Bo Scarbrough Helps Lead Birmingham Stallions to USFL Championship

Bo Scarbrough did one of many issues he does greatest on Sunday evening: Assist groups from Alabama win championships. 

The previous Crimson Tide working again scored the primary landing, and completed the primary half with greater than 100 speeding yards because the the Birmingham Stallions gained the primary USFL Championship Recreation since 1985. 

Birmingham defeated the Philadelphia Stars in Canton, Ohio, house to the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame, 33-30. 

Scarbrough, who lifted the championship trophy for his teammates in the course of the postgame celebration at midfield, completed with 13 carries for 135 yards and one landing.

The landing was the primary of the sport, on a 36-yard carry. 

Due to a 70-yard carry that arrange a discipline objective, Scarbrough completed the primary half with with 122 speeding yards.

Nevertheless, he wasn’t a lot of an element within the second half, when the Stallions needed to come again and win after falling behind early within the fourth quarter. 

Birmingham retook the lead on a landing reception by Victory Bolden Jr. with 3:09 remaining, adopted by an interception returned 40 yards for a landing by linebacker Scooby Wright. 

Bolden Jr., who had six catches for 64 yards and the one landing, was named the sport MVP. 

After being added to the Stallions’ roster as a free agent in Week 4 of the USFL common season in Birmingham, Scarbrough rushed for 391 yards in seven video games (six begins). He is was third within the USFL with 58.7 speeding yards per sport on 4.2 yards per try.

Scarbrough was on the Crimson Tide from 2014-17, and tallied 1,512 speeding yards on 267 carries and 20 profession touchdowns. 

Though his greatest manufacturing was close to the top of the 2016 season, which included 180 speeding yards on 19 carries towards Washington, his Crimson Tide title rings got here in 2015 and 2017.

Each beginning quarterbacks left the sport because of an damage, with Philadelphia’s Case Cookus carted off within the fourth quarter with an obvious knee damage. 

Former Crimson Tide cornerback Bradley Sylve performed for the Stars this season, however was dominated out of the title sport because of an damage.