Spending time with FSU and Marshall's Red Dawson

And now a respite from the politics of vehicle crashes, school-budget cuts and other bad stuff.

I get to see an old friend tonight and spend some time talking about two of the universities I care most about: Florida State and Marshall.

Red Dawson, a Hall of Fame FSU receiver in the 1960s who gained new fame with the film “We Are Marshall,” will be at the Silver Slipper with Marshall head football coach Mark Snyder and others for a public reception.

Red taught me to be a passionate FSU football fan well before I stepped foot in Tallahassee or had a daughter enroll at the university.

I helped talk Red out of putting a woman out of his house for showing up to his national championship game watching party wearing an orange sweat shirt in 1998, the year Tennessee nipped the Seminoles in the Fiesta Bowl 23-16.

The reception is 6 to 8 p.m. at the Silver Slipper. No doubt, much of the conversation will be about two local high school players who committed to Marshall: Florida’s high school player of the year, quarterback A.J. Graham of Godby High School, and corner back Monterius Lovette of Rickards High School.

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