Okay, I know there has been a bit too much football on the site lately, but damn it this is a site about Texas and you just can’t get away from some football talk, no matter what you think of the sport.  So we must report that tonight ESPN will air “Brian and the Boz” a documentary by Austin filmmaker Thaddeus Matula on Brian Bosworth – a decent football player who created an outsized presence as “The Boz” and pretty much bullshitted his way into being named an All-American and a first round draft choice of the Seattle Seahawks before flaming out.  Even then, he again bullshitted his way into a minor film career as an action hero.  If you haven’t seen “Stone Cold”  then you haven’t seen the one of the worst movie of the 80’s.

In his last Texas-OU game, I trained my binoculars on “The Boz” for much of the game and watched him get knocked on his ass repeatedly by the Longhorns.  He did not make a play the entire game.   I realized at that point that he was so much hype.  When his college career ended in a steroid scandal, my suspicions  were confirmed.  His pathetic pro career was icing on the failure cake.  And yet we can’t get rid of this guy and I have just wasted 10 minutes writing this.