Tuesday (Vikings' Greenway rescues Bears fan on Lake Minnetonka) edition: Wha' Happened?

High winds wreaked havoc around the metro area on Monday, but in one particularly dangerous situation Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway was the right man in the right spot.

June 3, 2014 at 5:01PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

High winds wreaked havoc around the metro area on Monday, but in one particularly dangerous situation Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway was the right man in the right spot.

Greenway helped rescue a pair of boaters who were stranded on Lake Minnetonka -- their craft stuck in a spillway near a dam after being pushed by the wind.

Greenway jumped into the water to help push the boat to safety until more help arrived, according to Kare 11.

One of the stranded boaters is a Vikings fan, but the other? He's a Bears fan.

"Good thing he told me that after!" joked Greenway.

While we're not sure exactly how imminent danger was in this situation, it is nice -- considering the 2005 Love Boat scandal -- to see Vikings players putting their powers to good use on Lake Minnetonka.

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Michael Rand is the Minnesota Star Tribune's Digital Sports Senior Writer and host/creator of the Daily Delivery podcast. In 25 years covering Minnesota sports at the Minnesota Star Tribune, he has seen just about everything (except, of course, a Vikings Super Bowl).

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