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Article: BILES FINDS IT'S NEVER TOO LATE.(Sports)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- February 18, 2005
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Byline: Lonnie Wheeler
Ed Biles was just minding his own business at a Bengals game, which a man certainly has the right to do at the age of 73. He was there for an afternoon with his granddaughter from Lexington, who hadn't been born yet when Biles was coaching the Houston Oilers back in the early '80s.
H.P. Patterson had, however, and when he figured out who Biles was, he approached in a way that threw the older man off-guard; off-center, too.
"He came over to me," said Biles, who also coached the Xavier University football team back when was there was such a thing, and it beat Kentucky, "and said, 'Hey, you're just the kind of guy I'm ...