Jim Kelly's cancer is back

Does not sound good. Sorry if this is a d_b but didn't see it anywhere else.

http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2014-03-24/jim-kelly-cancer-returns-spreading-surgery-oral-cancer-jaw-removed-teeth-buffalo-bills

 

Damn. Cancer's an indiscriminate, persistent bastard.

 

Jesus

Did he chew or dip?

 

Yeah, saw the pic of his daughter lying next to him in a hospital bed and got a big lump in my throat.

 

No. He says he smoked cigars occasionally, but never smoked cigarettes or used smokeless tobacco.

 

Fuck Cancer!

 

Saw him in the Charlotte airport a couple years ago, boarding a flight to Buffalo. He was 50 at the time and looked like he could still play middle linebacker, let alone quarterback. Just an enormous man.

One of the airline employees asked him if he was Jim Kelly. Without missing a beat, he said "No, I'm Doug Flutie."

 

Damn. I really hate that. Way, way, way too young.

 

That's really scary, then.

 

My mom's uncle was a similar deal. He never touched cigarettes and he died of lung cancer in his 50s. My grandfather, who smoked two packs a day for 50 years, lived to 70.

 

When I go to the dentist, he tries to sell me an oral cancer screening by quoting some insanely high percentage of cases that have nothing to do with tobacco. I think he said it was more than half.

The obvious inference is that it's a rise in Michael Douglas-style cases, but that's a tough topic for a dentist to bring up.

 

"Have you been going down on Catherine Zeta-Jones?, If so, I have a good cancer screening for you..."