The glory and the nothing

[sigma7]

First possibly the gutsiest human being ever:

A 51-year-old man is being called a hero after covering a teenager who fell onto subway tracks in New York as a train passed over them.

Witnesses and officials said Wesly Autrey jumped onto the tracks after Cameron Hollowpeter, 18, suffered a seizure and collapsed Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan. He fell off the platform onto the the subway tracks a few metres below.

Autrey, who was waiting on the train platform with his two daughters, jumped onto the southbound subway tracks where Hollowpeter had fallen.

When he couldn't get him off the tracks as a train approached, he covered the teenager in a space between the rails while two of the train cars passed over them.

And now a simple little worm of a man:

Nick Saban has accepted an offer from Alabama to coach the Crimson Tide and leave the Miami Dolphins, two weeks after declaring "I'm not going to be the Alabama coach."

Saban's agreement with Alabama is for eight years and a fully-guaranteed $32 million, according to ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli.

Comments

[missmiah.livejournal.com]

Someone has been watching "While You Were Sleeping". Not that that wasn't a brave thing to do, because it was. Stupid, but brave.

Gutsy, sure. Callous too.

[jerrygarciuh.livejournal.com]

I dunno. It doesn't say how old his daughters are but basically he put them in the position of watching in terror as a train almost killed him and left them without a father in order to protect a stranger.

Re: Gutsy, sure. Callous too.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought about that. The line between heroically brave and irredeemably stupid gets a little blurry in places....

[bishop282.livejournal.com]

Didn't know the back story with Saban. I was at Finance today and they had ESPN news on and the owner of the Dolphins was giving his press conference. Puts a different perspective on the events.