Yesterday I witnessed quite the desire from this man with his wife to watch Kentucky Football. This is a wonderful story and I hope someone knows this guy ... So we were walking in from the lower purple lot near that helicopter pad and saw this man , in his late 70s or 80s , Fall on the sidewalk up above us about 100 yards away near the round a bout ... several people tried to help him but it appeared he kinda waved them off and continued towards the stadium .. he obviously had bad legs and was weak from the walk. so as we converge on the path I was taking and the path of this couple I see him crumble and fall again . I mean to the ground ( concrete sidewalk ) again people kinda offer to help him up but he only lets them help him get upright .. I'm 30 yards or so ahead of him and I'm like everyone else , wanting to get in the stadium , walk up the loooong ramps to get to my seat but I couldn't let this guy suffer .. so I tell my wife I'm going back to help him .. so I get an arm around him and he puts his arm around me and his his wife .. I look and this man has torn skin on left leg , torn skin on right arm .. he's bleeding from 2 spots but insisted on carrying on , we got about 50 yards from the stadium and he told me " walk me to that chair there and I've got to set for a minute to rest " so while he was setting I went and searched out a " mobility assistance " golf cart " and convinced the driver to go pick him up . Even though he said they were not supposed to go down that path .. so I walked the golf cart guy back this man and helped clear people out of the way so he could get where he needed to get . Once he hit the seat of the cart he thanked me and we exchanged a Go Big Blue , and I hope the guy got to his seat and enjoyed the game ... but what dedication to get to the game . hats off to this man and his wife .
And I wisk UK would change their policy on assisting people out in the Red/Purple/orange lots get to the gate -- we had a lady with us last week that had her knee scoped on the previous Thursday , she was going to use her crutches to try to walk into the game but with all the hills/slopes she walked about 50 feet and aborted and missed the game .. parking assent said no one will give rides into the games anymore because of past issues with misuse of the system . sad , people need some help getting into the stadium , these 2 accounts prove that .. anyway hats off to that guy for no giving up and getting in to see the Cats . Hoper someone may know him or witnessed this .
And I wisk UK would change their policy on assisting people out in the Red/Purple/orange lots get to the gate -- we had a lady with us last week that had her knee scoped on the previous Thursday , she was going to use her crutches to try to walk into the game but with all the hills/slopes she walked about 50 feet and aborted and missed the game .. parking assent said no one will give rides into the games anymore because of past issues with misuse of the system . sad , people need some help getting into the stadium , these 2 accounts prove that .. anyway hats off to that guy for no giving up and getting in to see the Cats . Hoper someone may know him or witnessed this .