Jim kelly cancer diagnosis

Jim Kelly - PHOTO BY Ben Norman

In a dark, empty office building a few yards from his foundation’s headquarters, Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly scrambles to make sure he’s wearing his wedding ring.

He won’t do an interview without it.

Of all the labels that have been applied to the remarkable Buffalo Bills all-time leading passer over the years, the one that fits him best seems to be “family man.” In an hour-long meeting that was intended to focus on his own cancer journey, Kelly kept turning the conversation to his brothers, and his wife and his two daughters.

“For me, I know that all the things I’ve been through — good and bad – I’ve always had a very good team around me, whether it’s been in sports or in life.

In the game of life, it’s been my five brothers, my mother and father, and, of course, my wife and two kids,” Kelly said.

Kelly is hardly the only person to hav