeping in the cab of her husband's truck when she heard Arzola, 34 and a father of four, yelling "Ayudame!" ? help me. The scene looked "like a horror movie ? a lot of blood," she said. The Cadillac's front right tire had run over Arzola's torso and dragged him about 10 feet..."I said, 'God, bring an angel to my side, help me,' " Uribe said. "In Spanish, we say, 'milagro' (miracle). I appreciate (Estenor) doing what he did, saving my husband's life. If nobody helps me, I don't know if he is in the room right now."

Estero's story wasn't believed by teammates until one day after a spring practice when Coach Skip Holtz called him up in front of the squad and read them a letter from the manager of the campus eatery where the incident had occurred praising guard's "quick thinking, willingness to help and strength."

Now Estero fields the good natured teasing from his teammates that ask where his cape is or call him "hero." Danous has also used the incident for motivation and the realization that if he can lift a nearly 2 ton vehicle that pancacking opposing players shouldn't be so tough.

With all that's been shown to be wrong with CFB over the last year, it's sure nice to finally a true hero show up on the scene.

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