Fun story: 49ers star Nick Bosa is the great-grandson of one of history's most feared mobsters

https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/amp/49ers-Bosa-is-great-grandson-Tony-Accardo-16802616.php

””Bosa’s great-grandfather got the nickname “Joe Batters” as a mere teen, allegedly due to a penchant for beating disloyal compatriots with a baseball bat.”

Good stuff. I had knew about this from Wikipedia.

 mindblown

Their birth grandfather was nfl player Palmer Pyle. Pyle was married to accardos daughter and 2 of their kids were eric kumerow(jakes father) and Cheryl Bosa. Eric kumerow(Ohio st) and John Bosa(Boston college) were teammates for dolphins and that’s when Cheryl met John bosa. Palmer Pyle didn’t raise the kids tho  accardos daughters 2nd husband was the father figure to Eric and Cheryl. Palmer Pyle didn’t have the pro career some thought coming out of mich st but his brother Mike had a very good career for bears and later a beloved broadcaster. Must been little weird tho for Mike calling bears games w his estranged nephew playing for them after left dolphina

They brought that up before SB vs KC. And frankly proves many of my points

Joe Burrow

Joseph Lee Burrow (Joe Brrr, Joe Shiesty or Joey Franchise)

Shiesty usually refers to an action that is greedy and/or inconsiderate. When someone is shiesty it means they don't think about others and do things that help them even if they know it harms someone else in anyway.

ruthless family and you can tell by the way he gets to the quarterback

Mrwhat, that is correct Ernie kumerow  was Tony accardos daughters 2nd husband and Eric and Cheryl(bosa mom) took his last name not Pyle their biological fathers. From what I understand Ernie kumerow was a very good baseball player at university of Illinois and later became a bigwig in 1 of trade unions(by being accardos son inlaw) 

I knew that this post would happen before clicking on the thread

I like him even more now

So where will this 49ers' testosterone binge party take us this year? Suddenly we are admiring players even more because they are related to a mob guy who whacked guys with baseball bats? 

A tight end from the 70s said in an interview that NFL games were a 'cathartic for American society'...I believe him. 

 I'm the third cousin once removed on my great aunts side to the brother in-law of a guy who ran book on the corners in West Baltimore... jus sayin

The Bosa’s arent their great grandfather and it isn’t like the nfl cares about associating w murders. It has a long and proud history of associations w murderers: from oj, Rae carruth, Aaron Hernandez, Phil adams, ray Lewis, Robert rozier just to name a few. I didn’t even name any player  that killed someone in vehicle accident, if I did the list would be too long to write. 

@Dickey227

 Excellent point...considering the criminal element in the NFL, it makes mob violence seem somewhat tame. 

@lancer89074

 100% lancer, the nfl cares more about punishing unvax players and getting minority coaches hired then they do about the criminal behavior of their players. I only mentioned know murderers the nfl is full of low life’s that are criminals of the worst proportion but they aren’t murderers that we are aware of. 

@undermysac

 Did you get access to the script?!? Please share

Yes,white playeri s related to criminal and it is glorified. 

STOP IT.

Which players are related to scientists and civil rights leaders?

@deano99

 You’re bigred?

Don't attack about typo.the message is transferred. 

....player is *

Nobody is admiring or not admiring, it’s just a fact. I’m sure every person is related to somebody who committed murder. It’s in our DNA. Did you ever watch The Godfather?! The entire thesis of that movie is that the underbelly of American society is nowhere near  as bad, powerful or violent as the legalized version in the form of politicians, priests and businessmen. So if you wanna keep your head in the sand and think some mobster from the turn of the century who whacked a few people is more morally depraved than politicians and businesses (including NFL owners) who have the blood of thousands if not millions on their hands then you go right ahead and live in that lie. 

Not everyone foreparents built ships and crossed large spans of water and killed loot rape and stole gold from natives