{"id":2403,"date":"2009-12-08T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2009-12-06T01:06:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T06:06:52","slug":"bobby-bowden-as-green-lantern-parallax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/08\/bobby-bowden-as-green-lantern-parallax\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Bowden as Green Lantern Parallax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last week I posted a picture of <a title=\"Shag as Parallax\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2009\/11\/30\/irredeemable-lantern\/\">myself gone Parallax-style with the <em>Blackest Night<\/em> power rings<\/a>.\u00a0 Turns out <a title=\"Bobby Bowden\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bobby_Bowden\">Bobby Bowden<\/a>, retiring head football coach of the Florida State Seminoles, had to go and one-up me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Bobby Bowden as Green Lantern Parallax\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/bobbybowden_gl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My thanks to Serv and the folks over at <a title=\"Bobby Bowden as Green Lantern\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/theuniquegeek\/browse_thread\/thread\/f98bafbbb1c31ead#\">THE UNIQUE GEEK listserv<\/a> for starting this topic.\u00a0 In fact, the gang has been coming up with oaths for Parallax Bobby (a.k.a. The Garnet Lantern) to recite when charging his rings:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From Ravenface:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\">Despite The Swamp and three Wide Rights<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll set the flaming spear alight!<br \/>\nLet those who vote in polls with spite&#8230;<br \/>\nCount my dadgum conference titles!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m Bobby fuckin&#8217; Bowden<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From Terry:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\">Through hurricane, through dirty Hogtown<br \/>\nFor 33 seasons, I&#8217;ve been around<br \/>\nTo those who would deface my crown,<br \/>\nSt. Bobby&#8217;s barbarians will take you down&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\">Dadgummit!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here&#8217;s mine:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Brightest sun or stadium light,<br \/>\nThose other teams have run in fright.<br \/>\nThe Seminoles are gonna fight,<br \/>\nTo uphold his honor\u2026 Bobby&#8217;s might!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here is the <em>Emerald Twilight<\/em> Hal Jordan image with all the rings for reference again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Hal Jordan as Parallax\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/gl49.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"613\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2403\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/08\/bobby-bowden-as-green-lantern-parallax\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to 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