Two NFL Players Missing...

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I hope those guys are alright. A good friend of mine lost his father in a very similar situation.
 
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VolinConcord said:
I hope those guys are alright. I good friend of mine lost his father in a very similar situation.
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Reminds me of the Brian Williams/Bison Dele incident back in '01 or '02. Hopefully, this one will have a much different conclusion.
 
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Jaytrain5 said:
Reminds me of the Brian Williams/Bison Dele incident back in '01 or '02. Hopefully, this one will have a much different conclusion.
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loved those days. was in michigan back then. the local sports radio station had a field day with that and it was hilarious.
 
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kev20 said:
loved those days. was in michigan back then. the local sports radio station had a field day with that and it was hilarious.
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i'm drawing a total blank as to the point of this post?
 
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They have not named him, but they have found a person clinging to the boat. This according to MSN news.
 
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oh, then I misinterpretted the original post. forgot that he was murdered. was just talking about the name change thing. my bad.
 
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Scott Miller, a friend of the college teammates, said Schuyler told him that a chopper shone a light directly above them the first night. Schuyler also told him he even saw lights beaming from ashore.
It was Bleakley who swam underneath to retrieve three life jackets he could find, along with a cushion, a groggy Schuyler told Miller from a Tampa hospital. Bleakley used the cushion and the other men wore the jackets, Miller said.
But the waves were powerful, and after Cooper and Smith were separated from the boat, the college teammates tried to hang on.
“He said basically that Will helped him keep going,” Schuyler told Miller, who said he had known Bleakley since the sixth grade. “The waves were just so much. They never got a break.”
 
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South Florida player Nick Schuyler told investigators that all four of the friends on a fishing excursion were initially wearing life vests and clinging to the 21-foot boat belonging to Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper.
But two to four hours after the boat capsized, one of the NFL players removed his life jacket and let himself be swept out to sea, the St. Petersburg Times reported. A few hours later, the other one followed suit.
"We were told that Nick said the two NFL players took their life jackets off and drifted out to sea," said Bob Bleakley, whose son Will Bleakley, 25, is also still missing.
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Strange - I can't imagine making the decision to lose the life jacket and be swept away.
 
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The more that comes out on this story the stranger it gets, supposidely the last guy to let go thought he saw a light, took off his life jacket and swam for it. I don't understand why you would take off your jacket if you were going to swim out there.
 
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for the one clinging to the boat to survive is truly a miracle. a full day and night in the water is enough to kill through hypothermia. it is baffling why they would take off their lifejackets and drift, but in the last hypothermic stage people tend to rip off their clothes thinking that they are warm. could be a similar situation or not but the mind plays a lot of tricks when the body temp starts to drop considerably. sad story for their families.
 
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blupotato said:
for the one clinging to the boat to survive is truly a miracle. a full day and night in the water is enough to kill through hypothermia. it is baffling why they would take off their lifejackets and drift, but in the last hypothermic stage people tend to rip off their clothes thinking that they are warm. could be a similar situation or not but the mind plays a lot of tricks when the body temp starts to drop considerably. sad story for their families.
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It truly is a sad story. I figured he was probably hallucinating when he saw the light and took off for it. I just wonder what was going through his mind when he took off his life jacket.
 
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sad story here. I'm guessing the one that saw the light was hallucinating. Kinda like how people are in the desert and spot water...
 
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I feel for the families, very sad. A nurse that works at the hospital lost two of his sons last year, out fishing.
 
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Volsguy12 said:
Search ends for 2 NFL players, 3rd man lost at sea - Yahoo! Sports

Search called off. If you don't wanna read the article here is an interesting and sad about you should read.

Scott Miller, a friend of the college teammates, said Schuyler told him that a chopper shone a light directly above them the first night. Schuyler also told him he even saw lights beaming from ashore.
It was Bleakley who swam underneath to retrieve three life jackets he could find, along with a cushion, a groggy Schuyler told Miller from a Tampa hospital. Bleakley used the cushion and the other men wore the jackets, Miller said.
But the waves were powerful, and after Cooper and Smith were separated from the boat, the college teammates tried to hang on.
“He said basically that Will helped him keep going,” Schuyler told Miller, who said he had known Bleakley since the sixth grade. “The waves were just so much. They never got a break.”
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A terrible way to go.
 
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