Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez might not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound or run faster than a speeding bullet or use his X-ray vision to check out Lois Lane’s thong.  Still, Gonzalez made like Clark Kent’s alter ego and saved a man’s life recently.

Per the Associated Press, Gonzalez applied the Heimlich maneuver on July 3 to a man who was choking on a piece of meat at a restaurant.

“[The man’s wife] was screaming, ‘He can’t breathe, he can’t breathe,’” Gonzalez told the AP.  “The whole restaurant was quiet.  Nobody was doing anything.  Then I saw he was turning blue.  Everybody in the restaurant was just kind of sitting there wide-eyed.”

The amazing part is that, but for Gonzalez’s willingness to intervene, the man, Ken Hunter, might have died.  Despite the presence of plenty of other people, at least some of whom have at some point heard about the fairly simple procedure for coming to the aid of a person who is unexpectedly choking on foodstuffs. 

And so Hunter, a lifelong Chargers fan, is now primarily a Tony Gonzalez fan. 

Though we’ll continue to maintain our official rooting position of disliking all teams equally, we credit Gonzalez for having the willingness to act at a time when everyone else in the room was paralyzed by apathy and/or fear.