Florida State to use 'Smokey and the Bandit' helmet decal to honor Burt Reynolds
The Florida State Seminoles will honor alum Burt Reynolds with a helmet decal that reads "BAN ONE," a reference to Reynolds' movie Smokey and the Bandit.
Reynolds roomed with ESPN “College GameDay” analyst Lee Corso when the two were football players with the Seminoles. Reynolds played sparingly from 1954 to 1957 because of knee injuries but did score two touchdowns in his time with the team.
“Burt was a life-long friend, who was extremely close to me for the last 64 years,” Corso said in a statement Friday. “We have always stayed in touch, through the good and the bad times of our lives, talking about once a month for as long as I can remember. It was just two weeks ago that we were talking about the upcoming college football season and the Noles. Burt, better known as ‘Buddy’ to his friends, loved FSU football and no matter how big a star he became, he never forgot his friends from the FSU football family. I will forever remember our conversations and the true friend that he was.”
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FSU will remember Reynolds at Hall of Fame ceremony, Saturday's football game
Hollywood legend Burt Reynolds’s death Thursday continues to resonate at Florida State University, where he played football in the mid-1950s.
His connections to FSU will be honored tonight and during Saturday’s game against Samford University.
“We are having a moment of silence and recognition of him at the FSU Athletics Hall of Fame Induction ceremony tonight," said Rob Wilson, associate athletic director for communications.
Reynolds also will be included in the traditional moment of silence at Saturday's game which honors all FSU student-athletes and staff who passed away since the last recognition, Wilson said.
In addition, there will be a replica “Smokey and the Bandit” Trans AM parked on Langford Green beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday.
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