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The Sports Junkies

Former QB Lost At Sea For 11 Hours On A Kayak

The Sports Junkies

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Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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From 04/01 Hour 2:

The Sports Junkies discuss reports that a former QB got lost at sea on his kayak.

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0:00.0

I want to bring up this story I saw about Chris Smelly might remember him as a quarterback.

0:07.6

Chris Smellie.

0:10.0

Yeah, that's his real last name?

0:12.4

S M E L L L E Y. Yes, I do remember that. The real last name? S-M-E-L-E-Y.

0:14.8

You got to change it.

0:16.6

We got joned on the line.

0:17.6

You can't be called.

0:18.8

Lots, lots of joning and bullying.

0:20.8

You can't be smelly.

0:22.1

Yeah, it's bad. Okay. Quarterback.

0:25.8

He's 37 now so he didn't play in the NFL. But I saw this store and I thought about it because when I stayed at this resort in Puerto Rico called

0:36.1

Palmas del Mar you see all these signs everywhere about riptides and my uncle warned me, he said, look, every year there are tourists that end up dying, drowning in certain spots, not necessarily that particular spot, but he kind of gave me just the general, hey, you got to watch it in certain spots.

0:58.0

We didn't even actually go to the beach in those three days resort. We just hung at the pool.

1:04.3

Right. But I saw those signs and then I saw this story. So this guy goes on a fishing

1:09.6

trip on his kayak. And...

1:13.0

Sounds like a small vessel to take a fishing trip on.

1:16.0

Oh, this is the guy that was floating in the water for hours?

1:18.0

Yes.

1:19.0

So he takes his kayak out off the coast of Greaten Beach, Florida at about 8.30 in the morning on

1:25.8

Thursday to do some fishing. And then it was simply strong winds and then he found himself seven to eight miles off the coast.

1:36.8

That's a long way in the kayak man. No frigate joke. Like it don't they tell you if you're standing on the shore and you look out to the horizon that's about eight miles

1:47.3

But where it drops off right? It's like Cuba. Is it that far? I think it's like roughly eight miles and trust me that looks like forever.

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