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There wasn't much thinking. I just reacted. I just did it, he told ABC. [The mother] is the real hero of the story because she made the ultimate sacrifice to save her children. I just did my best. His head landed perfectly on my elbow. I know how to catch. I've learned how to catch a football. So I'll give some credit to football.
I can definitely credit the Marine Corps for instilling this good training in me to save a life. I don't see myself as a hero. A person trained to do my job is trained to protect people.

See the face of a real hero below.

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Former college football wide receiver Phillip Blanks made the catch of his life in tragic circumstances when he saved three-year-old Jameson Long after he was thrown to safety by his mother from a burning apartment.
Ex-marine and former wide receiver at Saddleback College in Southern California Blanks sprinted barefoot to the fire in Phoenix, Arizona, when the incident unfolded on Friday.

On the third floor, Jameson’s terrified mother Rachel can be seen standing on the balcony below billowing smoke clouds and frantically holding on to her child.

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As an onlooker can be heard screaming “throw the baby down”, the 30-year-old makes the harrowing decision no parent wishes to be confronted with, and tosses her child over, sending Jameson ‘twirling like a propeller’ toward the ground.

Wearing a red shirt, footage shows Blanks darting towards the infant and diving just in time to catch Jameson before he hits the ground, intercepting from another man dressed in blue standing below the apartment.

The man filming the horror coolly compliments Blanks on a “good catch” as the muscular former marine powers past him with the startled infant in his arms.

Phillip Blanks shows what being a man is,or at least the type man we should all aspire to be. Phillip Blanks actions on that day shines an unflattering light on just how fake and pointless the accomplishments of our the manufactured hero's like Drew Brees, Colin Kaepernick, and the Bubba Wallaces really are.