Presented without embellishment, here are our five favorite quotes selected from the biography of John Junker, the recently-deposed Fiesta Bowl CEO. As of this moment, the profile still exists on the bowl’s website, along with a sinisterly clownish and sincerely terrifying official photo, but something tells us that won’t last too long. Get those screencaps while they’re hot, and let’s savor a little inadvertently-presaged doom together:
John Junker’s Soon-To-Be-Disappeared Fiesta Bowl Bio: In Memoriam
John Junker has played a major role and witnessed the growth of the non-profit and community-based Fiesta Bowl from an 11-event festival in 1971 to its current position as one of the nation’s top collegiate football bowl games and largest civic celebrations.
He was named the seventh most powerful person in college football by Sports Illustrated in 2003
His leadership and active participation in maintaining the health of college football continues to be acknowledged and praised by community leaders, conference commissioners and university presidents nationwide.
He also served as [...] press center director for the Pastoral visit of Pope John Paul II to Phoenix in 1986.
A native of Akron, Ohio
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