The Inquirer alumnus has written 16 books, including several bestsellers. In the early 1990s, though, he broke from normal football beat coverage to tell the stories of a unique team.
One in an occasional series. The Eagles will wear throwback kelly green uniforms twice this season, starting with Sunday’s game against the Dolphins. These are some essential stories from the Birds’ kelly green era.
Curious after going on safari and learning that the black rhinoceros was in danger of extinction, Inquirer executive editor Gene Roberts told Bowden, now the paper’s lead science writer, to travel wherever and spend whatever was required to investigate the poaching and extermination of “a creature,” Bowden wrote, “that once walked with the dinosaurs.
“Although the other Eagles writers never said anything to me directly, I imagine they saw me as somebody who hadn’t earned the job in the way they had — smaller papers, covering sports,” Bowden said. “I was somebody who hadn’t paid his dues.”OK, cards-on-the-table time: Bowden and I have been friendly acquaintances for a few years.
For his recurring column, “Inside the Game,” Bowden would focus on a particular player each week, then sit down with that player the day after a game so he could understand, and help readers understand, exactly what was happening on the field — a revelation, given that game film wasn’t readily available. The athletes, in turn, let their guard down around him.
“The people I interview are the experts,” he said. “They’re professionals. They know their job better than I ever could. So if I wanted to understand their world, I needed to listen to them.”
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