On June 29, 1983, Kansas City Chiefs running back Joe Delaney lost his life after jumping into a pond in Monroe, Louisiana, in a last-ditch attempt to save the lives of three drowning children.
On that sweltering June day, hundreds flocked to Monroe, Louisiana’s Chennault Park, where a six-foot-deep pond sat with warning signs telling folks not to enter the water. Three boys, though, ignored the warnings and jumped in, anyway, according to the Shreveport Times.
The Chiefs’ 24-year-old star running back was near the pond when the boys jumped into the still waters. Sure enough, despite the warnings — even from the player himself — the boys got to a part of the pond where the bottom dropped off quickly. All three boys were
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