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Ravell Call, Deseret News
Editor’s note: Eighth in a series exploring BYU’s 1984 national football championship.
No way Robbie Bosco could let an injury keep him from finishing the biggest game of his life.
The setting was the 1984 Holiday Bowl, BYU vs. Michigan. Nobody else — not Washington, not Oklahoma — would take on the challenge of playing undefeated BYU, so 6-6 Michigan did.
“For those who’ve experienced it, the adrenaline kind of masks the pain and as long as we were playing, I didn’t feel it as much. But in between plays, I could feel it.”
BYU quarterback Robbie Bosco
The Cougars had come so far. A 13-0 record was in sight. Bosco had worked hard. His teammates had made sacrifices and, for a change, the team was healthy and in a groove heading into their bowl game. It wasn’t time to sit on the sidelines while the college football world tied itself in knots that an outsider dared take what the game’s blue bloods believed was their birthright.
But there he was, in the locker room in the first quarter, a high ankle sprain getting taped up by a trainer. It was a national championship event and he was a key player for No. 1-ranked BYU.
‘I couldn’t stand up’
Four decades later, the memory for Bosco is etched in stone.
A few minutes before being taken to the locker room, Bosco had completed a pass to Glen Kozlowski before a Michigan lineman rolled up on his leg. With his foot stuck on the ground, the tackler trapped Bosco’s ankle at an awkward angle, and then grabbed the leg and twisted and turned it as he rolled over on the grass. An excruciating pain shot up Bosco’s leg.
“I remember laying there and thinking, ‘Just get up, I’ll be OK. Everything will be fine,’ but I couldn’t get up. Then I said to myself, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me. I can’t miss this game. Our players have…
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Publish date : 2024-10-17 22:30:00
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