From time to time West Virginia coach Bill Stewart likes to spring little surprises on his football team. Well, Stewart gave his team a big surprise before they took the field for Tuesday’s practice when he asked legendary Hall of Fame coach Bobby Bowden to say a few words to his players and coaches.

Bowden, in town today for a function with his wife Ann, talked about his 57-year coaching career that included a 10-year stop at West Virginia University as both an assistant coach for Jim Carlen and his six-year head coaching tenure that ended in 1975.

“When the Florida State job came open in 1976 they called and asked me if I wanted to be their football coach. My wife and I had no desire to go back down there at the time,” he said. “I remember, we didn’t decide until the last second because at West Virginia we were going to bowl games and having winning seasons and Florida State was 3-8 and 1-10 and zero and 11. But we were both from that part of the country and our mothers were still living and we felt like we could spend the last part of their lives with them, so we decided to go back down there.”

Full Article at: MSN