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One day, Bobby Bowden will be in heaven. We hope heaven has to wait a very long time to get him on the depth chart, but one day Bobby will be there.
When he is, he'll turn to his buddy, his maker, and smile.
"Dadgum Miami."
And God will nod.
This one did not sail wide right.
This one did not sail wide left.
This one sailed into Bobby Bowden's sunset.
There was no time left on the clock and hardly any time left in Monday night at Doak Campbell Stadium.
But never too late for Miami, even from the grave, to haunt Bobby.
So the football and fates sailed into the arms of an unfortunate Florida State sophomore receiver named Jarmon Fortson, who hails from -- we kid you not -- an Alabama town named Hurtsboro.
Bobby ought to...
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