Mark Philbrick, BYU
PROVO — As a freshman, quarterback Robbie Bosco was sitting in the BYU locker room when equipment manager Floyd Johnson came around the corner and threw a jersey at him.
Bosco looked at the jersey, emblazoned with the No. 6.
“I was like, ‘OK, I’m No. 6, I guess,’” Bosco remembered. “I had that jersey ever since. I had no choice. I had no idea or what it meant or what it would mean.”
Some 35 years later, that No. 6 jersey will be retired — honoring not only Bosco, who led the Cougars to the 1984 national championship, but also quarterback Marc Wilson and running back Luke Staley, who also brought glory to that number.