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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good pic of a great man and father!
Oh no, I didn’t think that :)
“I was NOT putting him down!! GOD Bless him and his family!”
I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to imply you were at all :)
Well, it probably is. But hey, I guess you gotta suffer for fashion.
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