Redemption

From the backwoods of Kentucky to the backstreets of Memphis, this is a story of redemption for a boy named Kelly.  As a boy he began to follow his Wildcats who played basketball.  He knew no better coming from a small town in Kentucky where all the confused blindly followed what they thought was a major league team.

 Over time, Kelly learned the sun did not rise nor set behind those Kentucky hills.  He soon realized a much larger world was out there waiting to be explored.  He learned of Memphis and the team that played under the title of Tigers.  He wondered if all that he had learned as a boy was false.  He moved to Memphis and soon married a gal who called the University of Memphis her Alma Mater.  His new sisters in law called Mississippi State of the Intolerable Cow Bell, and the Community College of Tennessee as their own.  Kelly began to realize that he may have been wrong all of his life.

His curiosity led him to other schools who for years played far better than his Wildcats.  He learned that many of these schools had better talent, better coaches and just as much tradition as found in a small town in Kentucky.  That quest led him to Kansas.  There he found a team worthy of his attention.  Kelly became a Jayhawk.

I never get tired of posting this picture.