While Gruden and Mayock never confronted Bowden themselves, Bowden knows they thought his Youngstown past was still tugging at him. They failed to understand Lynn Bowden Jr., the person. The Raiders didn’t only fail to understand Lynn Bowden Jr, the player. Here, Bowden shares his side of the story. You never see an NFL team flatly give up on a third-round pick before even seeing that pick play one down of live football with hardly any explanation to the player himself. In arguably the most bizarre transaction of 2020, GM Mike Mayock and head coach Jon Gruden shipped Bowden off to the Miami Dolphins for chump change. He was drafted 80th overall in the third round of the 2020 NFL Draft and… then? The Las Vegas Raiders completely gave up on Bowden. Then, he busted out as the most electrifying player in college football at Kentucky. Then, he told himself: “I can’t be a failure.” Into his teenage years, he was heading the wrong way. He still remembers running 80 yards to the end zone with his pants falling down. Bowden was destined for greatness from the day he scored his first touchdown ever at five years old. Have a future? “Everybody’s going to be shooting for you.” And Bowden, of course, was a local legend. Wander into his neighborhood today? “You’re not going to make it out tonight,” he explains. His kids are at the forefront of his mind - always - because Bowden knows precisely where he’d be if Lynn III was not born his senior year of high school. And since it gets so insanely hot down here in South Florida, Dad went to Home Depot to buy a huge spotlight so they can shoot hoops at night. He nailed in a basketball hoop for his son.
Back there, is where he soaks in Dad life, too.
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Back there, he’s morphing himself into one of the true hidden gems in pro football. His longest streak without a drop? Sixty-five straight.
Outside, he has a brand-new Jugs machine he purchased through the Miami Dolphins himself for $4,000. Dad promises it’s nothing but a disaster of toys.Ī boy and a girl? “The best of both worlds,” he says.īowden sprawls out on his leather sectional sofa and points toward his backyard. And don’t even think about going into Lynn III’s bedroom.
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Bowden agrees that the singalong show, “Cocomelon,” has some sort of hypnotizing effect on kids but his son loves the movie “Monster House” most.
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Up on the TV screen, a Netflix home screen is queued up. A candle fills the air with a sweet, sweet coconut vanilla scent.
On the coffee table, there’s one of Lynn III’s Paw Patrol Crocs and one of Nami’s clean diapers. It’s mid-March and the family’s Christmas tree is still up because, hey, raising two kids at two totally different stages of life consumes every millisecond of every day. Clearly, Bowden is in full-fledged, survive-and-advance #DadMode. Wearing sweats and a pair of buffalo plaid slippers that read “PAPA” and “BEAR,” the 23-year-old welcomes you into his home where he and his longtime girlfriend Mikayla Finley are raising four-year-old Lynn III and three-month-old Nami. Ricochet a rat-a-tat chorus of knocks on that front door and, still, there’s nary a peep on the other side.įor a good 15 minutes, it appears nobody’s home here in this cul-de-sac. Ring the doorbell once… twice… three times… and there’s no response.
He is the principal surgeon at Queensland Bariatrics (incorporating the Wesley Obesity Clinic), which is a multidisciplinary clinic helping the morbidly obese lead healthier and happier lives.Īfter completing medical school at the University of Queensland, Dr Bowden completed fellowship training in advanced laparoscopic surgery at New York University, United States Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, United Kingdom and following this completed a two month travelling fellowship visiting world leading institutions in Upper Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary surgery throughout Europe and the United States.ĭr Bowden is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and is a member of the Australian Medical Association, Obesity Surgery Society of Australia and New Zealand, Society of American Gastrointestinal Surgeons and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.HOLLYWOOD, Fla. He is currently one of very few American Society of Bariatric Surgery trained surgeons in Australia for weight loss surgery. Dr Bowden is a General Surgeon specialising in bariatric surgery, general laparoscopic surgery, upper GI, liver and pancreatic cancer surgery.