Brian Bosworth was an amazing college LB. He possessed DB speed, great football instincts, and the desire to win at all cost. Unfortunately, his best football was left in Oklahoma.
Bo Had nothing to do with that Clown retiring. He was Jack Roided Oklahoma U College Hype Bullshit. Seattle was the $4 million dollar super sucker in 1988. That Bo Jackson highlight was one play of his lousy 86 play- 3 year career in the NFL - Pros. Google Real LB Junior Seau for a 19 year pro career for a real linebacker. Bozworth was a straight up 1988 Roid Clown JOKE. Feel free to waste almost 5 minutes of life watching this.
Bosworth was the best high school player in the nation. nothing changed, he was the best in college also. Your either a fool or just a young dumb kid that knows nothing about sports. Bosworth era (1980's) roids were an epidemic, they got tougher on testing, now they have HGH. I could name a hall of fame team that have all taken steroids at one time or the other. Bo Jackson same thing, easily injured = Steroids
@@Freaknizle1 Yeah, keep on pretending like everyone from Lawrence Taylor to Ray Lewis wasn't juicing. Oh wait, they're black, not allowed to say that! lol
I was lucky enough to be attending OU when he was there... Those were great times... Our football was awesome... The Boz was lightning quick and hit hard... He was the anchor of a solid Defense...
I'm not sure how much the steroids helped, but this man had the snap count down, impressive how he got running starts and just blew past his would-be blockers.
***** Oh shut up. Amazes me that people like you are naive enough to actually believe such nonsense. Boz was an amazing college player, but anyone who buys his story about not being on roids during the season is laughably naive (and, btw, he tested positive late in the 86 season, not "before"). Dude was entirely roided out, just like other college freaks from that era like Mandarich and Emtman.
Michael V Watch at 0:52 he starts running before the snap perfectly, and they knew it was a blitz, no one on the O-line blocked him because the rb was supposed to pick him up after the play action, but he was too fast so the rb tried a chip and boz jumped right over him. Very impressive stuff.
In his autobiography he says he'd drink a special shake that he didn't know the contents of before every game. He says he didn't know what was in it but it made him play better. He was on roids.
According a report published Wednesday on Bleacher Report, current NFL players project that between 10 and 40 percent of the league is using human growth hormone, or HGH, a banned substance that increases strength, decreases body fat and facilitates quicker healing from injury. The 1980's they didnt even test much. Bo did steroids. Loses his hip playing baseball?? Please
According a report published Wednesday on Bleacher Report, current NFL players project that between 10 and 40 percent of the league is using human growth hormone, or HGH, a banned substance that increases strength, decreases body fat and facilitates quicker healing from injury. Seattle doctors said Bosworth at 22 had a 63 year olds shoulder.
+Keith L. I think those tackles were forbidden to prevent various legs injuries (ACL and MCL)... when the player being tackled often fall backward when their legs got trapped under their body weight.
Super speed + beast strength + field smarts + philosophical killer attitude = 2xButkus winner, National Championship and Greatest Linebacker in NCAA history!
You have to give credit where credit is due. The Boz wouldn’t have made it thru the O-line like that without the help of #92 NG Tony Cassias. He pulled the center left or right to make the hole for The Boz to run thru to get in the backfield. So no matter what it looks like, it’s a team effort.
I played NG for 13 years. I’m paying for it today but I patterned my play after him. That’s when I realized what he was doing. He was a badass in my book. Great guy though. I learned a lot just watching his films. He was a monster.
Windrunner Six Is English your second language? I saw a clip of 2 guys high fiving and I commented about it. Then you come with some nonsensical drivel that has nothing to do with my comment. ffs
After a few of these tackles, he said something (probably pretty intimidating) to the guy on the ground. Wouldn't be allowed today because it might hurt someone's feelings.
3:37 watch closely. he levels two guys at once...wow. this guy was a beast. steroids or not players in those days had so much more charisma and ferocity. don't see it as often now.
Nice catch. And I agree, there's something lost now. Reality is too carefully managed, too cynical, and too safe. A freer and more dangerous world fosters more exciting characters like this, and to me that tradeoff seems mostly worthwhile. It's not an exaggeration to say that people were more alive in those times. They also danced, and sang, and laughed a whole lot more.
I met Brian in a sushi restaurant in Miami with his agent 1997. Very friendly, affable, likeable guy. We talked about his book I owned The Boz. He was filming a show called Lawless. Great guy.
Oklahoma and Bosworth haters!!!!!!!!!! He was a monster. You know your a beast when 1 play about Bo keeps coming up over and over. OOOOOOOOOOOh one play any others ?
I remember how damn good he was at anticipating the snap on a blitz and getting to the quarterback almost before the center put the ball in the quarterback's hands! LOL I tried to emulate that when I played in high school and got quite a few off sides calls. He also had phenomenal pursuit and closing speed! I still remember him at his press conference when he turned pro, with coach Switzer sitting next to him rolling his eyes, as Bosworth told the media how great he was. What a character! If I'm not mistaken, I think ESPN did a 30 for 30 on him that I'd like to see.
When a guy flattens the offensive lineman, the fullback and gets the tackle all in the same motion, you know there is something a little special in his tank.
One of the top college lb ever! Never saw anyone get yardage after contact. Amazing linebacker! A great shame he gets knocked for the Bo thing, that was a joke. Bosworth tackled him 1 on 1 and Momentum took them into end zone and Jackson might have hit the turf first. If that was the last play of the super bowl and Boz made that tackle at midfield, it would go down in legend. If he only didn’t hype himself too much.
Bosworth was great in college. His shoulders couldn't hold out so his NFL career didn't last too long. So many people only seem to remember that play against Bo Jackson.
Nobody could stop Bo once he had speed, Bosworth would have been a good NFL PLayer had his shoulders not giving out. I think when he showed up to Seattle his shoulders were already problematic. I wonder how his shoulders are today?
I loved watching him play oh, he was a one-man Wrecking Crew and had the passion that Baker Mayfield has when he plays. Ihave to mention General Patton and Jimi Hendrix with Boz and Mayfield and no doubt why you ask understandably so it's because they all had such passion and love for what they did and it's just my sometimes humble opinion that the reason they were so good at what they did and still do is because they love doing it it's simply their passion. And boss was one of the faster middle linebackers to ever play the game. And major props to him.
He was a beast in high school before the juice and a beast on it as well. The unfortunate thing is once labeled it’s hard to shake it. Lot’s of people used it and couldn’t make the plays he made. Great instincts!
+zaxx19 In the 80's, who in college didn't take steroids? The NFL was even worse. Steroids are not some "magic" pill that makes you one of the best college players in history. He's a big guy anyway. He had a lot better shortened pro career than people think.
+zaxx19 he was more just plagued by injuries, his shoulders were in condition of 60 year old by the time he got to the pro's. whether he did steroids or not his career would have ended the same
You betcha Boz was a "In Your Face, Knock Your Lights Out, Radical, Smart, Radical, kind of Linebacker! He hepled win the 1985 National Championship for the Sooners and Our Beloved Coach Barry Switzer! He grew up in Texas but wanted to play for a Winner, OU! I was personally MADLY in love with "The Boz", had posters of him all over my room! Boz you are truly a Sooner Legend! Love You still all is forgiven!
Greatest college linebacker of all time and one of the greatest college players of all time. Think what his statistics would be if he played more than a half of each game. He would have been 3X Butkus Award winner if he stayed his SR. year.
Jason Lyte-Armstrong It's obvious that you never saw him actually play. It's even more obvious that you know very little about the game of football. Your ignorance, however, is now a matter of record.
Think what his statistics would be if he abided by the rules and didn't abuse steroids and play a weak Big 8 schedule against teams from the rural plains.
George Washington Ask Miami (Fla), Lou Holtz, Joe Paterno, and Tom Osborne how good he was. How many tackles against Miami in the Orange Bowl? 22. Are you saying opposing players weren't on steroids? Greatest college linebacker of all time! Nuff said.
Yes, exactly. I know nothing about the game at all. Excellent point, sir. Typical youtube response; if you don't have anything of substance to say, simply undermine your detractors by insulting them or saying they don't know what they are talking about. Truthbetold, I play football in high school as well as a small NAIA school in college. Sure I didn't play NCAA ball, but I know football very well. I believe your loyalty to the Sooner nation blinds your ability to see the truth. Bosworth was cool character in college, but he was a lot similar to the old Big 10 linebackers Pat Fitzgerald and Andy Katzenmoyer. Great athletes, but marginal football players, Andy being better than the other two. Watch this video again and you will see how UNSOUND of a football player Bos was. Which is precisely why he was not successful as a pro. When you respond to me, respond with substance.
OLD SCHOOL FOOTBALL!! miss playing this game! Because...it was so much more than just a game! To me. Even now that I'm 51, after watching this, I feel like going outside at forearm a tree! lol.
Doctors said at 22 tears old he had a 63 year old shoulder. He had a law suit over NFL insurance that was bought thru Loyds of london. they were saying it was degenerate arthritis, and Boz was saying it was from massively hard hits that took they're toll. they settled.
Loved Boz,great motor,speed,nose for the ball. It's too bad his shoulders went so young. His only flaw was his tackling,always high,alot of horse collars and short grabs. Always got em down,just not many big hits. Definitely one of the best college lb's I ever watched.
Boz was the size and had the strength and quickness of a current player When he played it was very very rare to see that physicality He was before his time but it’s fun to watch him
great LB on a great team. bad shoulders cut a good pro career short. maybe he was pumped up too much, but he was a very solid NFL linebacker when he wasn't injured.
A lot of his tackles would be horse collar penalties today and no one snaps the ball from under center anymore. But I loved watching him play in college
He bursts through the o-line like a hot knife through butter ... I hate the god dam Sooners but I have to agree the Boz in my opinion is the greatest college LB of the modern era.
the Game against Miami in 1986 , that was the Best Game a Linebacker could Play . B. B. had like 22 tackles against the University of Miami Hurricanes in Florida
If there was a stat for negative yards created he would probably own that NCAA record. When he blitzed he was in the backfield with reckless abandon on QBs and RBs. His closing speed was insane quick.
And the only salute I will give out was the Miami Hurricanes of 1985 the only gladiators to leave Norman with a Win....they won the battle that day but the SOONER AND THERE BIG BAD LION (THE BOZ)WON THE WAR..NATIONAL CHAMPIONS 1985...
Bosworth was probably the best college linebacker I ever saw play period. He could play today if he was of college age and still be a All American. He was not a bust in the NFL. His pro career was cut short by knee injuries. His rookie year was very good. Yeah Bo Jackson ran him over, but no one talks about the tackels for losses he had on Bo.
I hate when people talk about him being a bust. The dudes shoulders were in horrible condition. He still had over 100 tackles his 1st and second season. He was a freak of nature and that IQ was ridiculous.
The reason everyone had problems with the LBs, well, there was a NoseGuard named Tony Casillas that tore lines apart. Those Sooner defenses were incredible. Troy Aikman went down and Jameile went crazy to win a National Title as a freshman. God knows how many titles they could have had if Marcus Dupree had stayed. Don't forget NFL HoF TE Keith Jackson was right there. Unstoppable. But, perhaps rightfully so, Dupree wasn't happy and he left. Still love him and still have one of his jerseys.
Casillas was so overrated. he was a bust if you remember. He was the #2 pick in the entire draft and had about 10 sacks his whole career. With Dallas in the 90's he played on a powerhouse, and he played running downs, but how can you possibly say Tony Casillas was good? Keith Jackson was great but they never passed. That is why Miami beat them. Boz had 21 tackles against Miami, Dupree was a RB, teams like those, could never come back from behind, cause they couldn't throw it.
I forgot an important aspect. Look at Casillas now. He weighs about 215, even after he retired he shrunk quick, remember he was the smallest DL in the NFL. He had a very mediocre NFL career, he was Hispanic and the genes made him undersized. Did he use steroids?? What do you think.
Played 3 seasons. Had almost 400 tackles!! Championship against Miami, had 22 tackles. The pro's he changed positions. He was the playcaller at strongside, but in the pro's weakside.
I remember being at a OU vs K-State game in Norman, Brian sacked the quarterback, dragged him back several yards , then stood over him yelling with his finger in his face. Flags flying ,15yds. Didn't matter, he got into that guy's head and he couldn't keep his eyes off Brian for the rest of the game.
@Matt Beeman totally agree with you. There has been at least a half dozen go through Miami's program that were better than Boz. Butkus and some of them other dudes from the 70's were real men. I watched them all play.
