With the 50th anniversary of the horrific plane crash that killed nearly the entire Marshall football team coming up on Saturday, I’m reminded of some of the sad, surreal stories I heard when the Sentinel sent me to Huntington, W.Va., to do a story on the 30-year anniversary of the tragedy.
Two of the most poignant accounts came from a couple of coaches with Florida State connections — Bobby Bowden and Red Dawson — who might have died 50 years ago if fate had not intervened.
Bowden could have easily been the head coach of that Marshall football team when it went down in a Southern Airways DC-9 on Nov.