KANSAS CITY, Mo. (July 7) - A California man says Pro Bowl tight end Tony Gonzalez of the Kansas City Chiefs kept him from choking to death. \"Tony saved my life. There\'s no doubt,\" Ken Hunter, a shipping company manager, told The Associated Press in a phone interview from Huntington Beach, Calif.  \"Tony came up behind me and gave me the Heimlich maneuver. Thank God he was there.\" Gonzalez, a nine-time Pro Bowl selection who has set numerous NFL records, was having dinner with his wife, brother and 5-week-old daughter at Capone\'s restaurant in Huntington Beach Thursday night. Hunter, 45, was dining with his girlfriend at the next table when suddenly a piece of meat stuck in his throat. \"I tried to take a drink of water, but I couldn\'t swallow,\" Hunter told The AP. \"Then I couldn\'t breathe. That\'s a terrible feeling. I couldn\'t breathe. Then I guess I started to panic.\" Gonzalez, sitting with his back to Hunter\'s table, looked around when he heard Hunter\'s companion yelling. \"She was screaming, `He can\'t breathe, he can\'t breathe,\"\' Gonzalez said by phone from California, where he lives in the offseason. \"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.\"