He was a member of the Jets team that defeated the NFL's champion Baltimore Colts, 16–7, in Super Bowl III.

Boozer excelled as well at the college level, where he showed open field ability as a back as well as strength and intensity as a player that exceeded his 5 ft 11 in, 190-pound size.

[7] The Jets were assembling a team of talented and enthusiastic players under George Sauer and Wilbur "Weeb" Ewbank.

[5][9] He had ten touchdowns by mid-season and appeared ready to easily surpass the league record, but then suffered a devastating knee injury against the Kansas City Chiefs, that completely altered his career.

[10] During the 1967 training camp period, the Jets were nearly driven apart by a racial incident among teammates at a local bar in Peekskill, New York.

He said the only two players on the team that he absolutely needed were Snell and Joe Namath, and anyone else could pack their bags and leave if something like the bar incident was repeated.

[11][12] Boozer and Winston Hill were the blockers during Snell's famous touchdown run against the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III.

Boozer scored the first regular-season overtime ("sudden death") touchdown in NFL history on a short pass from Joe Namath in 1974 to beat the cross-town rival New York Giants, beginning an improbable six-game winning streak for the previously 1–7 Jet squad.

When injury robbed him of stardom, he reinvented himself and still had a remarkable career as a key contributor to a set of famous Jets teams.

[5] Boozer is a member of The Pigskin Club Of Washington, D.C. National Intercollegiate All-American Football Players Honor Roll.

[15] In the 1999 movie Big Daddy, Adam Sandler is wearing Boozer's New York Jets #32 jersey at the bar .