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Jim Kelly grew up going to the Church mainly because his parents did, but those visits on Sunday turned out to be a precursor to how his life lives today.
The field marshal of the Hall of Fame is a devout Christian, but it took a long time to reach that point.
In fact, even when he began to trust his faith, God “proved him,” he said in a recent podcast.
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The former field marshal of the Buffalo Bills, Jim Kelly, poses on the red carpet before the NFL Honor Awards program in Symphony Hall. (Kirby Lee-USA Today Sports)
Kelly, of course, lost four Super Bowls in her career, but that pales compared to her four cancer battles and losing her son, Hunter, at the age of 8 in 2005.
“I even got to a point, I would go crazy, I told my wife: ‘If being a Christian is like you, I don’t want to be one.’ I was angry with God.
While his son was sick with a fatal leukodystrophy of globeid cells, Kelly was working as a football analyst and “far from home.”
“To be honest with you, it was a difficult part of my life, not only for me, but for me and my wife. It was a fight. We did not get along … I and my wife lost interest in each other,” said Kelly, who admitted that he was unfaithful.
Jim Kelly is in the field before a game between the Buffalo Bills and the Tennessee Titans at the Highmark Stadium. (Mark Konezny-USA Today Sports)
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“Unfortunately, it reached a point where my mother -in -law faced me and said: ‘If you don’t change your life, you’re going to lose everything.’ And she was right. So, I changed my life … I totally admitted everything.”
Kelly said God “threw me every curved ball”, but for a good reason.
“I know why he took me through all that, to prove my faith and if I will ever give up him. And there is no way. He is the reason I am still here, but my wife, my daughters and the life I live now, I thank God for every day for that.”
Kelly actually said “I didn’t want to listen” about religion, and added that it was “forced Getitng about me” by his fellow NFL players. Then, he gave advice to those who want to help others find their faith.
Jim Kelly greets the crowd when he leaves the field during the Buffalo Bills training camp at St. John Fisher University in Rochester, New York, August 10, 2022. (Network Shawn Dowd/USA Today)
“If you want to change someone’s life, do not throw it on them. They will come in their time. If you keep throwing it and forcing them, you will scare them. That is what happened to me early from the beginning, but the more I thought, the more I loved me. I took it easy, my wife did a great job, she knew when to talk to me and when he did not.
Kelly has been free of cancer since 2019.
