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Overview

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.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781439196458
  • Publisher: Howard Books
  • Publication date: 8/9/2011
  • Edition description: Simon & Schuster
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 168,924
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Bobby Bowden

Bobby Bowden is known as much for his affable charm as he is for his championship teams. Having coached young men in seven decades, he is the second-winningest coach in major college football history. Bowden guided Florida State University to more than three hundred victories, two national championships, twelve Atlantic Coast Conference titles, finishing in the top five in the country in fourteen straight seasons, and he also led the Seminoles to Bowl Games in twenty-eight consecutive seasons during his thirty-four-year tenure. The patriarch of college football’s most famous coaching family, Bowden remains heavily involved in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, annually awarding The National Bobby Bowden Award to a student-athlete for achievement on and off the field, including his conduct as a faith model in the community. Bowden was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006. He and his wife of sixty-one years, Ann, live in Tallahassee, Florida.

Mark Schlabach is a national college football columnist for ESPN.com and is a regular guest on television programs on the ESPN platform. A former staff writer for the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Washington Post, Schlabach has covered college football for nearly two decades. A 1996 graduate of the University of Georgia, Schlabach and his wife, Heather, live with their three children in Madison, Georgia.

Tony Dungy and his wife Lauren Dungy are active members of a number of family, faith, and community-based organizations including All Pro Dad, iMom, Fellowship of Chrstian Athletes, Mentors for Life, Family First, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and the Boys and Girls Club of America. Tony is a former NFL player and retired head coach of the 2006 Superbowl Champions, the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League.

Table of Contents

Foreword Tony Dungy vii

Foreword Joe Paterno x

Chapter 1 Holding the Rope 1

Chapter 2 I Will Serve You 11

Chapter 3 Mother Hen 29

Chapter 4 Finding Direction 41

Chapter 5 Staying the Course 57

Chapter 6 Tested 77

Chapter 7 Thin Ice 91

Chapter 8 Proving Ground 103

Chapter 9 No Place Like Home 119

Chapter 10 Where Is Pablo? 139

Chapter 11 Wide Right 151

Chapter 12 Unseen Eyes 169

Chapter 13 Second Chances 195

Chapter 14 Transfusion 207

Chapter 15 Wire to Wire 219

Chapter 16 Fervent Prayers 243

Chapter 17 The Final Season 255

Acknowledgments 271

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  • Posted August 30, 2010

    Great book about an American legend

    I'm not a big football fan, but Bobby Bowden's book is one of the most inspirational stories I've ever read. He really followed God's path for his life and never wavered in his belief in faith through many trials and tribulations. "Called To Coach" is much, much more than a book about a football book. It is a book about the story of a great man, leader and mentor to thousands of young men over the last half-century. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about raising our children and teaching them to do things the right way.

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  • Posted January 17, 2012

    A Great Story of a Christian in Action

    I loved the story of how Coach Bowden took his Christian Faith into the locker room and onto the field, and all phases of his life. His story of coaching college football was exciting to read, I couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 16, 2011

    A must buy

    If you are a Florida State fan or just a college football fan, you need to purchase this book. Bobby Bowden is a great man and im glad to have read his story.

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  • Posted October 6, 2010

    A must read about a great coach for any college football fan....

    Called to coach is a great book about the legend Bobby Bowden. He recalls his legendary career in honest straightforward style.He is a man of true faith who always tried to guide his players in the right life path.He recounts personal tragedys in the same honest style as he does his success in life.In regard to his leaving FSU he relates his position and feelings with candor and honesty.If you expect him to rip the school the athletic department or the administration,you will be disappointed.This in my opinion is as it should be.If you want a tell all book dont look here. If you want an honest story of a lengendary man of faith and class,i have never read a better one.

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