# RIP Bobby Bowden **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** celebrity-death, football-nfl\ **Created:** [August 8, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bobby-bowden/948246 "2021-08-08T19:12:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bobby-bowden/948246/1 "2021-08-08T19:12:01Z")
He’s been out of the game for a while and his career ended on a down note, but he was an outstanding guy. The only negative I ever heard about him personally was that he was a lousy tipper, but that was probably a product of the age he grew up in. The article also doesn’t mention that he lost most of his money in a ponzi-scheme run by his former son-in-law, so he never really got to retire, but kept doing speaking engagements until very recently. > **['A Hall of Fame legacy': Remembering the one-of-a-kind life and career of...](https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/31986159/remembering-one-kind-life-career-florida-state-legend-bobby-bowden)** > > Bobby Bowden died on Sunday at age 91. There will never be another coach quite like the Florida State legend, who built the Seminoles into an unlikely national power. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bobby-bowden/948246/2 "2021-08-08T19:23:41Z")
As an FSU alum, I was also disappointed in his hard Trumpism which he trumpeted (pun intended) loudly. But, I accept that many people are complex and aren’t total gods or total shitbags. He definitely put FSU football on the map and FSU was definitely a great place for college when I was a student ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bobby-bowden/948246/3 "2021-08-08T19:32:05Z")
He was probably a good man and definitely a great coach. But my opinion of him is tainted by one memory: Sebastian Janikowski got himself arrested the night before a bowl game, and a reporter asked Bowden if he’d be suspended. Bowden just laughed at the ridiculousness of the idea. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bobby-bowden/948246/4 "2021-08-08T22:13:09Z")
I liked Bowden, and it’s coming from an LSU guy whose team got their asses handed to them so much that we ended up taking them off our schedule, lol. I’ve read/heard we had a chance to get Bowden (or was it Spurrier?). Don’t know how true that is, but the guy could coach. He generally ran a clean program. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bobby-bowden/948246/5 "2021-08-08T23:33:38Z")
Looks like there was also some homophobia with Bowden > **[Tallahassee Could Decide To Ban Conversion Therapy Wednesday](https://news.wfsu.org/wfsu-local-news/2019-12-03/tallahassee-could-decide-to-ban-conversion-therapy-wednesday)** > > Tallahassee’s City Commission will hear a presentation on conversion therapy during its December 4th meeting. The move comes as state lawmakers prepare to… > **[Conference in Tallahassee pointing to 'LGBTQ mentality' in schools draws...](https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2019/11/11/parent-power-2020-points-ravages-lgbtq-mentality-florida-schools-tallahassee-conference/2561684001/)** > > A conference sponsored by the Freedom Speaks Coalition to "protect our kids" from the "LGBTQ ideology" is drawing criticism. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bobby-bowden/948246/6 "2021-08-09T00:02:26Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > He was probably a good man and definitely a great coach. But my opinion of him is tainted by one memory: Sebastian Janikowski got himself arrested the night before a bowl game, and a reporter asked Bowden if he’d be suspended. Bowden just laughed at the ridiculousness of the idea. Not quite. Janikowski broke curfew before the bowl game, but was not arrested. Sugar Bowl in '99. He _was_ arrested for a bar fight (twice) and the infamous “bribe” scandal, but none of those was around a bowl game. > [@dalej42](#): > > Looks like there was also some homophobia with Bowden I missed that when it happened. Damn, that really does disappoint me. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bobby-bowden/948246/7 "2021-08-11T14:22:09Z")
RIP Coach Bowden. Thanks for what you did for the Thundering Herd.