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KKHI Conversation: Author Ron Freeman's is Story so Much More Than Football

Kevin Kietzman Has Issues

Kevin Kietzman

News:sports News, News, Sports News, Politics

4.2804 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ron Freeman was a college football star before playing years of pro football in the USFL and  the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs.  He's also the father of Josh, who played quarterback at KSU and in the NFL for six years.  And while football is a huge part of their family's story, there is so much more.    As a boy, Ron though he wanted to be a black panther.  But going to church as a kid one Sunday, alone no less, Ron chose a different path.  As a leader in GOP politics in the Kansas City area and now the author of a telling new book, he's checked a ton of extraordinary boxes.   His book is titled "Rethinking Race: It's Better Than We Have Been Led to Believe" and it's available on Amazon or wherever you buy books.  He's telling a story America needs to hear and one so many on the left try to silence.

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0:00.0

Sports, politics, life.

0:06.2

B-Stock Electronics Outlet Store presents Kevin Keatsman has issues online at B-stock.net.

0:13.8

We have a very special conversation for you today at Kevin Keatsman has issues because not all stories are the same.

0:20.4

This one, to me, is exceptional.

0:22.6

It breaks a lot of what are perceived to be norms in American society. When we talk about

0:28.1

Americans in race, it's often portrayed as only black and white, which we know isn't the case

0:34.5

that this is a melting pot. There are people from everywhere, all types of

0:38.8

backgrounds, upbringings, and types of families, religions, and skin colors. We know this about

0:44.4

our great land. We cherish this about our great land. But Ron Freeman has a particularly unique

0:49.9

experience from all of this because he's lived a pretty amazing life from growing up wanting to be

0:54.9

a black panther to at a very young age going to church on his own and sort of controversially

1:01.4

befriending a white boy where he grew up in southern Missouri and that became a lifelong friend

1:07.8

at a time when those things didn't really happen in the 1960s.

1:11.8

He would go on to Star and play football at Pittsburgh State. He'd play in the USFL.

1:16.9

He was selected by the Buffalo Bills. He got a very short stint in Kansas City playing

1:22.8

professional football for five years. After that, he became the Chiefs Team Chaplain for seven years,

1:28.4

and beyond that, became quite a leader in his community in a variety of different ways.

1:34.7

And continuing this day, he works with kids coaching football with Greater KC Football Academy.

1:41.5

Greater KC Football Academy is online at GKCFA.com. He works mostly with

1:48.0

18, 8 to 14-year-olds, still teaching football. He is Josh Freeman's dad who played at Kansas

1:54.6

State and in the National Football League. Josh now lives in Tampa. After his days in the NFL,

2:00.7

they're an interesting family,

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