2025-07-01- KSR - Hour 2

Ryan and Billy speak with two more special guests: Devon Key and Rob Bromley.

 

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and Billy are sports for Kentucky Sports Radio. Matt is

(01:03):
traveling the day it's a travel day for Matt Drew
is in on vacation in Denver, and then Shannon the
dudes down the sun of these buns in Florida somewhere Billy,
So I think we still should maybe try to call
him for the show's over to see what the heck
he's up to.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well, he's got enough vacation days. You know he's gonna
use him.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
They don't roll over, so it's kind of a bullpen day.
We thought we'd bring in a different special guest every
thirty minutes, kind of keep the show moving to different stuff.
We had Sean Woods and Cisco Brian in the first hour.
We start the second hour with NFL Denver Bronco dude.
I still know he was little Devon, a little Devin
Key to me remember of the Denver Broncos Devin Key.

(01:41):
We had you on last year about this time before
you went to camp. Ended up with a great year
last year. Man, where where's your head at right now?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
I feel good, just same as last year, you know,
clear headed, feel good body wise and everything.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
So looking forward to this year again.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
You got on the field a lot, yeah, played a
lot of special team teams and then got on the
field on defense a lot that you know, you had
to you had to earn your stripes, and you did it.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
I feel like I just made good relationships with the coaches,
just had to earn their trust, and I feel like
I earned it, uh, midway through camp and I could
kind of see it a little bit and just through
the season.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
They could always call me and I was, you know, you're.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Kind of like the utility guy. We need you on
this special team. Go here, we need you on this
special team. We need you in the defense to do that,
We need you over here to do that.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Anywhere that they need me. I feel like I can,
you know, go do it. I feel like that's another
reason why they've instilled their trusting me.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
You just got back from OTAs not long ago and
everything go.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Yeah, everything was good.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
We'd do it a little different, uh, Coach Payne, you know,
he's big on the you know, conditioning and weightlifting, So
we did that a little bit longer than you know,
most other teams and then got our OTA prices in
and I mean they were good. I feel really good
about this team this year. Everybody looks ready to go
and more confident than ever.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
We talked about this when you were here last summer.
Lexingon doesn't produce a lot of NFL football players. We
just don't.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
University of Kentucky does, but Lexington doesn't. And right now
with you and Jedrick Wills and Landing Young, got three
guys that kind of grew up together playing together all
in the NFL. Lucky Lucky Jackson forgot about him. I
mean that's kind of cool.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
That's super cool, just you know, because we were all
friends coming out of high school too, Like growing up,
we played against each other in middle school, high school
and just kind of stay connected in a way. Not
don't you know, talk to each other every day, but
it's one when you see him in town or actually
you see him on the game feeling, you know, it's
always what's up?

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Like because we're from the same place.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Do you like, uh is there? You still have like
pitch me moments to think that when you look in
the locker room or you're in a game and you're like, man,
I'm in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Every once in a while, I was telling, you know,
a few friends maybe last month or Cole westgo and
I was just like, you know, I don't think it's
really hitting me yet I'm just kind of living in
it right now. And then I feel like after the
fact it's gonna be like all right, like I was
actually there, like, but I've been enjoying my time so far.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
So this will be your fourth year, fifth, this will
be your fifth.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yeah, going into my fifth year. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Okay, you had two with the Chiefs. Yeah, and then
the rest has been with the Denver Broncos. See, like
I said, but earlier, I still see his little Devin Key,
the guy that Corey Price just posted the picture of
one of the fastest kidding down race eleven years old.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
I was gonna say, I don't know where he got
that picture from. I wonder if my mom even has that.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Well that's pretty cool. But you know, it happened so fast.
It seemed like, you know, you left Brian's station, went
to Western Kentucky. Happened so fast. Next to me, we
know we're watching you play in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Right, I remember, I mean just on draft day obviously,
like you guys are over there, and then to the
end of the draft, and you know, it was that
process of where it was like everybody's name called and
mine get called and then went on the draft though,
but it still was a great day to just have
the people closest to me around, you know, for that moment.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
So where do you see yourself with the Broncos this year?
I feel like I feel good same as last year.
Uh see myself, you know, playing on special team, you know,
being in there on defense whenever asked, you know, Uh,
Matt Marsh was the principal at Santerville Elementary and now
it's uh, I'm drawing a blank on his name right now.
He's gonna kill me. I can see his face againything Noblin,

(05:13):
Oh Yeahlin is the principal. Now I tell both of them, said,
you know, Sandersville Elementary School has produced in NFL.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
I was the first, I guess you would say graduated.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
You were fifth grade, fifth the first fifth grade class
in the new school. So they have produced an NFL
player Sanderville Elementary School. So I think that's pretty cool that. Yeah,
Brian Station is you know, they've had Keel Sandford, Cornell, Burbage, Franklin,
Master DERMANI.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
You know, so a few come through there.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Brian Station has produced a good level of NFL talented athletes.
For sure, it won't get enough love, but we're over there. Well,
that's what I'm gonna say. They why Brian Station should
embrace that. These kids that are Brian Station now need
to know. Dude, they were here, they were in this
locker room. They made it to the NFL. Why do
they do something a little more over there? Oh no,

(06:04):
I think I put that on me a little bit too.
I don't go over as much, So maybe that's something
I gotta do. I think your dad told me they
do have something in the weight room or the locker
room with you guys. Yeah players, Yeah, that made it
to the NFL and everything. So I do have to
say this, you look a lot different. You finally cut
all your hair.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
I did.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
When is the last time you had a haircut?

Speaker 4 (06:24):
That's probably like my sophomore year high school.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
So you haven't had a haircut since your sophomore year
of high school. Billy, he had Troy Polamalo hair So
you didn't have a your entire five year career at
Western Kentucky, you never had a haircut. And then you
just got to cut just not long not long ago.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah, I was tired of it, looking for something new.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
What do they do? Did they take it and do
something with all that hair.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
Just he cut it off, dropped on the floor.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
You know, Billy are a producer here. He's a Western
Kentucky hill top room.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
When you were playing there, Billy, Oh.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, of course that was a great player.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Were you working in the media when he was playing
over there?

Speaker 4 (07:07):
What years were you there, dev My first year is
twenty sixteen and then last year twenty.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Twenty, So yeah, I was there thirteen to seventeen. So
I was getting banned from the football premises right when
you were there.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, they banned him because he was a little critical.
You were critical of the head coach.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Billy's they you know, they I think were you a
Sanford recruit, Devin.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Or uh No, I was a Brom recruit, Brom.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, that's when things were well there, and then Sandford tookos.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
Were rolling for sure, to tell people, but.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
They didn't like squeak Wheel getst the oil.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
You know.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
I don't know if you guys know, but Sanford is
a he works media out there in Denver. Now, so
it was last year during camp he had, you know,
he was doing interviews and then feel somebody come up
behind me and kind of grab my show. I'm like
all right, who is this? And then I turned around
as him. Oh wow, I think that was the first
time I saw him since Western. Yeah, so its crazy.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, Coach brom recruited you, but you never got to
play for him.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Right, No, so I got so he was still there
my freshman year.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Oh he was there.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, so my first season where I red shirted, he
was the coach there. Okay, after the season, that's when
he left to go to Purdue.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
And then you played for Sandford your rest of your
career two years.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
And then Tyson Hilton.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Tyson Hilton, that's right, that's crazy. Sandfors now with the
Denver Broncos. Year with the Denver Broncos up there. So
what what do you remember the most about your career
at at Western Kentucky. You got to play in a
couple of bowl games, had to play.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
A few bowl games. Uh.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
We only won one bowl game though while I was playing.
But probably just you know, the small community of Bowling Green. Uh,
it was always nice, you know, being there. Wasn't nothing
too big. He had a lot of food places, which
I love to love to enjoy.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
Uh. That's where me and my wife had our first kid.
Like there was a lot of memories that.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, just just the brotherhood that I made with a
few players that you know, we still stay in contact today.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
I gotta tell this story. I camere if I told
it last year or not. So you read shirted your
freshman year at Western, your first college football game, where
year in uniform? Yeah, you don't tell your parents you're
gonna start at safety. They did not know until the
defense walked on the field and saw you in the backfield.
You never told them you were going to start at safety.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
Well, I got another story that kind of relates it.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
At Yeah, when I first got my first start of
the NFL to tell him either, you.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Didn't even tell if you're going to start the NFL.
Were they there that day?

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, they were there, uh huh. So I just kind
of made it like a big surprise. I knew both
of them were coming out, so I was like, you know,
I'm not even gonna tell them. I'm just you know,
first play the game, just be out there, just run
out there.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Well, don't that he said when you walked out at Western,
Kentucky goes what's he doing out there? You know, It's
like I thought you'd made a mistake. What's he doing
out there? And you started, and I know when he
saw you started in the NFL, he probably started. You know,
your dad's a big baby anyway, probably crying like a
big baby over there.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
So yeah, same story.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
And then after the game we're like they ever just
joking around like why did you do that?

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Again?

Speaker 4 (10:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (10:16):
You had some great moments in the NFL last year.
What was your think? You're the one I know you
You tackled Baker Mayfield one time. I got that great
picture of.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
You doing that, got a sack on hell, it was
my first sack of the NFL. Kind of fell into
it in a way, uh, you know, you know, taking
my dropping coverage and then I have anything and then
he got out of the pocket when I made a tackle.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
So that was my first one.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Uh but yeah, it's probably most memorable is probably when
I got another start uh at home, and it was
the defensive introductions. So my first start was it was
the offensive introduction, so I didn't get to run out
like by myself, and while the while they like put
my name and stuff on the jumbo trunk. So I
was like, dang, like I wish I would have had

(10:59):
that moment and then one of our safties got heart
the week before, so the next week they're like, all right,
deb we're gonna start again. And it was the defensive
introductions and I was like, yes, like I'll have that
moment where I can run out and it's just like
me and the crowds like yelling everything.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
I feel like that was like super cool.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
So you did have a pitch me moment. That was
a good guess.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, that was the one of smoke going up in
the air, firewers, shoot running out, started an NFL game
and everything on there.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
So uh, well, well we'll take a break with taking
of their phone calls. Eight five nine two Ato two
too eight seven. You want to call and ask him
about football. I got to ask about your little brother
what he's up to now? So he kind of sure,
He kind of left us see what he's up to
and all that. You got a new member of your family.
We got, we got a lot to cover. We'll come back.
Eight five nine two Ao two too eight seven. That's
the Car's Pumping shop phone number. We got Devin Key
on KSR. We come back. All right, welcome back. You know,

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Speaker 2 (12:20):
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We were here on the patio at KS Bar and Grill.
We're doing some renovations behind us, so we're out on
the patio. I went in and took a little sneak peak.

(12:47):
What's going on, Billy. There's a lot of stuff going
on in there. I think it's gonna be awesome when
we finally reopened again in August.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, and you tasted the new food the other day.
How was that?

Speaker 1 (12:54):
It was really good? We got some really good things
gonna add to the menu. We can't talk about the
oh Cop secret. So joining us for another segment is
Devin Key, member of the Denver Broncos. You and I
we just told one of maybe the best Devin Key
story I know. Can I tell this story about.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
The CanCon story many years ago?

Speaker 1 (13:12):
So we vacationed with your family and my family. We
all vacation down in Cancoon together. And it came the
morning where we had to leave and we had to
catch the shuttle to the airport at like it's like
five five in the morning.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
Yea.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
So we're all got up, we all pack our stuff.
When we're all meeting down in the lobby and we
look around and we're missing somebody. There's no Devon and
there's no Mason allstat they are nowhere to be found.
They have not come home. And we're in the lobby
and we're trying to call you in the cell service
down there. Obviously har awful couldn't call you. So we're

(13:47):
just about to get on the shuttle to go to
the airport. Here comes Devin Key walking through the lobby. Hey,
what's up, how you doing. It's five o'clock in the
morning and you were just walking in. I thought your
mom was going to kill you at that moment.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah, I definitely saw red in our eyes for sure.
It was one of those.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Who you have the wristband to get into all the
little bars in the area of downtown CanCon and take
advantage of it. Yeah, it was our last night. We
were eighteen. We're just like, you know what, like we
were the knuckleheads of you know, just down there being
a tourist and then.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Oh man, like yo, dude, we gotta get back.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
And so then we finally caught like it was like
one of the buzzes in advance to take us back.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
And I mean we made it so I.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Don't know how you pulled it off. You guys ran
up to your room, through your stuff in your suitcase
and made it in time for the shuttle to take
us to the airport.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
I don't know how planned it was, but I mean, yeah,
we had our suitcases ready. It's like we packed before
we even went out, so we were like we were
good to go, no matter what time.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
We get back.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
We gotta talk about little brother. Yeah, had three years
here a Kentucky yep, decides after this past season, he's
going to pack up go to Nebraska, right. I know
he talked to you a lot throughout the process. What
was your advice you gave him? And how did that conversation?
How did those conversations go?

Speaker 3 (15:03):
I just felt like, and you know, as his older brother,
I just had to keep it real with them, give him,
you know, the best advice. You know, I've been through
it obviously not transferring, but you know, just going through college.
And I just told him like, hey, like this is
your last year. You know, you gotta do what's best
for you. You gotta you know, you want to go out there,
put your best foot forward, you know, put the best

(15:24):
film out there. That way you can you know, set
yourself up for the next level, And that decision was
to go somewhere else, just change the scenery. He still,
you know, it was everything in the UK because that's
where he went at first, has spent three years and
loved it here. I just feel like it was time
for him to go, and he felt the same way, obviously.

(15:47):
But I mean, he's he had three different quarterbacks every
year that he was there.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
Yeah, he had three different offensive.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Coordinators, so it was you know, it was just the
ups and downs of it.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
Uh. And I feel like he's in a good position.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
He's getting coached by an ex NFL coach and a
couple guys that I've played with have told me a
lot about the officer coordinator obviously. The receiver coaches there
now that was here last year, So he just had
a great connection with them. And I guess that's the
ultimate reason why he decided to choose Nebraska.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
I think you hit him the two things. I think
he made a difference, the quarterback in Nebraska and the
coaches at Nebraska, Right, I think that was the biggest
difference maker.

Speaker 5 (16:30):
Right.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
I think so too.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yeah, at a quarterback, that's you know, he was a
five star, I'm pretty sure coming out of high school.
And you know, he's got a great arm from what
I've seen, and it seems like he's looking to make
the next step in his career as well, so it's
gonna be good for him.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
I know he's gonna wear Nebraska this year. But I
know your heart and his heart are still here at Kentucky.
Your dad played here, yeah, drug you guys to games
from time you were little.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
I mean my dad had season tickets for the longest
into a probably got to like middle school or high school,
and uh yeah, we would always come to the games
and you know tailgate and I mean.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
Growing up, I mean this is where I wanted to go.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
But you know, obviously, uh things worked out differently for
me for the best fortunately, So uh yeah, I mean
I still live here in Lexington, So I mean that
true tells you how much that the city means to me.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
And I bet you anything, he'll end up living back
down here, like I mean, there's no doubt, yeah, playing
days over as well. We have to give me a
shout out though.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Now for sure it is his birthday today, so y'all.
Flood is Twitter and Instagram with birthday wishes. Uh, he's
uh making the most of his birthday right now.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
He's down there in Jamaica.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Uh, what a tough life.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
Yeah, it's uh it's hard for him out there.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Down in Jamaica to celebrate his birthday.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
He posted a picture of him and Jaden last night.
They had him like cute little matches.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
What is that?

Speaker 4 (17:55):
Hey, it must be the new generation huh.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
Match outfit down there. So happy birthday a little dame
for sure. All Right, I got a message here on
the Avision Glass text machine. Ask Devin if he's gonna
allow Dane to moss him when he makes it to
the big leagues.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Uh. No, I can't allow that to happen. Uh.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
I've talked to a lot of people about you know
what happens if you guys play each other this and
now you're gonna say, hey, I gotta cheating like any
other player.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
If he comes across the middle, you know I got.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
If I got to make a tackle, I'm gonna tackle
him just like anybody else.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
And then you get up and talk smack to him.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
I might talk a little bit of smack, like, hey,
welcome to the league, because you.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Guys are spaced out agentough you never really played together,
oh never, you know, it was play against each other.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, we're six years apart, so it's a we never
got the chance. So I gotta keep up, keep my
foot in the league, and uh yeah, play either play
against each other next year or play with each other.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Who knows, well, you know, I think I told you
I had this dream where you guys both were to
the New Orleans. I think you with the Norland Saints
and Dane was with LSU. Like you guys were in
the same town. Maybe that little yeah up being the
same town or something like that. But yeah, if he
comes across the middle, you're out there at safety. You
got a job to do.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yeah, I got a job here.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
That's little brother. Yeah, I got a job to do.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
I don't want any money coming out of my pocket,
so it's gonna be it's gonna be legal, but uh yeah,
he's definitely gonna maybe think twice about doing it again.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
You know, your Broncos kind of created a little buzz
in the NFL last year. I think they kind of
surprised the people how well you guys played with the
new rookie quarterback and everything.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
So yeah, yeah, I think he's gonna make that next
jump in your two. Defense is still looking good. I mean,
we finished in the top five last year, and uh yeah,
that was the first time that the Broncos been to
the to the playoffs since they made the Super Bowl
back in twenty fifteen. So I mean that was super
great to be a part of and looking to, you know,

(19:53):
take that next uh step and make the playoffs and
then make a push towards the super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
You have the playoff bonus when you make the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
Yeah, they never hears.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
I was I was freezing up there in Buffalo, but
I mean it was nice.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
You were telling me last night and we met. By
the way, your dad had his retirement dinner last night.
Not they're retired, you guys. I didn't realize. You guys,
the Broncos are playing in London this year.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
We are week six after. We pretty sure it's after
we leave Philly we go overseas to London to play
the Jets. It should be a super cool experience just
playing overseas. It will be my first time going to London,
so then it'll be super cool just to play in
the atmosphere amongst you know, fans, that are, you know,

(20:36):
kind of new to the sport. They'll probably show up
wearing all types of jerseys from every different team, but.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
It'll be super cool.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Who are you playing there? The Jets playing the Jets there? Yeah,
they'll probably split. There'll be Jets fans and Bronco fans
just because I.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
Mean you'll see the Steelers jerseys, Vikings jerseys, Jaguars jerseys, who.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Knows, and you're gonna take your whole family.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yeah, We're gonna try to get them all out there.
I mean, what a great experience. And that's another thing
of the NFL. You know, you guys, you're still Devin Key.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
You still enjoy going to London, right, and they're gonna
let you do some touristy stuff when you're out there.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Right, Yeah, because we'll go out there right after the
game on Sunday, so we'll spend a week out there
and uh get to see the you know, the city
and everything.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Speaking of your whole family, you just had another one.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
I did. Yes, he's uh, he just turned a year
old on June twenty sixth, so, so I mean it's
been going by super fast. I think it's because of
the season and I look back, and I was like,
I mean, where is the time going? Yeah, he's walking
running around really just chasing his older brother.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Well, you guys call him fat man.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
Yeah, fat man, fat fat. He's a little chunky thing.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
A chunky little boy. Is he gonna be your offensive
lineman and gonna be your receiver? It could be.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
I don't know how big he'll end up getting, but
I mean from right now, like you said, it looks
like a little offensive lineman.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Well listen, man, best of luck to you. Know, I'm
super proud of you. Love watching you play. If love
lucky place. You're in middle school? Yeah, at LTMs right
down the road down there, so hanging their best luck
to you, and I can't wait to see you play
this year and improve on what you've been doing.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
Sure, thanks for for having me.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Devin Key, Denver, Broncos, Cots, crazy man. Now, these young
guys and we watch them grow up. Dane's gonna be
an NFL Ty Bryant, oh yeah, Cisco's son's gonna be
in the NFL, and all these guys from Lexington. You
watch them grow up and all of a sudden they're
You're on there on TV playing in the NFL. So
it is so cool. How bout.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
Oh yeah, it definitely gets to you. Uh, that's it. Yeah,
it takes about like it takes me about like two
to three days.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
It kind of used to it again, but yeah, the
air super dry, kind of it's heavy on your lawns.
It's it's a different experience up there working out.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
I guess especially at probably next year.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
Yeah, especially other teams that come to play at home.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
So I guess that's why they got to come a
couple days early to try to get accustomed to it
and they play.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
You guys, it's tough though.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
We got one more special guests coming up. I don't
see him yet, but I think he'll be walking up.
And he is one of my all time favorites, Rob Bromley.
I remember Bromley was doing sports when you were background
and so he's retired. Now we're gonna talk to Rob Bromley,
Ron Bromley, Rop Peric exporturey we come. We'll be right back,
Ryan and Billy. This is KSR. All right, Welcome back,
Ryan living here live on the patio at KS Bar

(23:06):
and Grill. Our next special guests showed up. But before
we get to him, Billy, we had to talk about
today's Bobby Bonnie a day.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
It is Bobby Beanie a day. What a holiday?

Speaker 1 (23:16):
He makes another million dollars for not playing? Right, how
many years in a rows you've received this? Now? Uh?

Speaker 2 (23:22):
For fifteen years he's gotten one point one nine three
million dollars each year to not play for the Mets.
That means he's he's gotten seventeen million dollars and he
still has ten years left.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
That's incredible. That's unbelievable. Bobby Bennie a day till twenty
thirty five. So happy Bobby Beaniana Day. And I just
saw too that I guess Shay Gilsis Alexander signed some
massive mega deal with Oklahoma City, like almost three hundred
million dollars or something like that.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
So four year, two hundred and eighty five million, Ryan.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
My goodness. Well, when you're the MVP and you bring
a championship to your city, you can kind of you're
in a good bargaining position.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Oh yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah all right y. Now, then welcome in ournother honor
guest that I'm so excited about this. You know, I'm
an old guy, but for me to say I grew
up watching this guy, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 5 (24:10):
We're old.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
I am old. Retired WKYT sports anchor Rob Bromley. Man,
it's so good to see you. It really is good
to see you. It's good to see you.

Speaker 5 (24:20):
And thanks for whenever you've seen me around or walking
someplace in and out of the ups store, wherever you've been.
That's right, we did one time you've yelled at me
and made a point. And let me say a couple
of things before we get going. Ryan, you're about the
only guy who could text me a quarter to nine
last night and say, hey, will you give me thirty

(24:41):
minutes from eleven thirty to noon and get me to
drive halfway across town to do it. No, you're not
the only one. But hey, how do you get stuck
doing two hours all by yourself?

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Well, how's that happen? Exactly? This is a it's bullpen day,
Matt's having a travel day, Drew and Channing are on vacation.
So well, that's why you're here. That's why I call
guys like you to come in help me here a
little bit.

Speaker 5 (25:04):
I heard the little pieces of your your previous three Yeah,
and it was very interesting and and you know one
thing that was interesting about it because you know, you
grew up in Indiana, right, there was an Indianapolis connection
with Sean and an Indianapolis connection with Cisco, and of
course there's an Indianapolis connection with you having gone to Butler's,

(25:25):
so you know it. But let me let me say
a couple other things. One of your biggest, one of
your biggest fans is my son really Robbie or Robbie
he uh, and we're very proud of him. He's working
for Bosh and he's he's over in Germany for a
month now working. Is he really so he can't Yeah,

(25:45):
he can't hear this.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (25:47):
Today he's in Strawbang, Northwestern Munich working at a at
a at a plant. But yeah, he he he told me.
You know, he's I just love I just like he's
one of your biggest, one of your biggest fans.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
See. I remember, Robbie, you were at the Team Hotel
Kentucky at the Insane Tournament. Robbie is one of the
little kids out there with a pen and paper trying
to get autographs.

Speaker 5 (26:09):
I remember probably the maybe at the SEC tournament.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
Probably the SEC tournament.

Speaker 5 (26:13):
Yeah, in Atlanta and Atlanta and then there's one other
thing I want to say, you know, because we we talked.
It's been a few years now. It was in the
studio out of Nicholasville.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Correct, last time I think you were on.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
But it was you and me and Jared Lorens.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Was it really Jared?

Speaker 5 (26:31):
It was the three of us, and I don't know.
I don't know whether we did the whole well, we
did an hour at least, I know, I don't know
whether we did. But when you here, we are almost
at the anniversary. He passed just before the fourth of July.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
July third.

Speaker 5 (26:45):
Was just before the fourth four What a wonderful guy.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Great guy, and what a great memory you remembering that
he was in studio the last time.

Speaker 5 (26:52):
You know, you have you go through your time, Ryan,
and I've always has been pretty reserved and you know,
frankly kind of kind of shy. But I wish I
wouldn't I wish I would have known him better. Yeah, yeah,
I wish I would have known him, you know, half
half halfway as well as you did. This.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Hope this makes you feel good. His son Tayden, who
was like I think ten at the time when he passed,
has now Division one football offers playing at Fort Thomas Highlands. Yes,
as a tight end, Is that right?

Speaker 5 (27:25):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, so I thought that might make you feel good?

Speaker 5 (27:28):
That does that does?

Speaker 1 (27:29):
You did utter one of the most famous lines that
time when you came in the studio with Jared and
me when you did the show, your famous line that
remember the rest of my life. I said, Rob, you
had such a great career, you were you were getting
ready to retire. So what's one thing you were most
proud of? Ryan, I'm most proud of fact I didn't
have to do one second of sports talk radio. Well,

(27:54):
you know I did.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
I got away with I got away with uh total
in radio and TV. I got away with probably a
little over forty five years. Yeah. Now, of course it
you know, in the early years that I was in
the business when you were talking Ohio, work in small
market radio as a news and sports director, doing high
school games.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah did it.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
Did a season of which was you look back on stuff?
Did a season of bowling Green football? Teach you really
and Don Neelan was the coach. So and I'm twenty
three years old here, you know, and you're doing Bowling
Green football and it was it was fun, it was interesting,
Jack Lambert was Jack Lambert senior year, and Don James

(28:39):
was at Kent and de Crumb was at Miami. I
think Miami went undefeated. They were pretty good, but you
never would think, you know, here's Don Neelan and he's
going to be in the college football He's going to
be top twenty all time.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Oh yes.

Speaker 5 (28:54):
Eventually you know, they ran him out of Bowling Green.
He went up to Michigan and was Schumbuckler's quarterback and
then landed it West Virginia. But those are the things
early in life, when you're twenty three years old, what's
what does it lead to? And it's just but it
was as a great memory from nineteen seventy three and
working in Ohio, I couldn't have I couldn't have been
in Ohio four and a half better years.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
My earliest memory, my first introduction to Rob Bromley was
the Tate delayed broadcast of the UK Games. Yeah that
was I think that's how people in Lexton knew you
from the local news. But for the rest of the
state we got to know Rob Bromley from doing play
by play of the Tate delayed broadcast.

Speaker 5 (29:34):
That was before well before the days of the SEC
network all yeah, other conference networks and well pretty well
a little bit before the days of ESPN. Then eventually
they took it all over. But with football, Ryan, the
first year I did the games was nineteen eighty. Tommy
Bell was on with Tommy Bell, Yeah, I had some

(29:55):
great other like Charlie mccullars and you know, Derek Bill,
Ransdell and many Dusty tim But we did, like I
think the first year in nineteen eighty, we did ten
of the eleven games. Really.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
Now they'd only let us won't do one game live,
and that would always be that would be if it
was on the road, it would be the LSU game,
and then it would be a big non conference game
on the road. They would let us do one game
live on the road. The others had to be tape delayed.
You couldn't start him any earlier than I don't know,

(30:31):
maybe I guess it might have been eleven thirty.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Was as soon as the news is over, Yeah, soon
as the local news over.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
Yes, And of course that's back in the days when
we did basketball too.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
The first year, Ryan, we probably did you know, live games,
We probably did seven or eight live and then you know,
you know, the rest the conference, the conference games had
to be all tape delayed. They wouldn't let us do
a conference game. But eventually it as you go through
the eighties, that's all whittled away and ESPN and you know,

(31:06):
the SEC network eventually came in. But eventually you got
down to the point where you were just doing the
two exhibition games, and then eventually it got down to
where you were just doing big Blue Madness, and eventually
they took that and the whole you know, like.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
You said, you did a couple of football games with
Dusty Bonner.

Speaker 5 (31:24):
And Ago this season he was on the year of
nine to eleven. Because the the Indiana game, so we
had to go up to Memorial Stadium in Bloomington the
first Saturday in December, right the December they rescheduled the
IU game and Dermani did that. Unfortunately it wasn't it

(31:48):
was a fairly mild afternoon, but DERMANI did. But I
had some great uh you know, starting with Tommy Bell
and Charlie McCullers, who was one of Franz's assistants, and
then you know Derek Ramsey. Yeah, we did the Alabama
game together. When when Mummy beat Alabama. That was probably
the the most memorable game.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
That I did you get to you were calling.

Speaker 5 (32:11):
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, and then uh, you know Bill
Billy was on with me, Bill Ransdo. I had some
great some great, uh great people alongside. It was a great,
great memory. Was very very fortunate to to get to
do it.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Not only did you do play by play for football
and basketball, but you also did the coaches shows. So
many years you got.

Speaker 5 (32:31):
Close close to the coaches, uh, starting with starting with
Fran starting with Frank Cercy, and starting with Joe b Yeah.
And when I came here Ryan, I always I will
always say this, I was very fortunate that that Joe
was the coach here with basket because he made me,

(32:52):
he made me feel like I was a part of it,
which was which meant the world to me. And there
were other people over at the Universe City did who
did too? They were they were They were fantastic. Cliff
and his wife, Doctor Singletary and his wife, and you
know who was I, uh, you're Rob Brobably, I was,

(33:13):
you know, I was just you know, pretty young, you know,
twenty six when I came here in seventy seven, and
then thirty when I started doing the stuff with the coaches. Yeah,
but you get pretty close to the coaches and uh uh,
you know, it can be up and down with the coaches.
The hard thing with the coaches were always the downfalls,

(33:37):
right and starting with the first one, you know, was
with with with Fran in eighty one, and then of course,
uh the situation with Eddie Sutton, which was in eighty nine.
And but you know, you have a lot of great
moments and a lot of great memories too, and certainly

(33:58):
a lot of great things things to look back on,
not just here, but you you lived other places. You
grew up in indian indian and I grew up in
up upstate, New York and spent four years in Indianapolis,
four and a half years in Ohio. In the last
forty eight I've been here and I've been four I
met my wife here and I raised my son here.

(34:19):
They're both UK graduates, and like I told, we're both
very proud of him and got a lot to be
thankful for, really really do well.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
We're very thankful you're here. I'm so excited hear this.
I gave you all kinds of notice. I don't know
what you're complaining. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was.

Speaker 5 (34:35):
It was like quarter to night. I was watching something
on Netflix there and I didn't see the mess. I
didn't respond to it too. I gave you a ton.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Of of yes, Yes, you did a ton of of yes. Okay,
what does Rob Bromley watch on Netflix? Oh gosh on
a Monday night? We you know, we're getting up in
our ears.

Speaker 5 (34:55):
We've been watching that series of The Crown, yes, which
is very good stream well cast, and who in the
world knows what the private conversations were between the Queen
and the Prince of Wales and all this stuff. Well,
who knows, But it's it's interesting to watch, and you

(35:17):
can you can really learn a lot if you go
way back to the earlier seasons of it with Elizabeth's
life and the historical stuff. Yes, what she went through,
and what the years were like when she first became
queen and all of that. Who the prime ministers were,
what her dealings were with the prime ministers beginning with

(35:39):
Churchill and all that. It's you can learn a lot
from it, but who's to say what? And I'm, for one,
I don't care for rewriting history. I don't I don't
really care for it. Like I heard you guys talking.
I listened occasionally. Somebody was talking about something on Jerry
West that he he threw his MVP through and do

(36:00):
or something that there was some kind of the documentary
about the Lakers, Yeah, depicted that, and he was suing
because he didn't do that. Uh huh, Well, you know
I can understand his point on that. Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
I don't you want to dramatize it so much.

Speaker 5 (36:13):
Well, you you know you're doing television. Yeah, that's what
you're doing, right, We're gonna get somebody to watch this.
But he insisted that never happened. Yeah, and I certainly believe.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
I believe him more than the producers that were putting
try to make like you said.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
TV good.

Speaker 5 (36:29):
That's where it comes down.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
We gotta take our break. We'll come back. We got
one more segment, Rob Browley. I could talk to you
for two hours. We got story atory. I would love it.
And I'm so glad you decided to come in, even
though you didn't invite you till late last night. So
we'll take our final break, come back. Final segment. Rob
Bromley here on the patio at Cas Bar and Girls
Up CB Ryan Lemon, we'll be right back. There was
the Rob Bromley drop, one of the most famous drops.

(36:50):
We had play it one more time, Billy, so let
me make sure he can can hear it. And he
had some swagger. I think you were talking about John Caliperry.

Speaker 5 (37:02):
Where was that from?

Speaker 1 (37:03):
We pulled it off one of your sports cats. I think, wow.
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Rob Bromley, the retired guru from WWKYT. You know a
lot of you guys have kind of decided to hang
it up that I when I got here, Alan Cutler,
Rob Bromley, Jerry Tipton, now John Clay. You guys are

(38:09):
all the guys that I admired and looked up to
and aspired to be someday are all decided, Man, enough's enough. Yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (38:19):
You know, I got more, like I said, more than
forty five years out of it. Ryan forty here, almost
forty one.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
It's amazing, But I was.

Speaker 5 (38:28):
You know, it's it's uh not easy to go that long.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
No, it's not.

Speaker 5 (38:34):
You go through a lot of ups and downs.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Well, you know we're talking. During the break, I go
to I never see the eleven o'clock news. The eleven
o'clock news been a big part of your life and
my life for so long. I am never up long
enough to see the eleven o'clock news.

Speaker 5 (38:52):
I started doing the eleven o'clock news at Olio and
Lima the week that President Nixon resigned in August of
seventy four. That's when I started working nights. And I
work nights until the very end of September. Yeah, twenty seventeen.
So how many I mean, how many years I work nights? Basically?

(39:14):
And you know, you get home and you know, I
don't go right to bed.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
You can't go to bed.

Speaker 5 (39:17):
You get home o'clock, you know you're watching television, you
get something out of the refrigerator and.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Watching Dave Letterman.

Speaker 5 (39:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's just And I'll tell you when
I first started doing it, after doing early morning radio
for two years, it felt great. It felt great to
sleep in. But I think as you go along and
you're not in your twenties anymore, you're in your thirties,
it gets a little more complicated. And when you're in
your forties, it gets a little more complicated. In your fifties,

(39:46):
it gets a little more. You know, you have a youngster,
and you depend on your wife a lot. Certainly I did,
and but got through it, you know, got through one.
The whole landscape of the business changed a whole lot
as far as what radio it was owned by by

(40:06):
local people like KYT was owned by Kentucky Central. Uh.
I only went through one sale. That's when that's rare.
That's when the insurance I had, the insurance company here
fell apart. I had Kawood Ludford say to me once,
you know, he said, you know, Rob, I never went
through a sale. Wow, because I guess I don't know.

(40:28):
By the time h. A. S And the Bingham Empire
was was broken up over there. Yeah, he had already
been out on his own. Uh huh. But that he
told me he never he never went through a sale.
But that's that can be a difficult thing.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
In our line of work. It happens all the time.
And you're kind of starting the clock over. We're just
about out of time. Like I said, we got to
come back. We've got a bunch of stories to tell. Uh. Really,
really good to see you, man. You look great. I mean,
retirement retirement has done you well. Partner. I'm telling you,
I'm still and still standing doing well.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
Thankful to the all the people who you know come
up to me and say something, and you know, I
always felt a lot of love Ryan, once I got outside,
you know, once you went outside the walls of the
station and got out there, and people are wonderful.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
That's the best part about this business.

Speaker 5 (41:19):
Could the people place?

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Yeah? The people we work with is what I missed
the most about this business. And I think you probably
agree the same. Listen man, thank you very much. You're well.
Great to see you. Thanks you and I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (41:28):
Talk.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
We have a remote tomorrow, Billy. We're in Versailles at
a standard bred horse farm tomorrow right.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Yes, High Bramble Park should be a good time out there.
There's going to be free coffee for people there and
some food.

Speaker 5 (41:39):
As well, I believe.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
Hi. Bramble Park in Versailles, the pre show and KSR
Matt will be back. We'll be doing the show there.
It's our last show because we're off on Thursday and Friday,
so we'll come out and see us a rare show
in Versales, Billy. We don't do bre these shows in Versailles.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Yeah, looking forward to it. Versailles.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
In some Versai. Thanks to all my guests, Sean Wood,
Cisco Bryant, Devin Key and Rob Bromley. We've back at
High Bramble Park. Come on for sales. We'll see you
then goodbye,