On news of Bobby Bowden’s death on Sunday, those that remembered him best - former players and, perhaps, one of his biggest rivals - took to social media to pay respect to the former Florida State coach.
Bobby Bowden, 91, announced on July 21 he had a terminal illness that Terry Bowden later said was pancreatic cancer.
Bowden and the Seminoles were the target of verbal jabs from former Florida coach Steve Spurrier for years. On Sunday, he led a long social media line of people remebering the Birmingham native.
“Bobby Bowden was one of the all time greatest coaches in the history of college football,” Spurrier tweeted. “He’s the second winningest coach of all time behind Joe Paterno. We had some good battles during my 12 years at Florida. He won most of them and we won a few.
“I enjoyed our relationship after coaching as we served for Rising Stars which helps young men and women from difficult backgrounds go to college and be successful.”
Bowden’s teams were 8-5-1 against Spurrier, but the games always seemed to provide drama.
The Gators squandered a 28-point fourth quarter lead in 1994 at Tallahassee’s Doak Campbell Stadium as FSU tied the record for the largest fourth-quarter comeback, knotting the game 31-31.
The “Choke at Doak” was a 1994 meeting between the two teams in which Bowden’s Seminoles rallied from 28 points in the fourth quarter to tie the game, costing the Gators a national title shot.
The Gators returned the favor, however, with a 52-20 victory during the 1997 Sugar Bowl to earn Florida its first national title.
And, of course, a number of players that competed in so many of those rivalry games took to Twitter to pay respects to Bowden, too.
Mark Heim is a sports reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim.
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