"You should never get out of your vehicle in a flood."
I had nothing to do with the context of those quotes, they were (almost) directly copied from ESPN comments. The last sentence of my post is the key. There will be a time to address the would haves, could haves, and should haves, and someday his example may save other lives. I just didn't think eighteen hours after the tragedy was the time. He was in an emergency life/death situation. It turned into a tragedy. Disgusting may be too a strong a word for that comment but insensitive definitely is not. That was someone's spouse, father, friend, etc. that lost his life last night. Saying what he could/should have done at this stage is pretty insensitive in my book. 98% of the people out there would have no idea how they would act and how quickly they would act in a situation like that unless it happened to them. We may never know exactly what he tried to do, how close he was to safety, etc.
I don't expect it but it doesn't make it any less disgusting. That was someone's spouse, father, friend, coworker, etc. Bitching about Fran or Kirk or Gary on these boards is one thing. This is different.
It would be insensitive to say that directly to his spouse/family. But they didn't. That comment could save the life of the next person stranded in flood waters.
I hope this tragedy, and the comment, do save one or more lives in the future. I wonder if the person who made that comment would have known what to do if that were his family in that van and he had seconds to make a life or death choice. The only book I'm going to publish is that I hope an incident like that never happens to my family, your family, or any one else's family. What would I have done in that situation? I don't have any idea. But I wouldn't have speculated less than 24 hours after the tragedy what should have been done on any forum. I would have given it more time. Speculating what should have been done isn't going to comfort the grievers now. If you see the ESPN comment as proper as long as it wasn't intended at family I could certainly buy that. It does send a strong public service message. If you see me as the pot meeting the kettle I will own that, too. I posted it. And I responded quickly and angrily to what I read.
I think Larry took some flak for being a little more pro ISU than Iowa at times. But this was years and years ago back when I listened to him. It's been over 10 yrs since I heard him live on air I bet. To me he lived and worked in Des Moines. So to 'favor' for a lack of a better word the central Iowa programs shouldn't be a stretch and there's no reason to bash him for that when his audience was central Iowa. The guy was also huge on high school sports and was a huge state of Iowa sports fan. To speak a bad word of him is ridiculous.The internet appears to bring out the absolute worst in people
Common decency is ridiculed and despised
Really sorry to see Larry go. He was always enjoyable to listen to.....
I don't disagree. Disgusting, but not surprising.
