A Kansas City Chiefs fan had to retract his joke about a staff member after learning the truth about his condition.
After the defending Super Bowl champions posted their roster and a photo of their staff on Jan. 17, user Kent Swanson took to the image and wrote, “This time of year we try to find who's photoshopped.”
In response to the post, a user named Shawn clipped assistant running backs coach Porter Ellet, who is missing his right arm.
“My boy,” Shawn wrote with the photo. “If he is really missing an arm, I'm sorry.”
Later in the thread, Shawn posted a poster for an article in Ellet, confirming that he does his job impressively with the Chiefs despite having an arm.
“Oh no,” Shawn wrote. Ellet responded to the post saying “Apology accepted,” to which Shawn responded “You're the Porter man.”
Chiefs assistant coach Porter Ellett lost an arm in an accident when he was four years old
In an exclusive interview with PEOPLEEllet detailed how she lost her arm when she was four years old and the incredible trajectory her life has taken since then.
“One day we were going out… I wanted to be in the back of the truck,” Ellett said. “Then we hit a pothole and I fell off the back of the truck.”
'I hit my head really hard and fractured my skull, cut my scalp and partially severed an artery. All these things. Bad things,' he explained.
“My dad rescued me from the injury…He had to take my scalp and put it back on my head.”
Ellet, who grew up on a farm in Utah, said doctors treated his head injury before discovering it “cut the nerves” in his spine that controlled his right arm. Unfortunately they were unable to repair the damage.
“My first memories after the accident were just feeling hurt,” Ellett said. 'I remember walking past one of the windows and seeing the kids outside playing basketball. I remember thinking, 'This isn't fair.' It's not great. I'm supposed to be out there doing what they're doing.
Ellett poses with Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes at the White House
Ellett with Travis Kelce during one of the Chiefs' Super Bowl victory celebrations
Ellett was hired by the Chiefs when he was 27 years old and has been with the team for eight seasons.
However, cutting off his arm did not stop Ellet from getting involved in the sport, admitting his love for basketball and baseball. His involvement in football came while working in the equipment room while attending BYU.
Shortly after college, Andy Reid offered Ellet a job as his assistant at age 27. “He told me, 'Hey, you'll be my right-hand man,'” he remembers Reid telling him, to which Ellett responded, “Like, as long as you're okay with your right-hand man not having a right hand!”
Eight seasons later, Ellet remains an integral part of the Chiefs staff and has three Super Bowl titles.
He resides in Kansas City with his wife Carlie and their three children.