In 2001, Tony Gonzalez collided with a sideline photographer. Thanks to the collission and trip to the hospital, the man found out he had a brain tumor. Tony saved his life.
Last week, Tony Gonzalez performed the Heimlich maneuver on some dude at a restaurant, and saved his life, too.
Gonzalez, sitting with his back to Hunter’s table, looked around when he heard Hunter’s companion yelling.
“She was screaming, `He can’t breathe, he can’t breathe,'” Gonzalez said by phone from California, where he lives in the offseason. “The whole restaurant was quiet. Nobody was doing anything.”
Diana Martin, a restaurant employee, said no one else seemed to know what to do.
“He was so lucky Tony was there,” Martin said. “In a situation like that, every second counts. It helped a lot that Tony’s a big, strong guy because you have to be able to apply some pretty good pressure. I don’t think I would have been strong enough to help him.”
No one else in the entire restaurant had the sense to give the Heimlick maneuver to someone who’s choking on food? Tony is a hero, but how dumb can a bunch of people at a restaurant in California be?