Technology and fun goal for Keyes Foundation
Orange Park, Florida – Clay Today,
“This area is full of great athletes who became successes in life and have all remembered where they came from,” said Keyes. “Guys like Lamont and Pookie Floyd; Lamont a University of Alabama football player, and Pookie, an NFL and Canadian football player, always are willing to come back to their beginnings right here at the OPAA fields and work with the kids and make them feel great about doing things on a team, getting coached and being respectful to people wanting to help them. It’s our mission to make them great people when they get older.”
On the football fields, the Floyds, two massively large and still intimidating-looking brothers; 6′-3″ plus, 240-250 pounds plus, are the consummate encouragers for the kids who attended.
“Those two guys have come here for years and it’s a good show to the kids that it doesn’t matter where you start but that hard work, respect and loyalty reward you,” said Keyes, noting Lamont Floyd, a 1990s Alabama defensive standout, now runs an investment and group; IVG Mortgage Services, who partnered with Keyes for the Saturday fundraiser, Gonzago “Pookie” Floyd, was a Canadian Football Grey Cup champion and a Jacksonville Jaguar in his 10 years of professional football, and Keyes, himself, an Orange Park standout than a Bolles football state champion under legendary coach Corky Rogers before college football at Georgia Tech and Central Florida were three of the main components of building the OPAA basketball courts at the OPAA fields entrance a few years ago and keeping the movement going forward. “They never say no to doing something for the community.”
Clay Today, posted Thursday, July 11, 2024 1:05 pm
