BobbyBowden Diagnosed With Terminal Medical Condition
91+yrs is a hell of a life. Didn’t realize he was quite that old.
He has definitely used the entire runway
Being a male at 91 is itself a terminal condition. Live long, die fast.
I totally thought he had already passed.
You may be thinking of Keith Jackson.
I'll never forget the hapless feeling when Bowden visited Ann Arbor in 1991 and soundly kicked our ass to the tune of 51-31. I was a very bummed undergraduate student walking home after that game.
That should have been a meaningful look at reality for the whole fan base. Unfortunately, many went provincial ("Our goal is to win the Big Ten championship!") in response.
It was a wake up call and they did change things. Two recruiting classes later was the back bone of the 1997 National Champions.
What was the "meaningful look at reality"? They lost to FSU who quite frankly was really damn good back then.
Well said.
I was a student then and other than the ass kicking (and score much closer than the actual game was) all I remember is 100,000 middle fingers extended most of the game mocking the FSU war chant.
Yeah, though as I remember we hung with them, and were tied at halftime. The second half their talent started to dominate and they pulled away ...
if i recall, their RB took over in the second half. #42 i think. blanking on his name. but remember those high strides of his.
Amp Lee
While this is true, remember that Moeller shut down the offense in the second half and did his best Bo impression - try to control the clock to keep the other offense off the field, win the game through defense. But Bowden didn't play along - he kept his team wide open.
It's a lesson that Michigan football still hasn't learned...
Was there as an undergrad as well. As I recall, there was a pick 6 on our first offensive snap which did not bode well.
Yes.
Grbac telegraphed a pass to Howard and since speed kills, Buckley took it the other way.
I think I was at that game.... the FSU tomahawk chants were lively... that was Weinke who crushed us, right ? Or Wuerffel. Anyway, Bowden seems like a good guy, and I wish him well. His legacy is that FSU has never been more formidable than with him.
Wuerffel was a Gator. It was Casey Weldon with a tiny bit of Brad Johnson mixed in.
Was this the game where they took a chunk of the field back to Florida with them?
Yes.
FSU has a sod graveyard on campus of all the big time teams they beat on the road as they climbed up the ladder of respectability.
We all have a terminal condition: Life. And that's about as much information as was in the OP and the linked article. The guy is 91 years old and still alive. This is not newsworthy and certainly not MGoBlog worthy.
I agree.
Let's have a thought provoking COVID discussion instead.
“MGoBlog Worthy”
So snooty.
OK, LOL.
How dare someone post something related to football on a football blog. You should report this violation in the mod sticky.
It's not a football blog. It's a University of Michigan sports blog.
Add a douchebag chinstrap and you've got a caricature of WD talking about academicz.
"This is not newsworthy and certainly not MGoBlog worthy... It's a University of Michigan sports blog."
The weekly "what are you drinking" threads are not newsworthy and long discussions of artisanal beers and bourbons have nothing to do with University of Michigan sports, but going by your avatar it's obvious you don't give a shit about that lack of relevance.
Another link to the story. It said he had covid last year. Not sure if that contributed to his illness or maybe it exacerbated it .
Yes, no, maybe so.
Not necessary to opine.
A great man with a life well-lived.
Dadgum it!!!
Off into the sunset.
This is a sad day for college football. Bobby Bowden was part of a golden era of college football. His FSU teams along with Miami changed the game with their speed. He was so consistently good at FSU. So consistently elite.
He did it with Southern charm and congeniality that won over so many recruits families and media members.
He was a character that, while not buffoonish, wasn’t the stolid, grim personages that dominate the game now. College football really could use a Bobby Bowden right about now.
They have one in Dabo!
Awful for Bobby and the Bowden family. I always liked Bobby Bowden. He was a gentleman, gracious in victory and defeat, and very candid in his assessments of his team and their quality of play.
dad gummit!!!
very sad.
I've always detested Florida State but for some reason I never detested Bowden himself.