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Legendary assistant Mickey Andrews: ‘Bear Bryant taught me how to win; Bobby Bowden taught me how to care’ | Commentary

And, yet, at his public funeral service over the weekend, there was barely any mention of football itself. More than 300 of Bowden’s former players along with dozens of former assistant coaches showed up and paid tribute to Bowden at the “Celebration of Life” memorial service in Tallahassee — and, remarkably, they talked not of all the championships he won, but of all the lives he touched.

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Legendary FSU coach Bobby Bowden, through the years in pictures.

To me, that is the miracle of Robert Cleckler “Bobby” Bowden. He is the second-winningest coach in major college history, yet we mostly remember him not for how he coached football but for how he treated people.