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Quite a Card: Actor Bill Murray joins Louisville basketball for photo

It doesn’t look like Louisville has outfitted him with any gear, yet, but we might get to see legendary actor/comedian Bill Murray on the Cardinals’ sidelines this season.

Murray, the father of Louisville assistant Luke Murray, took a photo with the Cards that was posted on its Twitter account on Tuesday.

The actor, known for his roles in “Ghostbusters,” “Caddyshack,” “Groundhog Day,” and his stint as one of the original players on “Saturday Night Live,” has been a fixture on the Xavier sidelines in his son’s three seasons as assistant to Chris Mack, who Louisville hired away from the Musketeers this year.

The photo posted Tuesday shows the elder Murray in a navy zip-up and some distinctly blue shoes, which will probably need to be addressed if he’s going to show up this season in the KFC Yum Center.

Murray is no stranger to Kentucky, having filmed the 1981 classic comedy “Stripes” in Louisville, Fort Knox and Clermont. In fact, the opening scene where Murray’s character abandons his taxi and tosses his keys into the river is on Louisville’s George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge, which runs along where the KFC Yum Center would later be built.

Murray also curiously knows the words to a forgotten Benny Goodman song, “Paducah,” which he shared in a random encounter with a baseball fan in 2015.

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