A two-time Dick Butkus Award winner during his college football career at the University of Oklahoma, he also achieved notoriety for his outspoken comments and antics.

Bosworth was selected by the Seahawks in the first round of the 1987 NFL supplemental draft, but his professional career was cut short by injury.

He attended MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, where he was a two-time consensus All-American for the football team.

[2] A strong-side inside linebacker throughout his college career,[3] Bosworth was known for raising his level of play in big games.

The winner of the first two Butkus Awards as the nation's top college linebacker, he remains the only player ever to have won the accolade more than once.

In October 1999, Bosworth was named to the Sports Illustrated NCAA Football All-Century Team as one of only nine linebackers on the squad.

He was particularly focused on the level of control the NCAA exerted over athletes, preventing them from making money during their college careers.

During the 3rd quarter of that game, Bosworth pulled off his football jersey to reveal a t-shirt that read, "NCAA: National Communists Against Athletes."

[5] 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.

In it, Bosworth said the Sooner football program was laden with drug use, gunplay in the athletic dorm, and other wild behavior.

Although many Sooner boosters dismissed it as the rantings of a resentful ex-player, an NCAA report issued three months later confirmed many of Bosworth's claims, and ultimately led to Switzer being forced to resign.

At one point, Bosworth was interviewed by Bryant Gumbel on The Today Show and declared his desire to play for the Los Angeles Raiders saying they best fit his personality.

By getting dismissed from the football team after the Orange Bowl t-shirt incident, Bosworth lost his leverage in trying to control where he would play.

[13] Bosworth signed with a Seahawks 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 AFC West as they lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in head-to-head matchup).

During a red zone play, Jackson received a hand-off and powered through Bosworth's attempted tackle to score a touchdown.

[19] In August 2014, Bosworth appeared in a Dish Network commercial with fellow former players Matt Leinart and Heath Shuler, depicting them pining for a chance to return to their more successful college days.

In 2010, Bosworth became a real estate agent for Sotheby's International Realty in their Malibu, California brokerage office.