It wasn't all that long ago that Jim Kelly was fighting for his life. He was dropping weight and looking sickly, undergoing chemo treatments and surgery to treat the cancer that was attacking his body. Kelly was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma in 2013, and a year later contracted MRSA his bones, shortly after having been declared cancer-free. Now, almost two years after that cancer-free diagnosis, Kelly is back to working at football camps, and feeling really good.
"I feel awesome," Kelly said at his annual football camp, per the Buffalo News. "I'm at playing weight. I'm at 230, which is cool. I gained a little over 30 pounds back, which is good. I got the green light to work out now, which is good. I just started back. Hopefully I'll get a bit stronger."
"I've been through so much. I just live each day, and whatever happens, happens. I've lived a very good life. My life has definitely changed, but the attitude is still the same."
Kelly said that for now, he's just throwing to the younger kids at camp, but pretty soon he might have to step his game up. "The more I get loose, the more I'll start going up, maybe with the seniors," Kelly said. "I will do it with the seniors because they're already talking their crap. I'll have to go out and show them what an old man can do."
Kelly's 56 years old now, and a cancer survivor, but he also threw for 35,467 yards and 237 touchdowns in his NFL career. I'm pretty sure that if he wants to put on a show for those seniors, he can do it, especially if he's feeling awesome these days.
