The confluence of events that led K.J. Osborn to flaming car wreckage under a bridge in the middle of the night stuck with the Vikings receiver days later, as did the recent revelation that he shares "close mutual friends" with the man he helped save from the burning vehicle in Texas.
"I'd never been to Austin," said Osborn of the city where his trainer lives. "And I missed my first Uber. So if I would've got in the first Uber, I would've never seen that. [And] we have close mutual friends, so I'm excited to get to speak to him privately and just get a chance to shake his hand or something."
Late Sunday night, Osborn looked down at his phone when, as the 25-year-old receiver recalled, his driver saw the wreck and stopped. Another vehicle with two other bystanders stopped behind them. About four minutes later, Osborn credited his Uber driver with helping to lead a rescue effort in which they helped carry a man away from the wreckage.
