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Touching photo of coal miner taking son to basketball game goes viral, and now the coach is getting involved
Right News Now ^ | 10-25-2022 | Jim Clayborn

Posted on 10/25/2022 7:24:50 AM PDT by montag813

by Jim Clayborn | RNN

Here's a touching palate cleanser to start the day.

The Kentucky Wildcats hosted their annual "blue-white scrimmage" when a father and son caught the eye of Coach John Calipari.

The father, a coal miner, sat there with his face still covered in coal dust while his son looked excited to be at the game and with his dad.

Coach Calipari snapped a photo and tweeted "My family’s American dream started in a Clarksburg, WV coal mine, so this picture hits home. From what I’ve been told, after his shift, he raced to be with his son & watch our team."

A user responded with an incredible comment the man's wife Mollie McGuire posted on Facebook. She was at the game with them:

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KEYWORDS: americanstory; basketball; coal; dadsbeingdads; familytime; godbless; kentucky; miner
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To: montag813

Nice to see Calipari recognize the coal miner.


61 posted on 10/25/2022 8:53:53 AM PDT by kenmcg (t)
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To: tuffydoodle; thefactor

A perfect description of the post and of the intent of the poster. Well done!


62 posted on 10/25/2022 8:55:07 AM PDT by glennaro (Live life unbullied and unafraid. Choose to ignore or fight the irrationality that surrounds you.)
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To: circlecity

“ the man’s wife Mollie McGuire ”
Interesting name for the wife of a coal miner.
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It is indeed and she carries it proudly.


63 posted on 10/25/2022 9:04:25 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: lee martell

sniff....so TRUE!


64 posted on 10/25/2022 9:12:16 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: thefactor

Miners are a different breed. My husband comes from a long line of WV coal miners. They are tough, independent minded, very much believe in God, family and country.

And they say what they believe and believe what they say.

His father was a red neck, one of the original miners who held the line in Appalachia. He died in the early 1950s.


65 posted on 10/25/2022 9:13:14 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: montag813

Plus......he must have kissed his son because the kid had smudges on his forehead and cheek!


66 posted on 10/25/2022 9:16:34 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Carriage Hill

Indeed. Thank you.


67 posted on 10/25/2022 9:22:08 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Ann Archy

In his defense, I’d say it’s hard to get all that off in a hurry. And I’d much rather sit next to this family than someone bathed in cologne or perfume with a snotty attitude.


68 posted on 10/25/2022 10:31:00 AM PDT by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: Boogieman
How racist of him to show up in blackface at a basketball game of all places!

Ok, that was funny.

69 posted on 10/25/2022 10:40:36 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: circlecity

I doubt that her name was Molly McGuire, maybe a nom de plume. Most people today wouldn’t know what a Molly McGuire was.


70 posted on 10/25/2022 10:41:05 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: OpusatFR

I loved the scene in the movie Chernobyl where the commie leader shows up at the coal mine and tries to tell the miners that they work for him now. Tough men for sure.


71 posted on 10/25/2022 10:43:44 AM PDT by enraged
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To: montag813

The backbone of America! Smiling through tears.


72 posted on 10/25/2022 10:58:12 AM PDT by duckbutt (I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery - T. Jefferson)
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To: M Kehoe

Backs will break and muscles ache,
Down there there’s no time to dream,
Of fields and farms, of womans arms,
Just dig that bloody seam,
Though they drain their bodies underground,
Who’ll dare to push them around

The Molly McGuires - by the Dubliners

The scabs and company thugs killed my great uncle and dynamited my grandpa’s house. They put my uncle in jail and ran my father out of town. In turn my kin burned their tipples and derailed their trains. It was a vicious era. No one won


73 posted on 10/25/2022 10:59:10 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: .44 Special
“ I doubt that her name was Molly McGuire, maybe a nom de plume.”

Don’t be so sure about. Many Irish are still very passionate and sentimental about what happened in that era - especially in coal country. I wouldn’t be surprised if lots of McGuire’s named their daughters Molly or Mollie.

74 posted on 10/25/2022 11:01:42 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: montag813

This is the kind of guy that keeps America rolling, not the colored hair freaks visiting Biden, trump should have all these guys at the white house, a blue collar group visit every week at WH


75 posted on 10/25/2022 11:07:06 AM PDT by pangaea6
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To: montag813

Love is very powerful

Hate is very vocal


76 posted on 10/25/2022 11:49:06 AM PDT by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOW) )
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To: duckbutt

You have no idea how this photo touches me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bocDpFVhyDw


77 posted on 10/25/2022 12:05:30 PM PDT by lurked_for_a_decade (Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)
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To: montag813

Brings a tear to your eye for sure. Imagine the hoops he might have had to jump thru to get there on time. But he got it done because taking his son to the game was most important.


78 posted on 10/25/2022 12:19:56 PM PDT by Cloverfarm (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ...)
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To: stylecouncilor

ping


79 posted on 10/25/2022 12:47:13 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: pnz1

I was NOT putting him down!! GOD Bless him and his family!


80 posted on 10/25/2022 1:32:26 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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