1. Brian Bosworth was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2015.
40 Facts About Brian Bosworth
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Brian Bosworth attended MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, where he was a two-time consensus All-American for the football team.
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Brian Bosworth was recruited to play football for the University of Oklahoma.
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Brian Bosworth played linebacker for the Oklahoma Sooners for three seasons, from 1984 to 1986.
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Brian Bosworth was recognized as a unanimous All-American in both his sophomore and junior years.
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Brian Bosworth was barred from playing in the Orange Bowl following his junior year after he tested positive for steroids.
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Brian Bosworth claimed that his use of steroids was medically prescribed by his doctor because of injuries.
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Brian Bosworth was regarded as a great tackler, although he was occasionally criticized for tackling too high.
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In October 1999, Brian Bosworth was named to the Sports Illustrated NCAA Football All-Century Team as one of only nine linebackers on the squad.
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Brian Bosworth is known for his radical hairstyles, his on-field play, and his criticism of the NCAA.
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Brian Bosworth was particularly focused on the level of control the NCAA exerted over athletes, preventing them from making money during their college careers.
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Aware that Brian Bosworth was likely to be entering the NFL draft anyway, the OU coach, Barry Switzer, dismissed Brian Bosworth from the team.
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Brian Bosworth was quoted in Sports Illustrated magazine's 1986 fall football issue as saying that at a summer job at GM's Oklahoma City plant, co-workers taught him how to insert the bolts in hard-to-reach places so they would rattle.
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Brian Bosworth told the magazine, "If you own a Celebrity or Century made in 1985 in Oklahoma City, that car is if I had anything to do with it".
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Brian Bosworth reportedly retracted the statement, although he later denied the retraction.
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In September 1988, Brian Bosworth wrote an autobiography, The Boz, with Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly.
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Brian Bosworth planned his college coursework so that he could graduate a year early, which would allow him the option to enter the NFL draft a year early.
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Brian Bosworth was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round of the supplemental draft in June 1987.
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In 2015, long after Brian Bosworth retired, the NFL changed its rules to allow linebackers to wear jerseys in the 40s.
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Brian Bosworth signed with a Seahawks team that had failed to reach the playoffs for two seasons.
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Brian Bosworth appeared in 12 games in his rookie season, playing well for the most part, but became known more for his outspoken personality and appearance than his actual play on the field.
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Later that season, prior to the Seahawks' second matchup with the Los Angeles Raiders, Brian Bosworth publicly claimed that he was going to "contain" Raiders running back Bo Jackson.
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Brian Bosworth was forced to retire in 1989 after only two seasons, having suffered a shoulder injury in the 1988 season.
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Lloyd's position was that Brian Bosworth's shoulder was injured as a result of degenerative arthritis which was not covered in his policy.
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Brian Bosworth maintained his injury was sustained during a single hit.
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On January 9,2015, Brian Bosworth was announced as one of the inductees to the College Football Hall of Fame class of 2015.
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In 2004, Brian Bosworth was picked by voters as the third-worst flop on the Biggest Flops of the Last 25 Years list by ESPN.
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Brian Bosworth starred in Lawless, a television series for Fox that was cancelled immediately after its premiere.
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In 2001, Brian Bosworth joined the XFL as a color commentator for its television broadcasts.
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Brian Bosworth was assigned to the crew which called games that aired Sunday nights on UPN, which consisted of Chris Marlowe on play-by-play and Chris Wragge and Michael Barkann as the sideline reporters.
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Two years later, Brian Bosworth was hired by Turner Sports as a college football studio analyst.
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Brian Bosworth worked on TBS' Saturday night game coverage, contributing to pregame, halftime, and postgame coverage alongside studio host Ernie Johnson.
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Brian Bosworth has been a guest on numerous episodes of Chopped as a judge.
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Brian Bosworth appeared on episode 1, in the 2010 season of Hell's Kitchen as a dining guest.
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Brian Bosworth appeared with Bo Jackson in a Tecmo Bowl-style television advertisement for the Kia Sorento in 2016, which parodied Jackson running through him in their 1987 game.
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Brian Bosworth has appeared as the sheriff in the "Fansville" series of Dr Pepper commercials since 2018.
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Brian Bosworth married his high school girlfriend, Katherine Nicastro, in September 1993.
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Brian Bosworth has two nephews who played football for the UCLA Bruins.
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In 2010, Brian Bosworth became a real estate agent for Sotheby's International Realty in their Malibu, California brokerage office.
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On July 5,2008, Brian Bosworth assisted with the rescue of a woman who rolled her SUV east of Winnipeg, Manitoba.