Bowden Dynasty Trailer

we're good i'm good to go all right coach you ready to tell your story yeah thomas still has the boss throws it down field tournament [Music] that's one of the great teachings of football when i was 13 years of age i'll never forget it my knees were killing me they were like they were on fire he had rheumatic heart fever i laid flat on my back for months this is exactly the way my bed was i laid right there look out the window doctor had a stroke one time when i tried to sit up get down i mean you thought i was gonna die bobby's faith is a great source of inner strength for him i remember my mother standing right there and asked me if i believed in prayer i prayed god if you will heal me i will serve you any way you want in fact i'd love to serve you through athletics well my prayers are answered he has a faith-based approach to life i wanted my legacy to be that i served god's purpose for my life now folks if i do that i ain't got to worry in the world [Music] our house was as close as that track if you were born right there baby you gonna play football we got to experience everything from the bottom [Music] [Applause] we started here florida state was a little no-name school florida state was about to drop football right before he got there they had about said that's it there is going to be adversity but you can't quit [Music] it was a great opportunity for a guy to put his stamp on the program and make it his i really felt like trying to get florida state back on top where we want to be i think coach bowman was a visionary i think coach bowden liked challenges i think he was a guy he knew he could turn it around we have to take it step by step he's the winner he wants to win you've got to crawl before you can walk and you've got to walk before you can run we can't just start running immediately i don't think there was a lot of national attention about florida state and bobby about until he proved that he could coach and they can play with anybody we came to florida state and we were successful dion sanders to the 50s there are those 2 30 touchdowns that's when the dynasty years actually came about hey girls how y'all doing there was this element of the david versus goliath all we want to do is got that fight fight fight anytime we were the other dog in the game i like that the best lesson to learn as the underdog is you don't let the upper dog make the rules somewhere in the game there's going to be a trick play hester and greg allen confusing miami defenders so i like the the toy and the cracker jack box it's a fake florida state springs the big play what a gutsy call about bobby bow execution is what was the premium i was a big gator fan and in the 90s leads the nation in sacks we got this and i said he separates twenty-five twenty fifteen ten five touchdown msu you beat him because you were better something would happen every year [Music] people kept saying coach button could win the bedroom it was just like a teacup because we were so good and so close it didn't hurt to lose every now and then as long as you learn from it this is just a game you take it all in stride and use it to motivate to win the national championship stay together something good to happen everyone's running screaming yelling when we won it we just got the monkey off the back we want it i'm thinking we are not going to win an action the bird was lifted off his shoulder we were caught up in it i wanted it to go the next year and next year next year he does a touchdown he didn't catch it oh peter warwick had to do that we are the champions of college football wire to wire the fact that he had two i think just stamped in stone that bobby bowden is one of the all-time greatest college football coaches [Music] i try to take what's important in life and do that you know all that other stuff don't count [Applause] you

Channel: Christopher Rohlfs

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Id: 8180HIKdiUc

Length: 5min 54sec (354 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 25 2020