DeSantis makes Bobby Bowden Tallahassee International Airport a reality
The name of the man who turned a modest Southern football program into a national powerhouse will now be stamped onto Tallahassee’s front door.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on April 14 signed legislation (SB 628) that includes an honorary naming of the Tallahassee International Airport after the late Florida State Seminoles coach Bobby Bowden, who died in August 2021 at the age of 91.
The bill signing took place just down the road from the airport at a staging area for the Capital Circle road project. DeSantis and his young son Mason unveiled one of the signs that will go up on the roadway around the airport, honoring the coach whose greatest victories, his supporters say, were the lives he quietly changed.
The garnet and gold "Bobby Bowden Tallahassee International Airport" signs feature Bowden's signature under his trademark FSU hat, the Seminoles logo, and note he's a "recipient of the Governor's Medal of Freedom."
The governor highlighted Bowden’s unprecedented run of success from 1987 to 2000, saying his “teams finished in the top five of the final national rankings for 14 consecutive seasons. That’s an unprecedented run of sustained success, and particularly in this era may never be matched.”
But he added that Bowden “served not just as an X’s and O’s (coach) and not just as somebody responsible for putting a good football team together, but really as somebody that was looking out for these athletes and helping them in that transformation from being kids … to when they move on, being men who are capable of making a difference in this world and in their communities.”
Official name “Bobby Bowden Tallahassee International Airport”
No code change (TLH)
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