The Bowden Dynasty
A Story of Faith, Family & Football An Insider's AccountBy Charlie Barnes, Bobby Bowden
Length14h 17m
About this audiobook
From 1987 to 2000 the Florida State Seminoles won the hearts of America and thrilled their fans with fourteen consecutive ten-win, top-five seasons. In seven of those seasons they lost only one game. More often than not, the players' quest for a perfect season came down to one play where mere inches or seconds determined the outcome.
This special collection of essays spotlights the extraordinary strength of Coach Bobby Bowden's leadership and character, providing entertaining insight into the national landscape surrounding Florida State football in the fourteen-year dynasty era.
Author Charlie Barnes served as executive director and senior vice president of Seminole Boosters until his retirement in 2012. He and Coach Bowden traveled together on the annual Seminole Booster banquet-and-golf circuit (The Bobby Bowden Tour) for more than thirty years. Charlie Barnes was also the voice of the boosters, and his articles appeared in the
Report to Boosters,
Unconquered Magazine, the
Florida State Times, the
Tallahassee Democrat, and more.
Coach Bobby Bowden and his son Steve also teamed together to provide Bobby's insights on each of the fourteen years of the dynasty for this book, which is a companion to the feature documentary film
The Bowden Dynasty.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length14 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 15, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
4432 The Emergence of the Dynasty
2Introduction
4533 Life at the Top of the Pyramid
3Better Than the Most Wonderful Time
4634 Clemson’s Lost Generation: The Seminoles Prosper
4A Lasting Legacy
4735 Fifth Quarter in the French Quarter: Gators Consider Dropping the Seminoles
51987 Season
4836 For Your Amusement: A Reprise of the 1994 College Football Season
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61 In the Beginning
491995 Season
72 Bernie and the Bandit
5037 Life after Bowden: FSU vs. the ACC
83 Miami, Auburn, and Florida
5138 Seminoles vs. Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl
94 Magic in the Desert
5239 The Grand Parade: Reprise of the 1995 College Football Season
101988 Season
531996 Season
115 Summer Dreams and Fantasies
5440 The Best Fans
126 Miami and the Rap Video
5541 Officiating Becomes an Issue
137 Clemson and the Puntrooskie
5642 Did Steve Make a Deal with the Devil?
148 South Carolina, Florida, and Auburn
5743 The Psychology of Champions
151989 Season
581997 Season
169 A Dreadful Beginning
5944 FSU vs. Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl
1710 The Fooler from Paskagooler and Other Stories
6045 Can Florida State Maintain Success Indefinitely?
1811 The Stretch Run
611998 Season
191990 Season
6246 Dan Kendra and the Emergence of Chris Weinke
2012 The Decision: Should FSU Join a Conference?
6347 Big Brawl, Big Win
2113 “You’ll Pay, FSU! You’ll Pay!”
6448 There’s a Special Joy in Beating Tennessee: Twists and Turns on the Road to Phoenix
2214 We Are What We Are
6549 Seminoles vs. Volunteers in the Fiesta Bowl
2315 It’s Not 1966 Anymore
6650 Bowl Business in the Era of the Dynasty
2416 Pat Dye Drops the Seminoles
671999 Season
251991 Season
6851 Auburn Cancels Season Opener vs. the Seminoles
2617 Seminoles and the Conference Mentality
6952 The 1999 Bobby Bowden Tour
2718 On Fan Behavior: Who Do We Want to Be?
7053 What Sort of Man Would Replace Bobby Bowden?
2819 In Praise of Unreasonable Fans
7154 The Prophet
2920 False Controversy at the Cotton Bowl
7255 Florida State to Leave the ACC?
301992 Season
7356 The Peter Warrick Episode
3121 Sportsmanship: Shake Hands with a Blue Devil
7457 After Florida and before the Sugar Bowl
3222 Real Seminole Spirit
7558 Sugar Bowl and the Seminoles’ Casino Cavalry
331993 Season
7659 The Cool School
3423 Attack on the Seminole Name
772000 Season
3524 University Center Symbolizes the Seminoles’ Rise
7860 Imagining Coach Bowden’s Home Visit with a Recruit
3625 “We’re Going to Assault This University!”
7961 The Exuberant 2000 Bobby Bowden Spring Tour
3726 Building on Tradition: The Loss of Bill Peterson and Bill McGrotha
8062 The Seventy-Million-Dollar Dynasty Campaign
3827 “We Would Be Lesser Men …”
8163 Bobby Bowden Is Old-School Tough
3928 Seminole Ambush in the Swamp, the Trap at Notre Dame, and the Speech No Cornhusker Gave
8264 It’s All about the Jimmys and the Joes
4029 Charlie Ward: The X-Factor
8365 Seminoles vs. Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl
411994 Season
84Epilogue
4230 Foot Locker and the Media Storm
85Acknowledgments
4331 Bobby Bowden and Sandy D’Alemberte
86About the Authors
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