"Next time you're reading the sports section and you're about half-sick of DUIs and beaten wives, put it down for a second and remember Joe Delaney, who, in a splinter of a moment, when a hero was needed, didn't stop to ask why."

- Rick Reilly, "No Ordinary Joe" (July 7, 2003)

search: "Joe Delaney, Platte County" sometime to see exactly why