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Bush will wear loss on chest
By STEVE BOUSQUET, Times Staff Writer
© St. Petersburg Times
published January 6, 2003
MIAMI -- Call him Buckeye Bush.
Gov. Jeb Bush said Sunday that he'll wear an Ohio State jersey at next month's meeting of the nation's governors to settle a bet with his Ohio counterpart, Bob Taft, on the Fiesta Bowl. OSU upset the previously top-ranked University of Miami, 31-24, in double overtime, to clinch the national title.
"Yeah, I'm going to wear the shirt," Bush said.
Bush was so sure Miami was going to win that he had asked UM President Donna Shalala to design a special shirt for Taft to wear at a February conference of the National Governors' Association.
Like most UM fans, Bush panned a referee's late pass interference call against Miami that sent the game into OT. "It was a bad call, but that's the way life works," Bush said, "and Ohio State played a heck of a game."
Bush joked that a former aide, Justin Sayfie, sent an e-mail referring to the referee's controversial call as "another example of judicial activism."
"But we don't have the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to correct it," Bush said.
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