Called to Coach: Reflections on Life, Faith, and Football
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Coach Bobby Bowden is an icon of college football who ran his legendary, top-ranking program with a trademark southern charm. With his recent retirement, Bowden is ready to give fans and readers the behind-the-scenes story of his 55-year career and the path that helped him become one of college football's most successful coaches and patriarch of the sport's most famous coaching family. In this book, Bowden will reveal never-before-published details of the moments and events that have defined his life, including: * The tragic death of his grandson and son-in-law in a 2004 automobile accident.* The details of his retirement as FSU's coach at the end of the 2009 season.
Foreword Tony Dungy viiForeword Joe Paterno xChapter 1 Holding the Rope 1Chapter 2 I Will Serve You 11Chapter 3 Mother Hen 29Chapter 4 Finding Direction 41Chapter 5 Staying the Course 57Chapter 6 Tested 77Chapter 7 Thin Ice 91Chapter 8 Proving Ground 103Chapter 9 No Place Like Home 119Chapter 10 Where Is Pablo? 139Chapter 11 Wide Right 151Chapter 12 Unseen Eyes 169Chapter 13 Second Chances 195Chapter 14 Transfusion 207Chapter 15 Wire to Wire 219Chapter 16 Fervent Prayers 243Chapter 17 The Final Season 255Acknowledgments 271
