Bill Keightley
- Thread starter David Rice
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I used to work in Lexington, and our group went out for lunch one day to this place downtown. As we were leaving the restaurant, Mr. Keightley walked in with a few others. He was wearing the exact same UK polo shirt as I was. He looked right at me and smiled really big and said, "I like that shirt son". :smiley:
When I was a student, I would always wait in line to get in the front row of the ERupption Zone. We would call out to him and he would come over and talk to us during warm ups. He was the best.
Yes, I met him on Maui when UK came for the Maui Invitational. I asked him if I could have my picture taken with him, he said, "of course!"....I'll try to find it....and post it....if one of you smart folks will walk me through on how to post a pic.
AlohaCat
AlohaCat
I bumped into him one night in 1972 at a bar called Ray's Place in Cynthiana. He was drunker than a lord. He tried to pick up this woman I was with real aggressively, made her feel very uncomfortable. Later, he started singing Sinatra's "My Way" in a sloppy, obnoxious voice until people were throwing things at him. He started crying then, and telling some long story about how he had always wanted to be an opera singer. Then he heaved all over a woman's feet.
Wait a minute. That wasn't Bill Keightley. That was me. Never mind.
Wait a minute. That wasn't Bill Keightley. That was me. Never mind.
2 Adulterers, or Grover if you please, had a close relationship with him, since Grover was a student-mgr for the BB team. I met him and then spoke with him many times after the first meeting. He was very knowledgeable, likeable, and loved the Cats. He was an "Arnold Palmer type guy" in that once you met him, you felt like he was a friend, rather than an acquaintance. Most of all, and what I liked best, he hated UL as much as I do, which to say, is as much as anyone I have ever met. RIP Mr. Keightley.
I met him twice. The first was at Appleby's Park in the bar. The second time was at the open house for the Craft Center. He was in the equipment room greeting people as they come by. I walked up, shook his hand and said, "hello Bill, how are you doing?" He looked at me and said, "I'm fine. How are you doing?" The way he said it made it sound was like we were old buddies.
https://postimage.org/
I hope this works!!!
AlohaCat
^use this site, upload the pic, then find the "direct link", copy it and use that URL with the image function above the posting text box.
http://[url=https://postimg.org/image/if6ydpmhv/][img]https://s21.postimg.org/if6ydpmhv/IMG_5653.gif[/url][/IMG]
Easiest way is to upload it to YouTube then post that link into the video function above the text box.
I worked for him in 1969-1972..He was Best Man in my Wedding in 1987 and I celebrated his Birthday (December 17th) the last 20 years til 2008 when he passed..RIP Bill
and UH kicked BCG's *** that night! It was embarrassing but BCG was good at that.
Yeah, the only thing good about that night was meeting and talking to Mr. Wildcat.