KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -On a recent trip back home to Louisiana, Dwayne Bowe ran into an old friend, a former teammate from LSU. They caught up on old times before saying goodbye.
Then, a few days later, Bowe got a call he’ll never forget.
On the other end was another ex-LSU teammate. The friend he had run into at the airport was dead. Searchers found the body of New England Patriots lineman Marquise Hill on Monday, a day after he was reported missing after a jet ski accident on Lake Pontchartrain.
“I went home and I prayed for his family” Bowe said. “I was just with him in the layover going home. … That’s why you can’t take anything for granted. You have to live every day to the fullest. I’m going to talk with the young guys.”
Everyone here says Bowe, a big, rugged wide receiver who was Kansas City’s first-round draft pick last month, is working hard and making progress. He has even become friends with veteran Eddie Kennison, the man he could eventually push out of a job.
But the news of Hill’s death came as “quite a blow.”
“I had just asked him how he was doing. He said he was home to see his daughter,” Bowe said.
He said he’ll remember Hill “as a character, a comedian.”
“He was always willing to bring you up when you’re down, always willing to help somebody,” he said. “Bad things happen to good people.”
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