Bobby… It’s Time

Another FSU- Florida game has come and gone. And it is another year that it is painfully obvious that Bobby Bowden is finished. This year was the most obvious of all. The Florida Gators owned this show in every way possible.

It started out with “The Tim Tebow Farewell Extravaganza” in pre-game. There was not a dry eye in the house when Superman came out of the tunnel. Those include his two. Never has there been this much love between a fan base and a player. Not in Gator history. Not in college football history. Tim Tebow was/is the show.

Then the game started. Tebow again steamrolled FSU. He ran over them. He threw over them. He was a man among boys. It has gotten so bad for FSU that Urban Meyer actually felt bad enough for them to kill the clock with 53 seconds left and all three timeouts in the first half. Apparently Urban felt like he already had more than enough points. No need to rub their noses in it I guess. That tells you all you need to know about how pathetic FSU has gotten.

At some point CBS did manage to show Bobby standing there on the sideline looking like he was at Bed Bath and Beyond for three hours holding his wife’s purse. Verne Lundquist gave him an oh by the way “this is also Bobby Bowden’s last game in the Swamp” to which Gary Danielsen brought up that his two national championship teams had to both win at The Swamp. That was it. In a four hour long broadcast that could very well have been Bobby Bowden’s last regular season game, that was all he got.

I don’t blame CBS. That is how much Florida dwarfs FSU. Florida could have been playing FIU yesterday and it wouldn’t have made any difference. The ‘Noles were an afterthought. If you ever wondered when Bobby should leave, wonder no more. When you’ve stayed so long you are now irrelevant, it’s time to go.