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A hand for The Odd Couple
The things that Rusty Guy thinks about nowadays are pretty much the same things he thought about as he held Chris Henry's lifeless hand.
A year ago Friday morning, Carson Palmer broke the news to his teammates in a locker-room huddle that Slim had died.
Unbelievably, Henry, the Bengals wide receiver with nine lives whose effortless strides and No. 9's long ball made the nine route their very own, was gone. At
But if you ask Guy, it wasn't until nighttime that Henry passed. After Guy held the hand that really summed it all up. Lifeless, but still beating with so much hope that machines kept him alive for the organ donors.
It was in the morning when Guy arrived at the Charlotte, N.C., hospital, not quite a day since Henry suffered massive head injuries falling out of the back of a truck. He was gone; brain dead, but the family asked Guy if he wanted to see him. He stayed for 12 hours, until they unhooked Henry from the respirator and took him away for the organs, alternately holding Henry's hand and listening to his mother Carolyn tell stories of her baby boy.
"There wasn't a scratch on him," Guy says a year later. "He was peaceful. He was sleeping. He was breathing. It looked like he could get right out of bed and play football."
Guy is the self-described "middle aged white cop" that delivered one of the eulogies at Henry's funeral in New Orleans. They were the odd couple, he said. Here was Guy, the Bengals director of security, a sandy-haired Pittsburgh native who starred for the Duke golf team before working on the Raleigh, N.C. police force. Here was Henry, black, tattooed, and dredlocked, one of the pictures on the NFL's Most Wanted poster.
Guy does a lot of thinking these days about what he was thinking holding Henry's hand that awful day in Charlotte. Like he does now, he thought back to his first meeting with Henry. It was a meal and Henry paused to bless himself before he ate. This, Guy asked himself, is
Chris Henry (wide receiver)
American football player (–)
American football player
Christopher Henry (May 17, – December 17, ) was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver for five seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the West Virginia Mountaineers and was selected by the Bengals in the third round of the NFL draft.
Henry died on December 17, , when he fell out the back of a moving truck after having a domestic dispute with his fiancée. An autopsy revealed that Henry had developed chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) during his playing career due to repetitive hits to the head. Because CTE can only be definitively diagnosed in an autopsy and Henry was still active in the NFL when he died, Henry represented the first case where an active player had died and could be diagnosed with CTE.
Early life
Henry was born to Carolyn Lee and David Henry in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. He attended Belle Chasse High School where he was named New Orleans small schools offensive player of the year during his senior year. During that season the Fighting Cardinals made it to the Louisiana AAA State championship game, which was played at the Louisiana Superdome. Henry also excelled in basketball and track.
College career
Henry enrolled at West Virginia University in , spending his first season as a redshirt. In , he earned Big East Conference freshman of the year and All-Big East second-team honors for catching 41 passes and gaining 1,&#;yards and scoring 10 touchdowns. He also became the second player in school history to record over 1, receiving&#;yards in one season (behind David Saunders), and his &#;yards per reception are the third most in a season in school history. Henry's best game was a career-high performance of &#;yards and two touchdowns against Syracuse. His career-long reception came against Rutger Wide receiver Chris Henry, one of the Bengals' most prolific touchdown makers ever in a brief star-crossed career, has died. Henry, 26, died Thursday morning from injuries stemming from a pickup truck accident Wednesday in Charlotte. The news hit Paul Brown Stadium at about the same time Henry's teammates were about to emerge from their morning meetings and take the field for their daily walkthrough. Head coach Marvin Lewis and Bengals president Mike Brown planned to meet the media at 11 a.m. According to police, Henry fell out of the back of a pickup truck driven by his fiancée at the home of her parents. Loleini Tonga and Henry were planning to be married in March. It is more heart-wrenching news for a team that two months ago suffered the sudden death of Vikki Zimmer, the wife of defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer. One win away from clinching the AFC North title, the Bengals leave late Friday afternoon for Sunday's game in San Diego. Henry, who has been on injured reserve since Nov. 9 with a dislocated forearm, was in the city of his fiancée's parents. The couple had planned to get married in March. As Heny lay on life support Wednesday, current and former teammates talked about how he had rebuilt his life and career in a three-year climb from a series of off-field problems. He was on the sidelines at Paul Brown Stadium back on Dec. 6 when the Bengals beat the Lions, Left tackle Andrew Whitworth talked to him and said he sounded good. "Chris is Chris. He's personable with his guys, but quiet," Whitworth said Wednesday night. "You could tell he missed being out there with us. He was supportive. He's a big part of what we are. I really admire how he carries himself, how he's changed his life, and how he's made his career his passion. That's what this team has done. He's one of the guys that has helped give this team that attitude. We're worried about him and praying for him." Until he got hurt after catching a yard pas John BarrJan 8, , PM ET CINCINNATI -- On the surface, Rusty Guy and Chris Henry had little in common. Guy, 54, is the Cincinnati Bengals' director of security, a year veteran of local law enforcement and private security. When he joined the Bengals full time during the team's training camp, he joked at the time that he fit the NFL's profile for team security chiefs: "Old, gray and white." At that time, Henry, the lanky 6-foot-4 wide receiver with prominent tattoos and dreadlocks, had emerged as one of the leading examples of the NFL's new personal conduct policy. Henry was preparing to serve an eight-game, regular-season suspension for numerous off-the-field transgressions. At 24, he'd been arrested four times since the start of his rookie season in The patience of many within the Bengals organization, including coach Marvin Lewis, was wearing thin. But there was one important front-office exception: Bengals president Mike Brown. The son of Paul Brown, the legendary coach and co-founder of the Bengals, Mike Brown had developed a soft spot for his troubled young receiver. At the Bengals' news conference after Henry's death, Brown recalled a one-on-one conversation he had with Henry at a team Christmas party a few years ago. "The impression he left me with was altogether different than how he's been portrayed," Brown said of Henry. "He was gentle, alert, well-spoken, interesting to talk to, and he won me over." "Mike Brown clearly loved Chris," Guy said in a recent interview with "Outside the Lines." "I had anything at my avail to help the young man." In the weeks since Henry's death on Dec. 17, after a traffic incident the day before in Charlotte, N.C., "Outside the Lines" has learned that the Bengals were going to great lengths b
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