The power of social media: Bowling Green woman reunited with late son’s football jersey

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.-“You always say, once a purple, always a purple,” said Amy Labron. 

LaBron is finally getting her son Ian’s Bowling Green High School football jersey back. 

The father of two passed away in September. 

“He had a massive heart attack and never made it to the hospital,” said LaBron. 

He was only 33 years old. He had chest pain, but his mom says the doctors attributed it to his anxiety. 

“They didn’t know he had a 90% blockage in one of the main arteries and an 80-90% blockage in the other,” said LaBron. 

Missing her son, she asked one of his high school coaches if he could find his football jersey. 

“I looked for it and couldn’t find it so I got involved with some of the other coaches, and they couldn’t find it so we knew that it had been sold,” said position coach Coach Hayes. 

LaBron took to Facebook, saying that she has to be content with just the memories of him. 

Less than 24 hours later, Bowling Green High alumni Wendy Cossey saw the post. 

“When I saw the picture, I thought that it looks just like the one that I bought. I went and pulled it out of the closet and sure enough it was,” said Cossey. 

She had bought it a few years ago at a jersey sale. She immediately messaged LaBron, telling her she thought she had her son’s jersey. 

“From one mom to another. If it’s something that your child was very proud of and meant a lot to them, they should have it. I was more than happy to give it back to her,” said Cossey. 

A gesture that LaBron will never forget. 

“I can’t have my child. So I want every part of him that I can have to be able to have that jersey and know how much of it meant to him to wear it and to frame it so I can pass it down to his boys is everything,” said LaBron. 

LaBron is currently living in Florida. Coach Hayes said that after school today he is mailing the jersey out to her.