People around Tennessee know Andy Kelly as the quarterback who led Tennessee to a 1990 SEC Championship and a come-from-behind Sugar Bowl victory over Virginia.
Folks in Rhea County are getting to know him as their State Farm insurance agent.
Kelly became a full-time agent at the beginning of the year, taking over the downtown Dayton office of long-time local agent Felix Wilkey.
It’s a change of pace for the Rhea County native after 15 years quarterbacking Arena Football League teams around the country and a recent stint as “mister mom” for two daughters, six-year-old Abigayle and two-year-old Campbell.
Kelly told his wife Carissa, who he met while playing for the New Orleans Voodoo, that when they moved back to Tennessee he would be able to find a good job quickly while she looked for work in the chemistry field.