I am not a Brian Bozworth fan but...

A couple of points yet to be posted. Looney, who I thought played at Olney, went to Texas on a track scholarship, pledged Kappa Sig and then transferred to OU. Guy was big, fast, and a really great punter. Great waste of talent. Serious problems between the ears limited his greatness.

Bosworth was a worthless piece of ****. Look at the people that went through Norman under Barry. How many were ever licked off the team? Only one - Brian Bosworth. Not even Barry and/or Scott Hill could control him. They begged him to drive the Corvette around Norman and keep the Jaguar garaged, but his ego was too big.

Best thing about Bosworth was when Barry changed the OU defense to "feature" Bosworth. It was designed to showcase Bosworth on national TV against the convicts and help him win the Hype$man trophy off one game. A few of us actually had a football pool on the game, not for score but you got to pick at what point during the game Barry abandoned that defense. As I recall, it was about 9 minutes left in the second quarter.

I give the guy a lot of credit for marketing himself and attracting all the hype. Perhaps the second coming of PT Barnum. As a player, he was no where near the class of Rod Choate, Jimbo Elrod, Jerry Tubbs, or Carl McAdams. His mocking of opposing players who sufferred career ending injuries during games was beyond classless and showed his true arrogance. He did a good job of marketing himself and concealing his lack of ability to deliver. How he missed the steroid train to Lincoln is beyond me.
 
I was hanging on the rail outside the Hoffbrau the night before we finally beat OU again a few years ago.

I took up my usual post 5th Scotch post on the rail and was taunting the Sooners walking by.


First in good fun, but, you know how it gets as it gets later.

I find my self yelling in the face of these two guys that i had no business as a grown man yelling at, but I was caught up in the moment and the alcohol and adrenaline were flowing.

A big son of a ***** dressed as Santa Claus came up and pulled us apart, told me to calm down and that he couldn't stand it either when punk mouthed kids got into his face ( and, truthfully, it was more my fault than theirs) - (and, a clear innuendo from him that I was as much of a punk to him as these kids were to me) - I brought him a beer and he took his beard down to drink and it was Bosworth.

Couldn't ******* believe it because I hated him more than anyone that has posted here.

We chatted for a good 15 minutes and I have been a fan since.

I don't let loose like that very often, in fact, not at all as I am getting older and wiser, but that night it seemed the right thing to do and I was WAY out of line and he calmed the situation down perfectly.
 
I knew Santa Claus, and Brian Bosworth is no Santa Claus.
He didn't march to a different drummer, he marched to a different drug dealer.
But that 1963 game is one of my all-time favorite UT games, and it featured the first #1 (ou) versus #2 (UT) contest that Texas played in, for you trivia buffs. It was indeed a totally one-sided contest from the beginning to the end. Very satisfying.
 
Not to get too far off topic, but as I previously posted Looney played HS ball at Ft.Worth Pascal. I remember talking with his former HS Coach, the late Bill Allen in the late 60's early 70's about him. Allen would go on and on that he was one of the best he ever saw play the game but he was a head case - wasted his talent, etc.

After HS, Looney did go to UT on a track scholarship, joined a fraternity and flunked out. Transferred to TCU, continued to party and make bad grades, then went to a Jr. College in OK before ending up at ou under Wilkenson. Problem was the guy was an incredible talent at RB and as someone said he was a good punter, but he just wasn't all that interested or motivated to play football or do much of anything else meaningful with his life.

He mostly drifted though life using drugs and alcohol before, I believe dying in a motorcycle accident around 1990?
 
the sooner legends video you referenced was quite good, but that was definitely one of the highlights. dude just broke down during his apology. we all acted in ways that were embarrassing when we were young, and i'm sure he regrets a lot looking back. particularly his book.

sure he was a douchebag, but he was our douchebag, and he was one badass ******* football player. steroids or not.
 
Jeff Ward has a couple of good stories about bozworth that i'll probably screw up if i try to tell.

generally what you might expect-

"WE'RE GOING TO KICK YOUR BBBLLLLLAAAARRRRRRFFFFF......uuuhhh.........CCHHHUUUUCCCKKKK......"
 
Notreally, Whenever Bozworth was kicked off the team, there was another guy who was a freshman that year. His last name was Leatherwood. I saw him play in the Oil Bowl game in Wichita Falls his senior year and he freakin' DOMINATED that game. He was a tall, lanky kid who played DT/DE but would have probably been moved to OLB in college. The only other better defensive performance I have ever seen was when the Selmon brothers played in that allstar game.

That guy was stud. Do you know any other details about him? Whatever happened to him? It's a shame that he got caught up with Bozworth.
 
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