I was living in Sacramento at the time Boz got picked up by my favorite team in the supplemental draft. I had read the sports illustrated article about him and thought he was an asshole when I was 16?. Some of the stuff he claimed to have done was pathetic and I was shocked that he laid claim to being responsible for these actions. I didn't like him at all, the SI article was in 86? TV coverage of the Hawks was sparse in the late 80's so I didn't get to see him play much, but ESPN made a point of covering him throughout his brief career. I moved back to Seattle in late 90 and went to several Hawk games that year. Still remember seeing lots of Boz T-shirts at the games. He had to have sold half as many shirts as Bo did in the PNW.
Selling "Ban the Boz" shirts to Donkie fans and reaping the profits (remember something about donating to charity also??) was a troll move most can find totally funny.
Cut and paste from Wiki..
"Bosworth signed with a Seattle team that had failed to reach the playoffs for two seasons (a 10-6 finish in 1986 was only good enough for 3rd in the old AFC West as they lost out to the Kansas City Chiefs in head to head match-up). He 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. Before the first game of the season, versus the Denver Broncos, Bosworth trash talked Denver quarterback John Elway. 10,000 Denver fans wore $15 T-shirts reading "BAN THE BOZ", but did not know that Bosworth's company manufactured the shirts.[5]
Boz was not a colossal bust, he was productive but his body was shot before he came out of college. To many roids.
