Brian Bosworth created a Hollywood persona and set the blueprint that’s still being followed by today’s stars. Twenty years after his NFL career ended, I set out to find him in Southern California. It did not go well.

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In the end, Ryan Leaf wasn’t recognized as the quarterback who led Washington State to its first Rose Bowl in 67 years.
He wasn’t identified by his NFL infamy, either.
Leaf was picked out of police photos by a victim who had returned home to find a tall guy coming out of her trailer home wearing shiny black loafers. He said something about being at the wrong address. (CONT.)
I profiled the one guy who was adamant that D.B. Cooper was NOT a folk hero. Ralph Himmelsbach — the FBI agent assigned to the case — never got the romanticism for the only unsolved skyjacking in American history.
The story was published Jan. 23, 2022 in “Pacific NW,” which is the Sunday magazine of The Seattle Times.
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