My Father covered FSU for the FLA TIMES UNION. I used to eat dinner with the coaches on Saturday night, spent many hours in the press box watching stories being written, I’ve played catch with Fred Biletnikoff (pre-Bobby’s years), was there on the 50 yard line in Doke when Steve Spurrier was a freshman, FSU won their first game 16-7 against the Gaotors who at that time I hated!
But then I went to Florida and my father spoke to me less, gave me a hard time when the Gators had problems.... My dad lived to see Bobby’s first trip for the National Championship game but did not live to see the 1990’s championships.
Wish Bobby well but like many, he needed to pack up a few years ago.
We were big FSU fans while we were there, but when we moved away, kind of lost track. We’re not big sports fans of any kind, even up here in the home of the Red Sox, the Celtic and the Patriots.
It’s too bad you decided to attend a lesser school and made your father angry at you. But I suppose you can’t stop some kids from being rebellious and stupid at that age.
JUST kidding. I actually attended UF for a graduate degree, too, so I root for both...until your boys play THE university of Florida.
Bowden was a class act up until he started caring less about the program and more about how he could milk it for his family. He and his wife lost a lot of supporters in the last few months with her crass comments and his inability to face reality. I’m glad he left before we had to tear the statue down and brick up the window. But that doesn’t mean I will ever forget that Bowden made FSU choose between suffering with his son’s ineptitude or losing him while he was still the face of a successful program, or that he went back on his own word about leaving the program in good shape, or that his wife thinks Florida State football can’t get along without her husband.
I will look forward to Jimbo proving her senile old @$$ wrong. I will hope that they move Bobby’s statue to overlook the sod graveyard. And I will thank my lucky stars every day that T.K. Wetherell is a Seminole. THERE is a man that deserves a statue on the campus.