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.