You Don't Know Bo...

[KI4MVP]

a 4.12 40 and he also ran a 4.18 40 the same week. No other player has ever done better than 4.24.

My two best memories of Bo Jackson were the seahawks game where he pretty much destroyed Brian Bozworth and the baseball all star game.

 

[Maximus]

a 4.12 40 and he also ran a 4.18 40 the same week. No other player has ever done better than 4.24.

My two best memories of Bo Jackson were the seahawks game where he pretty much destroyed Brian Bozworth and the baseball all star game.

Here's every Bo play from the Seattle game...they even show him destroy the Indians' Rick Dempsey. :chuckles:

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[Damage]

Part of me wants to say the legend of Bo Jackson was more tangible than his actual statistics.

The other part remembers watching him play and just crushing skulls, kittens and babies. He was a freak. He and Joey Albert fucking Belle were my favorite players growing up.

 

[Nicky]

I stopped everything that I was doing, to watch this in its entirety. Boxing up all my stuff had to wait. I love the intro. The slamming of a stick into the hoop.... He genuinely seems like a very decent/great human being.

I wanted a "Bo Knows" shirt..... never got one. It is interesting that his shoes have come back to being relevant, again.

He's an amazing specimen of a man.


He played football as a "hobby"..... Insane!

 

[Walter White]

Yea, I watchted this when it came out on ESPN, which I think was a couple months ago? I don't remember, but I think its on Netflix too. Anyway, yea I was so amazed at him that I had to tell people. The dude was like a mythical legend. And the crazy thing, it wasn't like he was just an "athlete" (even though he is the greatest of all time), but he was also a BEAST at both sports. It wasn't like Michael Jordan where he was amazing at one sport, but then just good enough to make a minor league team in the other. I mean, this dude was the number one pick in the draft, Heisman winner, and arguably the best RB ever.... and he didn't even really LIKE football. He just did it in his spare time from baseball, which is what he really loved. I'm proud to have him on the Royals. But wow, this guy is amazing.

 

[Randolphkeys]

Arguably the best RB ever? You can make an argument for top 10. Anybody who only plays about nine games a year and still breaks 1000 yards consistently deserves that.

I'd still take Sweetness Jim Brown, and probably Barry Sanders over Bo.

 

[Frank Reynolds]

Saw this a couple months ago, most memorable line:

"He could shoot a bow and arrow with his feet while doing physical therapy. "
Bullseye, bullseye.

Pretty cool...first at bat after his mother passed, and his hip replacement rehab was finally complete.... Homer

Amazing Guy.

Not such a 'stunna' as other big time athletes. Even keeled down to earth guy with superhuman abilities.

 

[Mac]

I remember as a kid I always wanted to be called Bo.

I still have that shoulder pads baseball bat poster that was probably his most famous and another one with him running as a Raider. I will never throw those things away.

He was so hyped at a time when there was no internet, no hype machine like there is today and yet as a kid he was bigger than earth.

One of my favorite cartoons as a kid was him, Jordan and Gretzky as super heros or something silly like that.

 

[Walter White]

Arguably the best RB ever? You can make an argument for top 10. Anybody who only plays about nine games a year and still breaks 1000 yards consistently deserves that.

I'd still take Sweetness Jim Brown, and probably Barry Sanders over Bo.

Thats why its arguably.

 

[oasis05]

How about Ben Gay? Dumb as a box of rocks, but had one of those bo jackson bodies. Obviously it exists. There are guys that don't need to lift. I don't know why it's so unbelievable. Some people just have retard strengths.

 

[7foot3]

He was already a mythical genetic freak in gradeschool and highschool. I doubt he could afford them...he was dirt poor living in a shanty. Everywhere he played the people and organizations were amazed that he never lifted weights. One would think that if someone made the decision to do steroids that they would also lock themselves in a weightroom to take full advantage of them. I saw an interview with his Auburn coach Pat Dye. He said the only thing that drove him crazy about Bo was that he wouldn't lift weights. He said Bo told him something to the effect "Coach, I've always been the strongest and fastest person on any track or field i've ever stepped on...if i'm ever not, then come talk to me about lifting weights".

I don't think he ever took a thing. I think his genetics were just a gift from God.

Except that PED's are available in Latin American countries, and dirt poor baseball players are considered to be the most likely users. And there are ways to get ripped without actually lifting weights. Male gymnasts are some of the strongest pound for pound athletes in the world, and they rarely lift weights. Bo was a workout warrior, just doing bodyweight lifts and running steps, he certainly wasn't just sitting around.

And I'd be more surprised to find out that a SEC football player in the 80s didn't use steroids than the other way around. I'm not going to throw out baseless accusations, but the narrative assigned to Jackson fits the mold of what we consider the typical PED user. And PED use was pretty rampant in his era, especially in the NFL.

 

[7foot3]

Arguably the best RB ever? You can make an argument for top 10. Anybody who only plays about nine games a year and still breaks 1000 yards consistently deserves that.

I'd still take Sweetness Jim Brown, and probably Barry Sanders over Bo.

If the criteria is one game in his prime, then sure. But Bo's body couldn't hold up to the pounding, a necessity for a RB, like the true HoFers. And he never hit 1000 yards rushing in a season.