But during that weekend, there was a lot to do, and staffers from the Hall were moving the family from department to department to make all the plans for August.<\/p>\n
“I forget where we were going next, but I got up to walk out, and Luke said, ‘Dad, you want to get fitted for a suit?'” said the elder Kuechly, now retired from the family auto parts distribution business. “I wear a suit once a year. I’m not working anymore. I don’t need it. Maybe twice a year if we’re going to one of these benefit dinners or something. I don’t know, I’ve got three suits. I don’t need another suit. I’m good.<\/p>\n
‘He says, ‘I know, why don’t you just get measured up?’ I said, ‘I don’t need a suit.’ This is going on and going on. And finally, Eileen’s behind me, she says, ‘Just go ahead and get measured.'”<\/p>\n
As with many Kuechly family transactions, when Eileen spoke, that was that.<\/p>\n
“She’s the boss,” Luke said of his mother, with a nod that comes from years of experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But during that weekend, there was a lot to do, and staffers from the Hall were moving the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[38807,64,63,596,1347,236991,85,13093],"class_list":["post-751328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-app-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-latest-news","tag-luke-kuechly-hall-of-fame","tag-sports","tag-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}