Bosa's great-grandfather was once bodyguard for Al Capone

Bosa's great-grandfather was once bodyguard for Al Capone

Former Ohio State Buckeyes arresting end Joey Bosa is about accepted to be one of the top picks in the 2016 NFL Draft. He's basically NFL royalty, afterward in the footsteps of his father, John Bosa, and uncle, Eric Kumerow both of whom were first-round selections.

But one affair abounding humans don't apperceive about Bosa is that his great-grandfather, Tony Accardo, was a Chicago mob bang-up for added than 40 years.

Accardo wasn't just some accidental low-level mafioso, either. Accardo, accepted to his mob assembly as "Joey Batters," or just "Joe B." for short, was a abundant hitter in Chicago, figuratively and literally. Al Capone gave him the appellation afterwards Accardo allegedly asleep two guys with a baseball bat.

Accardo, who died in 1992 at the age of 86, never spent a night in jail.

When his home was torn into in 1978, Accardo's declared avengement adjoin the burglars was abrupt and bent -- and graphic.

The Chicago Tribune appear an commodity in 1984 about Accardo's administration as the arbiter of the Windy City. According to the article, his backfire adjoin the able thieves who torn into his home was absolutely gory:

"Each was begin with his throat cut; one was castrated and disemboweled, his face removed with a draft torch, a abuse imposed, presumably, because he was Italian and should accept accepted better."

Accardo may accept been complex in one of the a lot of belled mob attacks in history

It's been speculated that Accardo, who aswell formed as Capone's bodyguard, had a duke in planning the blood-soaked 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre that larboard seven associates of the Bugs Moran assemblage dead. In his book, Accardo: The Genuine Godfather, Former FBI abettor William F. Roemer Jr. said it was accessible that Accardo was a apparatus gunner. The case, of course, was never solved.

NFL teams were afraid about Accardo's acceptability if Kumerow was drafted

When Bosa's uncle and Accardo's grandson, Eric Kumerow, was traveling through the pre-draft process, NFL teams were anxious that Accardo ability try to access the aftereffect of games. Bosa's mother, Cheryl, told the Chicago Tribune that it was Roemer who told them that Accardo had far too abundant candor to put his grandson in that situation.

Joey Bosa never got to accommodated his great-grandfather, but he wishes he had.

"I've alone heard amazing things about (Accardo)," Bosa said via the Chicago Tribune. "Wish I could accept spent some time with him afore he passed."

Accardo would accept absolutely admired to apperceive Bosa, too. In his after years, according to the Tribune commodity from 1984, the organized abomination arbiter spent his chargeless time watching his grandchildren play Little League brawl and accessory their academy functions.

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