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FSU gives Bowden the ultimate sendoff -- a victory |
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Saturday, 02 January 2010 14:19 |
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Eighty years young and having coached in, ahem, parts of seven different decades, Bobby Bowden was just getting warmed up.
Roughly 45 minutes had passed since his coaching swan song had ended at the Gator Bowl on Friday, yet he leaned back in his chair, adjusted the microphone, and launched into another comical anecdote relating to his colorful career. He was just getting started.
Bowden was holding court and telling tales, probably for the last time, and the audience was rightly lapping up every word of it. It takes a spell to wrap up a career that began in 1959, after all.
His wife of 56 years, patiently seated nearby, could see it was time to bring the hook. Ann Bowden stepped onto the podium, planted a soft kiss on her husband's cheek, and told him, "Time to go home, baby."
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