{"id":232835,"date":"2026-04-15T15:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232835\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:19:11","slug":"tallahassee-airport-renamed-after-legendary-coach-bobby-bowden-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232835\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee airport renamed after legendary coach Bobby Bowden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/635a769a342080817c6e1259b322ed11.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tallahassee airport renamed after legendary coach Bobby Bowden<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation on Tuesday to officially rename the airport in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tallahassee International Airport will now be known as the Bobby Bowden Tallahassee International Airport, honoring the late coach of the Florida State Seminoles football team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The renaming pays tribute to Bowden, who coached the Seminoles from 1976 until 2009 and passed away in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This action follows a similar move last month by Gov. DeSantis, who signed a bill to rename the Palm Beach airport to the President Donald J. Trump International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tallahassee airport renamed after legendary coach Bobby Bowden Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation on Tuesday to officially rename&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[57241,3731,412,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-232835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-bobby-bowden","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-ron-desantis","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232835","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=232835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}