"If you don’t believe it, watch the next time you see a Jacket game," Elmer Kelly once opined on WFMW AM 730 in Madisonville. "There’s not a boy on the floor who works harder. He is up and down, in and out, over and under every movement on the boards, and must be ready for a strait jacket when the final whistle is blown. Whatever it is that courses through Fox’s veins should be extracted and bottled. The vitamin industry would have its toughest competitor."
Rest in peace, Coach Fox, an Earlington native who in 1967 got the Yellowjackets a championship, got a car and got out. He will not be soon forgotten in his hometown.
The Internet, already Amazing, just got better: "From the WFMW Sports archives, here, once again, is the original WFMW broadcast of the 1967 KHSAA Boys State Tournament Championship game with the Earlington Yellowjackets taking the crown! The late Elmer Kelley calls the game from Louisville’s Freedom Hall on Saturday, March 18, 1967."
ReplyDeleteTHIS IS FANTASTIC!
DeleteThe last two minutes of this game are as exciting as any sports event you will ever hear. One of the best state finals ever played. An outstanding broadcast. What a game. What a Commonwealth.
DeleteBring back Earlington High!
DeleteElmer Kelly's elocution is elegant!
ReplyDeleteMy attention for detail, however, is deplorable. It's Kelley, with a second e.
DeleteHe was outstanding. That was better than 90 percent of the college basketball broadcasts you hear today.
DeleteThe local baseball park is named after Elmer Kelley, by the way.
ReplyDeleteThat's an amazing game and broadcast.
ReplyDeleteCoach Fox: "It looked dark. It looked dismal. But I never did give up the faith." That's so excellent.
ReplyDelete"These are good boys. They're good, clean-living kids."
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