Longtime Florida State booster David Mobley, an accountant in Atlanta, remembers telling Bobby Bowden that he had picked up one of the legendary coach's former players, Tom Pridemore, as a client.
"Tommy Pridemore's momma made the best rabbit and biscuits I've ever had," Bowden told Mobley.
Pridemore, now 65, had played safety for Bowden at West Virginia nearly 30 years earlier.
Every time Bowden bumped into Demetro Stephens, long after the former Seminoles linebacker had left school, the coach asked him the same question: "Is your grandfather still making that apple pie?