KKHI Conversation: Author Ron Freeman's is Story so Much More Than Football
Kevin Kietzman Has Issues
Kevin Kietzman
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🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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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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