So cool!! Gopher legend Bobby Bell graduates from the U this week! Class of 2015!

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per Marcus:

Bobby Bell is an NCAA champion. A Super Bowl champion. A member of the college and pro football halls of fame.

And now, 52 years later, he is a college graduate.

The former Gophers football All-American and Kansas City Chiefs legend will be listed among the University of Minnesota's Class of 2015 this week. He plans to officially walk with his young classmates to pick up his degree in May.

http://www.twincities.com/sports/ci_27132401/ex-gophers-star-bobby-bell-college-grad-at

Go Gophers!!
 

BleedGopher said:
per Marcus:

Bobby Bell is an NCAA champion. A Super Bowl champion. A member of the college and pro football halls of fame.

And now, 52 years later, he is a college graduate.

The former Gophers football All-American and Kansas City Chiefs legend will be listed among the University of Minnesota's Class of 2015 this week. He plans to officially walk with his young classmates to pick up his degree in May.

http://www.twincities.com/sports/ci_27132401/ex-gophers-star-bobby-bell-college-grad-at

Go Gophers!!
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I typically wouldn't share a Facebook Status, but this is a very public one. What a great accomplishment
Bobby Bell Status.JPG.
 




That's what I'm talking about. Great stuff!
 

From the twin cities.com article:

"Bell left his hometown of Shelby, N.C., to go to college at Minnesota in 1959 because schools in the South weren't integrated.

His father, Pink, was a cotton mill driver and not well-educated. Neither was his mother. They pushed him to accomplish much, much more.

"Boy, you can do it," Bell remembers his father saying. "Anything is possible.

Drawing strength from that all these years later, the 74-year-old Bell asked the U to help him finish his college education. He once carried the hopes of his family, friends -- and people of Shelby who celebrated him once he became a football star.

He didn't want to let them down.

"Once I got my feet wet, I said this is like playing in the Super Bowl," Bell said. "I'm going all the way. I'm going to win this thing. I'm going to do my best job. Whatever it takes, I'm going to do it."

Parks and recreation. That was his major. At the time, people dismissed it as an easier route. But it meant a lot to Bell.

Growing up, when a new park was finally built in his neighborhood in Shelby, it changed everything for him...

 




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