Jim Kelly Tough

[Dr. Lecter]

NEW YORK — On a high floor of Lenox Hill Hospital Saturday afternoon, Jim Kelly, 54, lay propped up in a hospital bed, his head back, hair matted and tousled, a round of pain meds and antibiotics coursing through his veins. He looked tired. His daughter Erin, a freshman at Liberty University, held his hand as he ticked off what life has been like for him lately. Four Kelly brothers and father Joe ringed the room, along with younger daughter Camryn (pictured atop this story), and his wife, Jill, followed his every word from the foot of the bed.

“There is no way I’d be here without my faith,” Jim Kelly said. “It’s been such a roller coaster. So many things. The Super Bowl losses, the fabulous career, my son born sick, making the Hall of Fame, my son dying, two plates and 10 screws in my back after major surgery, one plate and six screws in my neck after another surgery, a double hernia, the cancer, surgery on my jaw, the cancer coming back, now what I’m facing. But …”

He looked at Erin.

“When you’re going through pain, you’re what?” he said.

Not even a millisecond elapsed.

“Kelly tough,” said the eldest daughter of Jim Kelly.

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/03/31/jim-kelly-cancer-monday-morning-quarterback/?eref=sihp

[jimmifli]

My uncle had a daughter that suffered from some terrible disabilities, mental and physical. Her life expectancy was 18 months, she lived 13 years, suffering for most of them.

He had a heart attack in his early 40s and later was hit by a car leaving him in a wheelchair and unable to work. He got dealt a ****ty hand in life. And it ate him up.

He was the biggest ******* I've ever met. Infinitely angry. And man, as a father, I can understand that. He was tough as nails.

Jim Kelley is tough, without the anger. That's pretty special.

[Luisito23]

Gotta love Jim...That legend is pure heart.

[DynaPaul]

Go Jim. (By the way, your daughters are hot.)

[DraftBoy]

Go Jim. (By the way, your daughters are hot.)

Isn't one of them only 15?

[ServoBillieves]

God Bless that man.

[Novacane]

That article was a tearjerker! Glad to hear it's not in his brain yet. Jimbo makes me proud to be a Bills fan.

[Dr. Lecter]

Isn't one of them only 15?

Says the man who lives in Georgia............

[DraftBoy]

Says the man who lives in Georgia............

He didn't say anything about 2nd cousins...

[feldspar]

Isn't one of them only 15?

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/HikoTanifuga/Dumb%20Pictures/chris-hansen-2.jpg

But actually, the age of sexual consent is younger than that in a lot of developed countries, such as Italy and Germany...just sayin', it's 14 in those places with some strange stipulations. It's freakin' 13-years-old in Spain, and all those pedophiles need to take a seat right over there.

[DynaPaul]

Guys, I was just making a note of it. Obviously at 40 years of age I'm way too old for his daughters. Besides, I like MILF porn.

[Jan Reimers]

Jim is tough because of his faith in God. He has turned his life around by becoming a Christian.

I pray for his recovery everyday.

[Historian]

Kelly is a real life Rocky Balboa.

(Without the loan sharking bust on his record)

[jimmifli]

(Without the loan sharking bust on his record)
What do you call those years in Houston?

[Figster]

Jill Kelly ‏<s>@</s>HJKforever (https://twitter.com/HJKforever) <small class="time"> 13m (https://twitter.com/HJKforever/status/456573326379339777) </small> He was feeling a little better earlier today so I snuggled in and snagged a picture. We continue to… http://instagram.com/p/m3nVwMLI56/ (http://t.co/xJN6o8PECC)

[Figster]

Jill Kelly ‏<s>@</s>HJKforever (https://twitter.com/HJKforever) <small class="time"> 13m (https://twitter.com/HJKforever/status/456573326379339777) </small> He was feeling a little better earlier today so I snuggled in and snagged a picture. We continue to… http://instagram.com/p/m3nVwMLI56/ (http://t.co/xJN6o8PECC)

I asked Mrs. Kelly to give Jim a big hug from all of us at Billszone (in a tweet)

[Figster]

Jill Kelly ‏<s>@</s>HJKforever (https://twitter.com/HJKforever) <small class="time"> 4m (https://twitter.com/HJKforever/status/462259939965411328) </small> A quick update! Go BILLS! <s>#</s>prayersforJK (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23prayersforJK&src=hash) <s>#</s>BuffaloBills (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BuffaloBills&src=hash) Exodus 14:14 http://instagram.com/p/ngBWKkLI8u/ (http://t.co/6pp75rSvJD)