Hostetler spent the whole week leading up to the Super Bowl tending to his left leg. It wasn’t great, but there was no way he was going to miss the biggest game of his life. All these years later, Hostetler said he had suffered a torn ACL. He actually played the end of the NFC Championship Game, the Super Bowl, and the rest of his NFL career with no intact ACL in his knee!
“I’m one of the very few that had enough other things going on structure-wise that I was able to continue to function,” Hostetler said. To this day, he maintains it has never been fixed. He’s had MRIs since, and doctors will look at the knee and mention the ACL is gone. It’s something he already knows, but it’s also nothing one can really tell without doing a thorough evaluation.