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Indulge me, please. Clemson received another Angel
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Indulge me, please. Clemson received another Angel


Apr 13, 2021, 7:12 AM

I read Tigernet every day, but don't post much unless it is Pregame Show related. But I am always warmed in the heart by prayer requests or personal tidbits of great Clemson people that no longer remain with us.

Clemson University and Clemson Athletics received an angel as my mom lost her long battle with Alzheimer's.

Shirley Rhymer was the only member of her family that was not a Clemson graduate (husband and each of her 3 children are). But our combined love of Clemson could not match hers.

Mom never, and I mean never, missed a Clemson game if she could go and then never, and I mean ever, missed the broadcast if she could not go. She preferred the radio broadcast with Jim and then Pete and then Don. I don't think she ever missed a minute of a Tiger Pregame Show until she got sick.

Dubbed "Mama Rhymer" by Roy Philpott, she provided food for those first few years of the Tiger Pregame Show on WCCP.

She loved Clemson win or lose.

As irony would have it, she fell in the stands at a Clemson game in 2012 that resulted in us having to place her in a assisted living facility for the remainder of her life on Earth. For her last day not hospitalized or in an assisted living facility to be inside of Death Valley watching her beloved Tigers play football is a gift to us.

Two lessons mom gave me about Clemson.
1. You do not have to be a Clemson graduate to be special to this University and to the Athletic Program.

2. You win with class and lose with class. After Aaron Hunt kicked the game winning field goal in 2000 vs. South Carolina (The Catch Part II), I came back to the tailgate as a stupid 28 year old still acting like a 17 year old...taunting a few Gamecocks as I made my way through Lot 2. To say I received a verbal lashing from my mom when she saw that would be putting it nicely! Her direct quote, which I remember to this day, was "treat them like you would want to be treated if the same gut-wrenching thing happened to you and Clemson...which it will one day"

To this day, I have never indulged in that type of bravado over an athletic event.

Rest In Peace a true Clemson mom.

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