If you don't know who Jim Kelly is, don't worry...the name didn't ring a bell with me, either. I don't give much of a damn about football, football players...or coaches. Coaches, managers...they usually get more credit than they deserve. There's a limit to how much yelling or inspirational shouting can do. You can have Angelo Dundee in your corner, you can have Vince Lombardi at the sideline, you can have Joe Torre in the dugout...and you can STILL LOSE.
Anyway, here's this Jim Kelly guy. Sorry, I don't know who he is, and I don't remember his fucking team winning a Super Bowl. Sorry he's sick.
But fer Chrissake, what's his daughter trying to do here? Isn't it a bit of an invasion of privacy to show a picture of the guy looking like he's at death's door? The man is miserable. He's had teeth and part of his jaw removed. He's got an "aggressive" cancer that's come back. Who the fuck knows if he'll be another Roger Ebert and suffer torturous surgeries, then a week, a month, a year later...die anyway.
What if some paparrazo took the photo and printed it? Questionable, huh? But it's ok because the daughter had somebody take the photo and post it.
EXCEPT...what happens if her father drops dead? How is the family pastor or priest or whoever, going to handle that at the funeral? "Oh, his daughter showed a photo of him, urged everyone to send their prayers and good wishes to cheer him up...and he died anyway. Well, God moves in mysterious ways."
I'm not sure if Jim Kelly really is capable of reading hundreds of idiot "wishing you well" cards. How about a Facebook account where people can LIKE him? Is it possible that reading the cards, or having them read to him, could send those cancer cells scurrying into his colon so they can be shitted into a bed pan? Anything is possible, but it seems to me this daughter is tempting fate. Why doesn't she just go into a church with a bullhorn and shout, "Hey God, my Dad's sick, do something about it, or I'll tell the world you don't exist!"
In this world of creepy celebrity fascination and intrusion and invasion of privacy...this photo strikes me as a bit offensive.
I hope this Kelly guy gets well, but I wouldn't go to Casino-DeathList Dot Com to put down a bet. I also think that the news media in general should back off on this shit, so that it stops influencing people like Kelly's daughter from "going public" this way. As if Kelly and his daughter normally invite strangers into their homes, and have clear glass doors on the bathroom and bedrooms? What next here? He takes a turn for the worse and we get more photos? Tweets about "Pray harder?"
God exists? And he's on the Internet checking out photos of sick people in hospitals? God exists...but he makes somebody sick with cancer JUST to see how many cards and letters the patient gets before stepping in? Some weird logic in the world...
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