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Myself and another buddy brought our good friend to the game yesterday and sat in the handicap section (114 in the first half, 112 were our seats - my buddy is a HUGE Husky fan but suffered a stroke a few years back and this was his first game in over 3 1/2 years, we had a blast - some of you met him years ago at Rookies when we had our get together there as "JD")
Anyway, Earl Kelley specifically came by to say hello to "JD" which was a nice gesture and he sat and talked for quite a while about his days and these latest teams as well. I had a conversation with him about how he was unfortunate that he was right in between years he could have made even larger impact as besides Tim Coles and a couple of decent players (Cliffy was a frosh I believe?) he never played with a big front line to support him. I mentioned we've always had the discussion about how we wish he was a couple years earlier so he could have played with Corny, Mike M and Chuck because he was the missing piece. He was a lot of fun, talked about the other Ct guys like Murphy, Garris and such whom he wished stayed home. He's really a good guy and looks like he could still play. He was sitting down behind the UC bench with Stormin'Norman Bailey. The crazy thing is my buddy Tom and him knew each other form living near each other while on campus (Ellsworth? sound right) back in the day and partying a little (ok a lot) together.
One of my favorites to watch play of all time and it was fun to reminisce with the dude. I know he had his troubles but he seems to be in a real good place! Nice guy
Anyway, Earl Kelley specifically came by to say hello to "JD" which was a nice gesture and he sat and talked for quite a while about his days and these latest teams as well. I had a conversation with him about how he was unfortunate that he was right in between years he could have made even larger impact as besides Tim Coles and a couple of decent players (Cliffy was a frosh I believe?) he never played with a big front line to support him. I mentioned we've always had the discussion about how we wish he was a couple years earlier so he could have played with Corny, Mike M and Chuck because he was the missing piece. He was a lot of fun, talked about the other Ct guys like Murphy, Garris and such whom he wished stayed home. He's really a good guy and looks like he could still play. He was sitting down behind the UC bench with Stormin'Norman Bailey. The crazy thing is my buddy Tom and him knew each other form living near each other while on campus (Ellsworth? sound right) back in the day and partying a little (ok a lot) together.
One of my favorites to watch play of all time and it was fun to reminisce with the dude. I know he had his troubles but he seems to be in a real good place! Nice guy