On the morning of July 20, Paul Kennedy, the radio play-by-play announcer for Alabama football from 1983 to ’87, attended the funeral near Birmingham of his former Crimson Tide broadcast partner, Doug Layton, who had succumbed to cancer five days earlier at the age of 81. After the service, Kennedy, 61, now an in-studio television host for the Tampa Bay Lightning on the regional Fox Sports Sun network, had lunch with some friends and then got in his rental car and drove about 15 minutes north to the city. He still had a few hours before his flight back home to Tampa.
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