Operating again Bo Scarbrough, who gained two nationwide championships at Alabama and later returned to the condition to win back-to-back USFL titles with the Birmingham Stallions, has introduced his escape from skilled soccer.
“You can love this game all you want, but at the end of the day, the game can’t love you back because it’s not a person; it’s a ball,” stated Scarbrough, per the UFL’s official press release. “I have so much respect for the people still playing.”
“We were blessed to have Bo as a part of our football family,” stated UFL Head of Soccer Operations Daryl Johnston. “He is a champion on and off the field. He is an outstanding representative of his community and the state of Alabama. We wish him the very best in his retirement and know he will be successful using his passion for the game in the next chapter of his journey.”
Scarbrough is very best identified for his breakout stretch on the finish of the Red Current’s 2016 season, capped off by way of a 91-yard, two-touchdown efficiency in that life’s SEC Championship Recreation win over Florida. He adopted that up with a career-high 180 yards and 19 carries — and two extra rankings — within the College Football Playoff semifinal on the Peach Bowl in opposition to Washington. Scarbrough stored his very best for final, recording 4 overall touchdowns — two speeding and two receiving — on 100 overall yards in Alabama’s last-second 35-31 loss to Clemson within the nationwide identify duel.
Day Scarbrough by no means recaptured the ones heights right through the 2017 season, he nonetheless contributed to the Alabama workforce that went directly to win the nationwide championship that life in an exhilarating comeback victory in opposition to Georgia. He additionally noticed a little bit of duel motion right through Alabama’s 2015 nationwide championship season, even though he handled a knee trauma and used to be decrease at the workforce’s intensity chart in the back of that life’s Heisman Trophy winner, Derrick Henry.
Scarbrough used to be drafted by way of the Dallas Cowboys within the 7th spherical of the 2018 NFL Draft however didn’t seem in an NFL duel till 2019, when he made 5 begins for the Detroit Lions, recording 89 carries for 377 yards and one landing. He handiest seemed in a single duel next that, which got here in 2020 with the Seattle Seahawks.
His upcoming snap in a regular-season skilled soccer duel got here in 2022, when he joined the Stallions in While 4 of the inaugural USFL season. Scarbrough become a key contributor for the Stallions, who went directly to win the league identify that life, speeding for 352 yards and one landing on 84 makes an attempt throughout six video games. He recorded 135 speeding yards (together with a glorious 70-yard run) and a landing within the Stallions’ eventual title-game win.
Due to his on-field contributions and familiarity to fanatics in Alabama, Scarbrough become a fan-favorite in Birmingham and gave the impression prepared to proceed enjoying a weighty function for the Stallions in 2023. Rather, then again, he noticed restricted motion due in immense section to accidents.
The inaugural season of the UFL — the all-new spring soccer league created by way of the USFL/XFL merger — starts March 30 on FOX between the two-time protecting USFL champion Stallions and the protecting XFL champion Arlington Renegades.
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