Thank you for loving all of us.
Thank you for being the light on dark days.
Thank you for being right, but letting me figure out I was wrong on my own. Then helping me fix it.
Thank you for being the keeper of our stories and the encyclopedia of everything.
Thank you for all the dance floor spins, pick up scoops and rib-crushing hugs.
Thank you for being the glitter and the glue.
Thank you for showing us how to make new friends, but keep the old—even in impossibly testing circumstances.
Thank you for keeping absolutely everything as an artifact: see labeled key to Freedom Hall AD suite still in your desk drawer.
Thank you for being curious, not judgmental.
Thank you for having the best combination laugh—the little one that starts at the end of a sentence, then turns into your signature full-body, throw-your- head-back cackle.
Thank you for your signature disarming “Hey, man…” greeting.
Thank you for showing us how to love your husband/wife and children with abandon, devotion and through you and Donna — what true partnership looks like.
Thank you for loving all of our kids and making them feel so special.
Thank you for all the best stories — especially the ones of you, Nancy, Kathy, Roc and Lori — building this thing from scratch.
Thank you for teaching us how to speed walk.
Thank you for protecting us with your armor of credibility.
Thank you for letting all of us sit with you at the cool kids table—especially the one with the bourbon-soaked gummy bears.
Thank you for being the most genuine
one of one.
Thank you for absolutely everything.
Thank you for showing us all how much more we can be.
We love you forever, Kenny Klein. ❤️
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OTD May 9, 2023. Denny Crum. Legendary U of L basketball coach passes aged 86 years. Beginning first season w/Louisville in 1971, wins two national titles & reaches six Final Fours. National Coach of the Year 1980, 1983 & 1986. Inducted Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1994.
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🚨 THE FINAL RADIO CALL EVERY LINEMAN FEARS - AND AN ENTIRE IBEW CREW BREAKS DOWN
They gather around his truck. Silent. Still. Every man bracing himself for what they’re about to hear.
Then the dispatcher’s voice comes through the radio:
“Clear the airway.”
“This is the last and final call for Kyle Ferree.”
“He has climbed his last pole. His hooks are hung.”
“After six years of service, his work here on earth is done.”
“Kyle, may you rest in peace. Although you are gone, you will never be forgotten.”
“Kyle, you are now clear of duty.”
“Rest in peace, brother. Go with God. We will take it from here.”
And then - one by one - the crew checks out over the radio:
“2:08 checking out.”
“2:11 checking out.”
“2:17 checking out.”
“3:30 checking out, little buddy.”
“3:35 checking out.”
“3:36 checking out.”
And on and on… each man saying goodbye in the only way linemen know how.
Kyle Ferree was an IBEW brother.
A father of two with a third on the way.
A husband. A friend.
Gone in seconds during routine line work.
No reporters.
No speeches.
Just raw loyalty from the workers who climb in storms, ice, and darkness - and know this could have been any one of them.
Who’s really looking out for the people who do this job?
Oh like that time in 2016 when Cole Hikitini was clearly held on a crucial 3rd down call and the refs didn’t call DPI??
Or when the first down marker was mysteriously missing on 4th down?
Or Lamar getting choked by Boulware?
Or crowd noise being pumped in??
Future historians will understand that the key factor in the slide to authoritarianism in the US was the complete absence of an opposition party; instead we had whatever this is.