Former Cardinal QB Kolb Survives Life’s Toughest Hit
http://www.sports360az.com/2014/09/kolb/
Former Arizona Cardinals and NFL quarterback Kevin Kolb suffered four concussions in just over a years worth of games but no hit was as hard as the one he took while vacationing with his wife and friends in Cabo San Lucas earlier this month.
Kolb wasn’t throwing touchdowns, he was bracing for one, in the form of Hurricane Odile which rocked the tropical paradise, destroying nearly everything in its’ path. Thankfully, Kolb and his wife weren’t but both experienced enough tense moments to last a lifetime during the eight-day ordeal.
“We were actually in the bathtub with stuff around us and we put mattresses up around the bathroom walls,” Kolb explained in detail to Sports360AZ.com’s Brad Cesmat in a phone interview Wednesday morning. “The thing that was most frightening was the walls were flexing so they were moving three to four inches each way along with the ceiling buckling down on top of us.”
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With all the nearby airports out of service after Odile touched down Kolb’s group went into survival mode collecting water, food and even knives to use as preventative weapons as they attempted to function among the wreckage and looting which was occurring.
He essentially turned their ground-level room into a fortress equipped with a homemade security device.
“I rigged up all kinds of stuff where there was no way, no matter how deep a sleep I was in, I wouldn’t get woken up if somebody came in that door,” he said. “I had all kind of things set up where they would slam and bang where I could at least wake up and defend myself and my wife.”
http://www.sports360az.com/2014/09/kolb/
Former Arizona Cardinals and NFL quarterback Kevin Kolb suffered four concussions in just over a years worth of games but no hit was as hard as the one he took while vacationing with his wife and friends in Cabo San Lucas earlier this month.
Kolb wasn’t throwing touchdowns, he was bracing for one, in the form of Hurricane Odile which rocked the tropical paradise, destroying nearly everything in its’ path. Thankfully, Kolb and his wife weren’t but both experienced enough tense moments to last a lifetime during the eight-day ordeal.
“We were actually in the bathtub with stuff around us and we put mattresses up around the bathroom walls,” Kolb explained in detail to Sports360AZ.com’s Brad Cesmat in a phone interview Wednesday morning. “The thing that was most frightening was the walls were flexing so they were moving three to four inches each way along with the ceiling buckling down on top of us.”
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With all the nearby airports out of service after Odile touched down Kolb’s group went into survival mode collecting water, food and even knives to use as preventative weapons as they attempted to function among the wreckage and looting which was occurring.
He essentially turned their ground-level room into a fortress equipped with a homemade security device.
“I rigged up all kinds of stuff where there was no way, no matter how deep a sleep I was in, I wouldn’t get woken up if somebody came in that door,” he said. “I had all kind of things set up where they would slam and bang where I could at least wake up and defend myself and my wife.”
