TALLAHASSEE (SP) -- Bobby Bowden's job security seemed to take another hit today when it was discovered that Florida State University has purchased a cemetery plot for its 79-year-old coach.
"Coach Bowden is the picture of health and we hope he is the coach of Florida State for, well, years to come," said university president T. K. Wetherall. "But, you know, things happen. But we would never, um, kill him to get him out of here. That's not the Seminole way."
The plot in question is located in a sports-themed cemetery and crematorium called "The Bitter End Zone." Sources say a backhoe is on stand by at the facility.
Bowden has been under intense scrutiny since the chair of FSU's board of trustees called for him to step down after the team's 2-3 start.
Talk of Bowden's exit has been going on for sometime in Tallahassee. If the writing was not on the wall, it was certainly on the field. The university named its football field for the coach a few years ago. Then FSU named Jimbo Fisher its "head coach in waiting."
This summer, the university moved the head coach parking spot to the middle of a student parking several blocks -- and several busy intersections -- from the football offices.
In August, a hot and humid month in Tallahassee, the university announced a new "green initiative" to cut energy costs by turning off the air conditioning in Bowden's office.
A few weeks later, the coaches dining room began serving food items high in fat sodium.
Sources tell Sporting Press that the university also discussed after-life alternatives for Bowden with Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the worldwide leader in cryonics. Its lab is said to house corpses, including the remains of baseball great Ted Williams. Sources nixed this idea as a re-animated Bowden would likely demand his job back in the future.
Is this the day that the curse on Sooner football will end? Will Bradford lead the Sooners to the BCS championship by running the table and getting a little help with some key losses by the current contenders?
Hoping for the above is kind of like betting your money on the bob-tail nag.
Posted by: Judgement Day For the Sooners? | October 10, 2009 at 05:00 AM
Texas is doomed as the bob-tailed nag continues to extricate itself from the barnyard mire.
Posted by: Longhorns Doomed | October 12, 2009 at 06:46 AM