{"id":176059,"date":"2026-03-03T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176059\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:00:11","slug":"fsu-football-legend-teases-return-to-football-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176059\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU Football Legend Teases Return to Football Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida State head coach Mike Norvell and new general manager John Garrett were not lying when they said that they&#8217;d be leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/fsu\/florida-state-seminoles-college-football\/fsu-general-manager-ready-bring-program-back-prominence-john-garrett-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">no stone unturned<\/a> in their quest to rebuild the Seminoles into a championship-caliber program. As it turns out, the next answer in the middle of the defense might be waiting under a Shade Tree.<\/p>\n<p>Legendary former Florida State linebacker Marvin \u201cShade Tree\u201d Jones became a part of Seminole lore in the early 1990s. The Miami native won the Butkus and Lombardi Awards, earned All-American honors, and even finished fourth in Heisman voting in 1992. Now, it appears the 53-year-old still has one more season left in him.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarvin Jones Teases Return to College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida State head coach Mike Norvell and new general manager John Garrett were not lying when they said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-176059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}