Bobby Bowden funeral: Time, live stream, how to watch online for memorial service of Florida State coach

The memorial service for legendary Florida State coach Bobby Bowden might be held Saturday at 11 a.m. ET on the Donald L. Tucker Civic Middle in Tallahassee, Florida. The celebration of life might be accessible streaming on seminoles.com. 

Bowden, who died Sunday morning at age 91 after a battle with pancreatic most cancers, coached the Seminoles from 1976-2009, constructing this system right into a nationwide energy by amassing a 304-97-4 document over that span. He received 12 ACC titles and two nationwide championships throughout his tenure. FSU’s nationwide titles underneath Bowden got here in 1993 and 1999, and he seemingly would have received extra convention titles if not for the truth that FSU was unbiased for the primary 16 years of his tenure.

As CBS Sports activities’ Dennis Dodd famous in his reflection on Bowden’s life and profession, Florida State turned a nationwide program by enjoying anyone, anyplace, anytime. The Seminoles received so good at it they made it a practice of digging up a patch of sod from the sufferer’s house stadium after a win. They introduced again the horticulture and planted it exterior Doak Campbell as a practice. The “sod cemetery” exists to today, an indication of how Bowden constructed a former instructor’s faculty brick-by-brick right into a nationwide powerhouse.