The Boz

[BGIF]

I think it falls under ' time heals all wounds'. Correct me if i'm wrong but I don't recall people being to bent up when Pete Rose got banned, now, everyone wants him reinstated, me included. Well, eligible for the HOF anyway.

I think people have a HUGE miss conception about the peds in my opinion. 'Steroids' is about as generic a term as Pizza.

Rose didn't get banned for the steroids, excuse me, pizza he abused. He AGREED to being placed on the "Ineligible List" after negotiating with the Commissioner of Baseball for gambling on his team. A long time no-no in baseball.

In '91 the Hall of Fame made formal, a long time informal rule, banning those on the Ineligible List from consideration.

Charlie Hustle was a great baseball player. Charlie Hustler is still a piece of excrement who CHOSE TO BE INELIGIBLE.

Time has nothing to do with that.

 

[Hammer Of The Gods]

Rose didn't get banned for the steroids, excuse me, pizza he abused. He AGREED to being placed on the "Ineligible List" after negotiating with the Commissioner of Baseball for gambling on his team. A long time no-no in baseball.

In '91 the Hall of Fame made formal, a long time informal rule, banning those on the Ineligible List from consideration.

Charlie Hustle was a great baseball player. Charlie Hustler is still a piece of excrement who CHOSE TO BE INELIGIBLE.

Time has nothing to do with that.

With that condescending remark, you proved my point.

 

[BGIF]

With that condescending remark, you proved my point.

You served up the pizza. I just sliced it.

 

[Wild Bill]

It amazing that so many come down hard on baseball players for peds and steroids but football players seem to get a pass. Is it the increased aggressiveness that appeals to the fans in one sport but not another?

Bosworth was a talented HS player that developed into a college star in a drug abusing program. Apparently I'm one of the few that remember him getting banned in college for drug use. ARod is a peds bum today while Bosworth is revered among Big Hit fans.

He became a caricature, The Boz. Then the injuries piled up. He wasn't one and done but it was close.

I don't see much difference between Bosworth and Lyle Alzado, another caricature who enhanced his Big Hit skill through roids and another guy whose body payed the price. Bosworth was actually fortunate that his injuries emerged early in his career eliminating the need for the drugs that brought Alzado a bigger paycheck and destroyed him.

I think the nature of the two sports plays a role.

Baseball guys are fixated on stats and history. Stats were being artificially enhanced as the players were chemically enhancing. Juicers breaking records in baseball didn't sit well with the hard core fans. Football guys care about stats and history but to a lesser extent. I think this plays a role too.

 

[tadman95]

My most relevant memory of him is being trucked by Bo.......

 

[irishog77]

My most relevant memory of him is being trucked by Bo.......

I've never understood the lore pertaining to this play. Bo didn't Earl-Campbell his @ss or anything and knock the sh!t out of him. It was a forward running Bo that got better leverage on a sideways running Boz, and then Boz fell over the side of Bo after he was in the end zone and had scored.

Bo made a good play. Plays like that happen numerous times throughout a football game.

I think it was because Boz was a villain and that game was well-liked Bo's big coming out party on Monday Night Football. But the play itself did nothing for me, personally, in the lore surrounding Bo or Boz.

 

[connect the dots]

Tune in to watch a big dude cry for an hour, while his son awkwardly stands by.

What is there not to like about an allegorical redemption story. The Boz falls from grace, seeks forgiveness and remission of sins, enters the murky waters of baptism, and emerges a born again Brian - with the father(Barry Switzer), the son(awkward to see a vulnerable father), and the holy ghosts(former teammates such as Tony Casillas) as witnesses. This is the producer, Thad Matula's, second effort on ESPN. Earlier he presented the SMU debacle - Pony Excess. Both documentaries have held my attention.