When Tim Bourret called Levon Kirkland up earlier this week and told him he will be inducted into Clemson’s Ring of Honor later this fall, the first people he thought about was his parents, Lavern and Helen Kirkland.
“The main thing I thought about was my father’s last name, my mother’s last name, is going to be on the stadium. And to me that is amazing,” Levon Kirkland said to The Clemson Insider on Friday.
It also reminded the former All-American and All-Pro linebacker of a conversation his father had with him one day after church, just a few years after he retired from the NFL.