Posted on 05/28/2013 10:01:27 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Former NFL quarterback Cullen Finnerty was found dead Tuesday night in northwestern Michigan after a solo fishing trip over the holiday long weekend.
"We were walking a good line," Scott Boyd, who was part of one search party that found the body, told the Detroit Free Press. "I squatted down. We had seen some trail. And a girl shouted. She walked right up on it. I thought, 'Oh no.'"
Finnerty, who briefly played for the Baltimore Ravens and Denver Broncos in 2007-08, had been missing since Sunday night, Lake County Sheriff Robert Hilts said. He confirmed the death at a news conference.
Around 100 current and former players and coaches from his alma mater, Grand Valley State, searched through the swampy woods northeast of Baldwin, Mich., Tuesday afternoon.
Hilts said the 30-year-old ran into the forest after having a "nervous episode" and hadn't been seen since.
"He phoned his wife and explained he was afraid," Hilts told USA Today. "He left his equipment and ran off into the woods."
Finnerty's wife and in-laws immediately drove to his location but all they found was his small pontoon boat.
"We found a fishing pole and that's all," Lake County Undersheriff Dennis Robinson said. "No waders and no fishing equipment."
Finnerty led Grand Valley State to an NCAA Division II championships in 2003, '04 and '06.
Your mention of a heart problem reminded me of a coworker that had stents inserted into his heart a couple of years ago. He had gone that evening to the nearby university hospital ER because, as he put it, “He just didn’t feel right.”
The ER doctors were downplaying his various symptoms/complaints as indigestion, high blood pressure, etc. until he told them that he had an “overwhelming sense of doom.” Seems that feeling is well documented in people who are on the verge of having a heart attack. At that point, the doctors attitudes changed dramatically and they began ordering the tests and MRIs that would ultimately find the nearly clogged arteries in his heart.
Maybe something similar happened here except there was no help to be had.
Some said he was faking it or whatever for taking time off to heal, but he just being smart and trying to stay that way. Been there, done that, don't recommend it.
Kind of a weird post you wrote.
Really.. theres no news in that news..
“A man died in the woods..” is not news..
whats missing from the article would fill an article..
good point.. I was being “nice”..
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