Bosworth was quoted in Sports Illustrated magazine's 1986 fall football issue as saying that at a summer job at GM's Oklahoma City plant, co-workers taught him how to insert the bolts in hard-to-reach places so they would rattle."If you own a Celebrity or Century made in 1985 in Oklahoma City, that car is (messed up) if I had anything to do with it," the 6-foot-2, 240-pound linebacker told the magazine. He said each bolt carried a note that said: "Aha! You found me!" Bosworth told the magazine: "I love the thought of people going absolutely crazy, saying "Where is that ... rattle coming from?"' Some of Bosworth's former co-workers who read the story wrote letters to Bosworth and to university officials at the Norman campus. Bosworth reportedly retracted the statement, although it was also reported that he denied the retraction.