Bobby Bowden to coach bowl game for soldiers

[bruno]

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/11/ap-bobby-bowden-to-coach-bowl-game-for-soldiers-113010/

Bobby Bowden will coach one more game, on a road trip like none he's ever experienced, and where players on both sides of the field are on the same team.

The former Florida State coach will be among a group of football greats traveling to an undisclosed American military installation in the Persian Gulf next month for a flag football game with soldiers, called the Connect to Home Bowl.

Bobby Bowden asked to go this year after following last season's inaugural event closely, and event organizers happily accepted.

"It's very exciting ... because there couldn't be a better cause," the 81-year-old Bowden told the Associated Press. "My belief in our military and our men that are over there, what they're going through, that's what means as much as anything to me.".....

 

[rkrosnar]

Bobby Bowden to coach....

Coach Bowden is well suited for this, he is very read up on military history. It would be an honor, to be associated with such an individual.

RGK

 

[bruno]

It's always cool to see these visits. I have a friend who has been in love with Ann Margaret since 1966 when he saw her come to Vietnam on a USO trip. I kind of doubt that Bobby Bowden will inspire those kind of feelings - (I certainly hope not anyway) but the troops who see him doing this will definitely appreciate it. Good for Coach Bowden- he's a good man for taking the time to do this.