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Bobby Bowden (dadgummit)

Bowden: Restoring wins right call

The NCAA agreed to restore the 111 victories that had been removed from Paterno's record, giving him 409 again. Bowden is second on the list with 377, though he also has had 12 victories vacated.

"That's OK," the 85-year-old Bowden told The Associated Press in a phone interview Friday about no longer holding the record. "I'm glad for him. I was self-conscious about that anyway.

"Every time I would speak they would say, 'He's the winningest coach in I-A history.' I'd say, 'Yeah, after they took 100 away from Joe.'"

Bowden said that while he doesn't know all the details about what went on at Penn State with the Sandusky scandal, it seemed to him the NCAA punishment of Paterno was too harsh.

"I felt like that was pretty dadgum strict," Bowden said.

The NCAA stripped Bowden and Florida State of 12 victories from the 2006 and '07 seasons because of NCAA violations related to an academic cheating scandal.

"By the way, am I going to get my 12 back now?" Bowden said.

Entire article: http://espn.go.com/college-football...appy-ncaa-settlement-penn-state-nittany-lions
 
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Bobby Bowden released from hospital after receiving pacemaker

Legendary college football coach Bobby Bowden was released form a hospital in Tallahassee on Wednesday a day after having a pacemaker installed.

Bowden, 87, was taken to a hospital in Tallahassee on Friday after a case of dehydration and nausea from antibiotics for a swollen salivary gland, according to The Tallahassee Democrat. During his stay in the hospital over the weekend, it was discovered Bowden was in need of a pacemaker.

Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...ased-from-hospital-after-receiving-pacemaker/
 
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Former FSU coach Bobby Bowden, 90, tests positive for COVID-19

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Former Florida State coach Bobby Bowden has tested positive for COVID-19 and is home monitoring his symptoms.

Family friend and Bowden’s former publicist Kim Shiff said the 90-year-old Hall of Fame coach had been hospitalized for about two weeks, being treated for an infection after having a procedure to remove a skin cancer from his leg.

Bowden returned home late last week and was informed by his doctor he had tested positive for the virus on Saturday, he told the Tallahassee Democrat on Monday. He said he had yet to experience symptoms of COVID-19.

“I don’t feel bad, yet,” Bowden told the newspaper. “I guess I can loaf around the rest of the week. I just have to keep an eye out for (symptoms).”

Entire article: https://collegefootball.nbcsports.c...-bobby-bowden-90-tests-positive-for-covid-19/
 
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I honestly didn't know he was still alive.

Wasn't his biggest fan but hate to see anyone go to the COVID. A parachute not opening... that's a way to die. Getting caught in the gears of a combine... having your nuts bit off by a Laplander, that's the way I wanna go!
 
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