Raised in the northeast, Bobo has found a home in the pacific northwest
SAN FRANCISCO — Jake Bobo’s road to Super Bowl 60 doesn’t look like the kind UCLA used to frame on the walls of the Rose Bowl press box. It’s longer.Crooked.
East Coast winters, transfer portals, undrafted status, and a whole lot of doubt stitched into every mile.And yet, on Sunday, the Bruins will see one of their own line up on football’s biggest stage again, this time for the Seahawks, with history tugging quietly at his jersey.Bobo, the former UCLA wide receiver who arrived in Westwood as a one-year bridge and left as a cult favorite, will play in the Super Bowl against his hometown Patriots. Concord, Massachusetts raised him.
UCLA refined him.Seattle believed in him.
That sequence matters.It’s the whole story.Los Angeles understands this arc. California Post News: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, WhatsApp, LinkedInCalifornia Post Sports Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, XCalifornia Post Opinion California Post Newsletters: Sign up here!California Post App: Download here!Home delivery: Sign up here!Page Six Hollywood: Sign up here!UCLA has long been a proving ground for stars who carried a little edge with them — Troy Aikman, the Hall of Fame quarterback with three Super Bowl rings and an MVP.
Jonathan Ogden, a left tackle who bent games to his will.Ken Norton Jr., who stacked titles like scars.
Randy Cross.Matthew Slater.
Bruins don’t just show up to the Super Bowl.They belong there.
Bobo is the latest name, and maybe the most unlikely of them all.He announced himself to the NFL in the NFC Championship Game with a third-quarter touchdown that knocked out the L.A.Rams.
It was his first touchdown catch of the season and the fourth of his career.When the game kicks off on Sunday, UCLA fans will remember their favorite target with the calm hands and routes run with intention.To this day, the Rose Bowl is still his favorite stadium.“That’s a tough scene to beat,” Bobo said.
“I mean, you go up there and see that, it ki...