Bernard Joseph Kosar Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes, leading the team to a national championship in 1983. He subsequently played in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns from 1985 to 1993, the Dallas Cowboys in 1993, and Miami Dolphins from 1994 to 1996. He was the backup quarterback on the 1993 Cowboys team that won Super Bowl XXVIII.
Kosar in 2023
Kosar with U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office in February 1987
Kosar with the Browns in 1988
Miami Hurricanes football
The Miami Hurricanes football team represents the University of Miami in college football. The Hurricanes compete in the NCAA's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, the highest level of collegiate football in the nation. The team is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, one of the five Power Five conferences in college football. The program began in 1926. Since then, it has since won five AP national championships in 1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, and 2001.
The first University of Miami football team in 1926
The Miami Hurricanes hosting Texas Tech at Burdine Stadium, later renamed the Miami Orange Bowl, in Miami, on October 31, 1941
Howard Schnellenberger (right), who coached the Miami Hurricanes from 1979 to 1983 and led the University of Miami to their first national championship in 1983
Jimmy Johnson, head coach from 1984 to 1989, who led the University of Miami to its second national championship in 1987, at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan in November 2009
