NFL players missing in Gulf of Mexico

At least we'll know what happened and it can stand as a cautionary tale.

 

freep has full story

http://www.freep.com/article/20090302/SPORTS01/90302030/Boat+found+off+Florida+coast+with+man+clinging+to+side

 

The fact the Coast Guard can find a boat in thousands of square miles of ocean never ceases to amaze me.

 

By the way, ESPNews is still running the canned reports from this morning (search continues) with the news that the boat has been found on the crawl below. If they can't go live on something like this, what good is it to have a 24-hour sports news network?

 

Freep.com has live video for folks who are at work and aren't able to change the television station.

 

I'm waiting to watch it on YouTube and read it on NFL.com.

Who needs newspapers?

 

I'm reading a blogger from Clearwater who is a bagger at the local Publix.

 

What's the water temp in the Gulf right now?

 

68 degrees.

 

Shit.

If a life jacket is on correctly, you will be able to breathe.

That's not their biggest problem right now.

 

He said the other 3 men had their life jackets on. So they could be floating still, unconscious or not.

 

Yeah, but the body temp is the concern now. They can only get through so many nights on that water.