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'Bye Felisha:' Lions QB Brad Kaaya's mom inspires iconic 'Friday' movie line

ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- It was never a big deal to Brad Kaaya and growing up in Los Angeles, where actors and actresses are pretty much everywhere, he never realized how relevant his mom’s small role in a big movie had become.

Then Kaaya said bye to his mom and left Los Angeles for Florida, where he became the starting quarterback at Miami. And that’s where Angela Means Kaaya’s role as Felicia in the cult classic movie, ‘Friday,’ became a much larger thing.

“For me, she basically just made a 15-minute cameo in a movie that happened to be a famous movie, but in Los Angeles, there are a lot of other things going on and there’s a lot of different types of people you see,” Kaaya said.