For you young's who weren't there...just consider this: Bo played about 4 years in the NFL...and we're watching this video and talking about him. In 2023. THAT is how good Bo Jackson was. The ONE rule we had playing Tecmo Bowl was you couldn't play the Raiders. There's a reason for that. It rhymes with Bo Jackson.
Yo, this from an old head, I want to say thanks to you young fellas for showing some love to the brotha's from yesteryear. Keep doing what you do guys. Peace!
Bo was a great baseball player. An all-star. Tremendous power, tremendous speed, a great arm. He had it all. As an RB he was absolutely one of the best. Watch the 30 for 30.
Then you do not know baseball. He never deserved a all star spot. But the fans bought into the BS hype. He was a below average baseball player. I bet you did not know only 1 time in his career was his BA above his teams BA. When he retired in baseball he was only ranked as the #30 KS baseball player of all time & considering KS franchise had only been around 20 years at that point. Not so good. As far as a RB goes, just for perspective. He ranks at over 3000 all time for yards rushed by a NFL RB. There was a reason he would only get 14 carries per game. He would tire by end of game. Terrible blocker & pass receiver. John Madden said he could never learn the play book. 4 years he averaged 695 yards per year & 4 TD's per year.
He and Herschel Walker were just freaks. I think Bo had more agility than Walker, but both guys were SPECIMENS. The only two guys ive ever seen that were that big, and still have OLYMPIC type speed.
@@sydboskiWhat are you talking about? Bo had more speed than Herschel. I don’t think that he ever ran in the 100 or the 200 but his 40 time was 4.10, Herschel’s was 4.35.
The athletes overall are better today, but the best ever played in the mid/late 80’s. Bo Jackson, Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, Mike Tyson, Lawrence Taylor.
Greatest athlete I’ve ever watched during my life. His baseball abilities were unmatched in an era loaded with hall of famers. Not sure we’ll ever see anyone like him again.
BO is the best athlete I have ever seen in my life. Dude was seriously the GREATEST. Watched him throw out a runner that tagged up on 3rd and BO caught the fly ball almost at the wall. He then proceeded to throw the runner out at home plate on a laser throw. Crazy. Then when he ran over the BOZ.. epic
I remember the hype leading up to that game, the Boz vs Bo, Mono y Mono, who would come out on top. Bo got the best of him on that play. Bo Jackson could've been a top 5 all time running back in the league had he not got hurt. I'm not a raider fan, but he was must watch tv when he played.
Crazy part is...football was his hobby, he thought of himself as a baseball player that played football in the off season....would have been HoF in both sports if he stayed healthy...he was a better baseball player than running back🤯
One of the most exciting athletes of all time. I had the pleasure of meeting him many times as my brother played for the Royals. Many people do not know this about Bo and is crazy to me but his passion is hunting. He is straight country lol! There are some videos on youtube of Bo hunting. If I remember correctly he uses a cross bow. How the deer do not notice Bo up in the tree stand idk but after he made a kill I am not kidding he was almost in tears saying it has been almost a year since he had made a kill and it felt so good? It was kind of weird lol!
I was about 8 when Bo burst on the professional sports scene. Even though I was a Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Cubs fan, I was a huge fan of Bo (like everyone at the time). When he went down, it rocked both the NFL and MLB. It was like a collective mourning. We all knew we had just been robbed of what was likely to be an all time great in not just one, but two major sports. Side note: even video game maker Tecmo recognized the awesomeness. If you played as the Raiders on Tecmo Bowl (1989), all you had to do was a handoff to Bo, and you basically walked in the endzone every time.
The only way you could counter Bo was by picking the Giants and using LT. once you figured out the timing, he could block every field goal and extra point too. Damn, I miss the early 90s.
Walter Payton!!! That dude never went down and he played many years where he was the only offense the Bears had. He played 11 years without missing a game. The dude was a legend.
Guys there were 2 sport guys long before Bo and Deon. I think Bo was by far the best of them. He was at least as good at his position in FB as Deon, and Bo was a much better baseball player. Years ago the Knicks had a guy named Dave Debusschere who was a 6'6" forward, and also pitched 1 or 2 seasons in the Majors for the White Sox. He then played a couple more years of minor league ball and then stopped and concentrated on playing BB and also coached. There is an old TV western called The Rifleman. The star was a guy named Chuck Connors. Before he hit it big as an actor, he played 1st base for the Cubs and played for the Celtics too. There are others as well. Truth is fellas there ain't nothing much being done today that hasn't been done before. That's not me hating, just being truthful. As an older guy I appreciate you guys looking into some of the older players. Keep learning. Y'all be safe.
I'm 54. Bo was by FAR the best all around athelete I ever saw. Probably the best RB I ever saw. Barry a very close second. A guy who has a great highlight tape and who never gets enough discussion with the best RBs is Earl Campbell. Amazing power back you guys should check out.
What could have been. He had the agility and speed to make guys miss, but his tackle breaking ability, was at a whole other level from any RB ive ever seen in 40 years of watching football. Payton, Brown, and Campbell are the only ones even in the same ballpark.
@@chocolatetownforever7537 I'd put OJ in that group as well if we ignore his off the field troubles. OJ was on a 4x100 world record relay team so the dude had serious speed and his moves were amazing as well. The thing people will probably say is that he didn't break as many tackles but he was actually very powerful and hard to bring down as well. As for others, I think Dickerson is just outside that group and of course Barry had the best moves and was the quickest. Emmitt was always pointed in the right direction and seemed to get an extra yard on every carry. Lots of great ones out there over the years.
@@buckstraw925 Fair enough about OJ, but I feel he was more of a speed and agility guy than a tackle breaker. I just want to make it clear that the guys I named were in reference to the sentence before, about tackle breaking only. Guys like Barry, Emmitt, and others, as RBS, were absolutely right there, and one can make an argument for being the best of all time. I just think Bo was different in terms of his athleticism.
@@chocolatetownforever7537 Right, OJ wasn't a top 10 tackle breaker but he was far better at it then he was given credit for. I was talking more about the pure athletic ability and looked at the speed factor. Anyway, Bo was above all them for pure physical attributes.
Barry Sanders had the best moves and that's it. There were far better RBs that played the position completely. The greatest RB of all time doesn't get taken out on 3rd downs & goal line when his team needs him the most.
Bo was the type of athlete you came to watch. We are still here watching, but not just because of his athletic feats. He is a top notch guy that has possibly soared higher off the field, than he did on the field. Much respect Mr. Jackson!!
Bo was UNBELIEVABLE!!! He was everyone's sports hero... even if he wasn't on your team...TRAGIC that he had his career cut short by injury...and I'm fully in Broncos Country---only Raider I didn't HATE😁
I had a boyfriend that went to Auburn when Bo was there so I got to see him play college ball and he just dominated. He was amazing. He’s also an amazing humanitarian here in Alabama today. Bo knows strength and compassion!
Bo was the All star baseball player. Deion went to a loaded braves team. People forget all the HOFs Deion played with. On those Royal teams, it was just Bo.
The amazing thing about Bo as a running back is that he was a power back and a speed back at the same time. He could lower his shoulder and knock a defender on his butt. Then, immediately turn on the afterburners and blow the DB's away.
Call it bias or nostalgia or whatever you want but no was the effin man! I know these are young guys watching these videos and I like how they recognize and respect what they are seeing. If they knew the full context behind it all and combined with the emotion of the whole country watching! Bo is the living definition of the word " phenomenon ".
Deon was a decent baseball player and HOF football player. Bo would have been the first person to be a HOF in two sports if he didnt get hurt. Guy was just so much better than everyone else and even other players just shook there head.
"Keith, Ah have nevah seen an ath-a-lete lack Bo Jackson in mah LAHFF!!!" -Bob Costas doing an impression of ABC college football analyst Frank Broyles, according to a 1980s book by William Goldman. Absolutely true. Strong as Jim Brown, fast as Barry Sanders. Nowhere near as good a baseball player (Deion might actually have been the better hitter and baserunner), but good enough to make the All-Star team. A game-changer in one sport, an All-Star in the other. All until… The poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote "of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'it might have been'." But Whittier was wrong. The saddest words are "avascular necritis". Or possibly, "I'm fine. I'll play next week", which is what Bo told OJ Simpson while being interviewed for NBC after the Divisional playoff win against the Bengals. (Next week: Buffalo-51, Raiders-3. Bo: NFL career over. Hearts broken.) As the Vision said, "a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts". But damn.
NFL fan Redskins from the early 80s from Auckland New Zealand.Older brother played College football for Cal Berkeley in the early 90s.But Bo Jackson when your a freak of nature generated that much power or thrust where his leg came out of that tackle and mislodged those joints?Its just a freak accident everyone has to accept.
@@GeorgeTropicana The NFL is full of these stories. Many grate players stuck on bad teams. That's what started free agency to become what it is today but some players still get wasted in there rooky contract either with a terrible team and or terrible coach. Being at the right place at the right time is so very prevalent.
Don't know if anyone mentioned it, but Bo came back from hip replacement surgery and played baseball with an artificial hip for a season or so... he would play a full season of basball, then join the Raiders halfway through the football season. Sanders was very good, but not nearly the basball player Bo was. Bo was an all star in both sports. 😊
I get a kick out of these young men knowing football from before their time. Seeing #55 and "That's Bosworth" is cool. Noticing #32, Marcus Allen, out there. Everybody loved Bo, even Chiefs fans. He was that good, all recognized his greatness. I don't know the exact cause of his hip injury, but he stretched the human genome to its limits with his size, speed and power, combined. For us older fans, he was the next Earl Campbell, only faster.
They did not notice that Bo was running OVER the best Safeties of the time... he ran over Ronnie Lott and he ran over Steve Atwater; both of those guys were as legit as you can get and Bo ran through them(( remember Atwater changed Okoye's entire career with one hit))
You guys should do a reaction to Eric Dickerson. Not many of the younger generation know about him but I think he still holds the rushing record for most yards in a single season at around 2100. I think he ran the 100 yard dash in like 9.5 or 9.6 seconds and the world record is like 9.1 or something. That guy was an amazing running back.
He should have never left the Rams. That offensive line was perfect for him. I know the Rams didn't pay what he deserved but he would have broke many more records. I also never seen a running back who could straight-arm tacklers like he could.
Bo Jackson said he never worked out or went to the weight room. Dude is just a natural athlete. He also had one of the strongest cannons to ever play baseball. He threw a guy out at home who tagged up from third from the wall flat footed.
I got to watch Bo in person when he played at Auburn….. He has always been an amazing athlete and so much fun to watch. You watch in amazement every single time.
I remember the tv commercials with Dennis Leary and Bo Jackson. “I’m bringing Bo and his big bad hip…” Bo was a unique one of a kind athlete. So glad I got to see him play…
My favorite part is when the old Auburn baseball coach is standing at home plate in their stadium and pointing out various buildings Bo had home runs hit. "that dorm is about 475 feet, Bo hit that about halfway up. That building further out is about 550 feet, Bo shorthopped that one."
You should watch ESPN’s 30 for 30 on Bo Jackson. It is an awesome thing to watch. If he had gotten his hip looked at appropriately right away his career would not have been cut short.
Freak... Show. True story: When Bo was a freshman, I saw him play against Nebraska in Lincoln. Nebraska had a very good OLB - All Conference, second team All American, went on to play about 5-6 years in the NFL. Dude was no punk. No one outside the state of Alabama knew about Bo yet. Well, Bo had an education for their ass. He STEAMROLLED that stud linebacker. Ran his ass over like he was a blocking dummy. Fast forward several decades. I'm sitting in a local dive bar. The ESPN 30 for 30 featuring No was on TV. I was telling the guy I was drinking with about that story, when another guy a few seats down groans and grumbles. I asked him what was the matter. The guy at the bar WAS that linebacker. He told me he thinks of that play every time he hears the name Bo Jackson. I'm sure there are lots of guys who share that same sentiment.
His school records will NEVER be broken. He had more yards in 3 years than any other RB for that college has ever ran in 4. They will NEVER be broken. He was to college fb what gretzky was to hockey.. his numbers are so high that it's inconceivable anyone else will come close. The guy who holds 2nd all time there is like 2500 yards behind him lol.. an entire seasons worth of running
Bo Knows - Best athlete I've ever seen. I was in the Kingdome for 'The Throw". He fired a bullet from the left field warning track, gunning down the Mariners speedster, Harold Reynolds, at the plate with a perfect throw. It's on all the baseball highlight reels. At the time, I just shook my head and said to myself there's no way he just did that.
We know what an incredible athlete Bo was, but he’s also an incredible human being, so generous! Secret is out, he just paid for all the funerals of the children and teachers who were killed in the mass school shooting in Texas! A beautiful humble giving man!!☮️❤️
I'm from KC, loved watching Bo with the Royals when you could get into a game for about $7 upper deck, then in the later innings move on down to the seats behind home plate. Nobody checked your ticket back then. It was a real shame watching his last football run when he got injured in the playoffs against the Bengals, it confirmed what every Royals fan feared would happen. He could've played baseball for 15 years hitting 25-30 HR's a year and been a hall-of-famer.
Yes, Bo was the best athlete to ever walk the Earth. Ironically, his career was ended because during a tackle he was so strong that he ripped his bone out of its hip socket shattering it. The amount of force needed to do something like that is unfathomable.
Bo Jackson and Ken Griffey Jr. are the 2 top athletes in professional sports that unfortunately had their careers cut very short by injuries... but yet are both HOF players in every aspect of the sports they played.
Everyone forgets my all time fav the greatest lead off man ever, so good he was told to stop hitting hr, s that they needed him on base where he could wreak havoc
Bo Jackson was one of the fasted men in the NFL. Opposing coaches would tell you, that every time the man touched the ball, you had to just hold your breath because he could literally break it and go all the way every single time. He was incredible.
Bo is the most ridiculous athlete I've ever seen. He was a Pro Bowler in football AND an All Star in baseball in the same year. Meaning, he didn't just play two sports, he was one of the best in both sports, at the same time.
Thank you for reminding the younger generation of something that has only happened once and not since. If that fact alone doesn't make him the greatest athlete of all time, wth! Bo was also a very humble man,.
Ever wonder what made Bo have the God given speed, strength, fast twitch and stamina. His siblings were good athletes but Bo was a class of his own. We may never know why he was so special
He told the story once. He was playing in the sewers and got some green sticky ooze stuck on him, after that he grew ten folds and had 10 fold strength.
Funny thing is his stats would be insane if he didn't miss training camp and the first couple games of each year because he was playing in the MLB at an all-star level.
I love when younger giys like yourselves take an interest in the older guys like this . Im 45 and i watched him up until he got hurt . Was great in both sports and wouldve probably been in the HOF in both sports if he stayed healthy. U should look up Barry Sanders too! Two of my favorite RBs of all time!
A friend of mine played linebacker at a high school that went up against Bo's every year. He said Bo frequently got around him because he couldn't catch him...but when he did catch him, Bo just ran right over him.
A guy I know played linebacker at Alabama. He caught a Bo Jackson knee to his forehead trying to tackle him and said he was out cold for a good minute or two.
BIG FACTS!!! Deion was a beast of a football player and a very good baseball player...no doubts about that. Bo was a beast in both sports. Consider this...we're watching a video about his accomplishments and he only played 3 seasons in the NFL and 8 seasons in MLB due to a one in a million injury.
And look at his track & field performances. 10.39 100m, 13.81 110m hurdles, 6'9" high jump, 24'8" long jump, 48'9" Triple Jump, 50 ft shot and 149 foot discus. Insane.
@drsus0 @drsus0 Bo never did the NFL combine. His supposed 4.13 came from a local Auburn combine. There is no reason we should take this seriously. There is no way to verify the time or even the accuracy of the equipment. Given all the fastest sprinters have clocked around the low 4.2 range makes it fairly obvious the 4.13 didn't happen. Even Usain Bolt clocked a 4.22. There is no universe in which Bo was faster over any distance as Usain Bolt.
@@MrKT410 not the NFL official combine but he did run it w NFL scouts and his whole team there … and Bo and his coach and all those there corroborated it all. It was done electronically (thankfully because the hand stop watches had him at 4 flat) . So unless we’re calling Bo (who corrected the myth that it was 4.12) , his coach and the scouts there liars …
Finally someone other than me & a small few with common sense. Bo was one of my childhood hero's BUT, as I've grown older & have experienced life & not a child anymore, I realized the Bo is a liar about his 4.13 40-yard dash. And to correct you, Bo's fastest legal FAT 100m time was only a 10.44 & not the windaided 10.39 Google keeps posting. No track athletes talk about their illegal winded times bc they don't count. Anyway I'm glad to see that you call BS about Bo's nonsense 4.13 "electric" time when the NFL didn't have that technology until 1999 & Bo left to the NFL in 1985-1986.
Bama fan here and it pains me to say it, but Bo Jackson was the best RB ever. If he hadn't gotten hurt, he would have broken every NFL record there is for RB's.
Bo was an absolute superstar! Nobody had seen that kind of speed at that size before. I think he still holds the record for fastest 40 in Combine history at 4.13 if memory serves. May have been 4.12. Check out Bullet Bob Hayes when you get a chance! I think he was the closest to Bo's speed and size
We are so proud of Bo Jackson in Alabama. Auburn Tiger or Crimson Tide fans- we all yelled for Bo whatever sport or team he played for. He’s a fantastic man off the field as well. That always matters.
I beg to differ with you there he's in a category nobody else is he has been both NFL championship and MLB championship games nobody else has done that in history. He played for Atlanta which they lost but then he won the 2 super bowls.
@@Kojak024 when you use logic like that I'm pretty sure that bo couldn't cover one whole side of a field and shut that down like Dion did they were both special athletes and both talented in their own ways. You got to remember Dion played both sides of the ball whether he was running it ,playing wide receiver slot receiver or returning punts kickoffs he played everywhere pretty much. As far as skilled positions Bo did not don't get me wrong. I think they're both incredible athletes just in their own niche. End of debate.
I'm a few years older than you gentleman - let me tell you just what was so amazing about Bo Jackson. I saw it all from his freshman year in college where they beat alabama in the Iron Bowl for the 1st time in 11 years... Auburn people then had HOPE. Tampa Bay Bucs owner held the 1st pick in Draft & wanted him so he set up a visit to Tampa that got Bo kicked out of his last year of NCAA baseball - he hated tampa bay so bad that he went to baseball instead pf football - he had to play in AA Memphis and worked his way to Majors. Then The Raiders came calling the next season & he played football "as a hobby" - that's what the man said - a hobby like fishing or hunting.... ! On the football field he was BY FAR the most exciting player in the NFL. He would RUN OVER players BIGGER than him and outrun players smaller than him.... not the other way around... he was THAT good.
I’m not even a raider fan, & this guy would have been the leader of RBs easily if he hadn’t gotten hurt guys! This dude was SOOO talented it was crazyyy. In baseball he would throw you out almost from the wall, look it up. Just a serious freak of nature! Never seen it sense
Bo Jackson was awesome. He was at Auburn when I was in high school. I remember him very well and I was so sad when he got hurt. What a lot of people don't know about his injury is he almost died that night! What really ended his career with that hip injury was it severed the artery that supplies the hip with blood. When he told the coach and the doctor what happened they didn't even believe him. He went home that night and almost died he almost bled to death. He was something else that's for sure. He would have been a Hall of famer all the way if he had a full career. Thank you guys you guys are great 👍
That Dion vs Bo game was crazy. Bo hit 3 homeruns. Late in the game he dove for a liner that Deon hit. Missed and badly injured his hip. That was the same hip that caused his NFL retirement a year later. Deon hit an inside the park homerun. Bo was supposed to bat the following inning and try to hit his 4th homerun but he had to be removed from the game. In his first game back from injury he hit a homerun; meaning he hit 4 homeruns in 4 straight at bats tying a Major League record.
the only player to make the pro bowl and the MLB all-star game. Only athlete close was Jim Thorpe. He's from MaCalla Alabama not Birmingham. he got hurt in a playoff game against Cincinnati, a dude ran him down and when he tackled him he ripped his hip out of joint and it tore the artery and they didn't know it until it was to late.
Bo still played Baseball for a few years after the injury, with an Artificial Hip. Crazy. Bo was a Pro Bowl Football player and an All Star Baseball player. Had he stayed healthy possibly could have made Hall of Fame in two sports. Or imagine had he played just one or the other where his body could fully adapt to the sport. Tampa Bay had the 1st pic that year he came out of college and tricked him into visiting their facility which lost his eligibility to play Baseball. That was the deciding factor for him to say he was playing pro baseball over football but raiders drafted him anyway in the 7th and talked him into playing both. So raiders got the projected #1 overall pick in the 7th. Crazy
Another great that sometimes gets overlooked because he was injured after 6 years, was the great Gale Sayers. As a young man, he was the guy we loved to watch the most.
Some of those guys Bo was running right over in those highlights were known as the hardest hitters in the league at the time. Bo was so good he forced the Raiders to move Marcus Allen to blocking fullback. And that Family Guy/Tecmo Bowl episode was only a slight exaggeration. I played that game all the time and it was pretty damn close to being just like that! 🏴☠️ 🏈
Don't forget Dion Sanders. The best cornerback ever, other teams refused to throw his way. He was so good he limited the other team's offense to minus one wide receiver. He played pro baseball as well. He was a good line drive hitter with occasional power, maybe a 2.70 or so hitter and he could steal as many bases as he wanted. Fast in the outfield as well. Maybe the 2nd best pro overall behind Bo Jackson. I think he made the all-star team in baseball one or more years. I believe he played in a world series or playoff game for Cincinnati, then a football game for Atlanta on the same day.
He wasn’t the best CB ever. Close, but not the best. Deion was an atrocious tackler. Plenty of great CB’s effectively removed a WR from the opposing offense.
I’ll never forget when he was playing RF for the white sox and caught a ball on the track then threw a frozen rope to third to double up a player tagging from second. My brother and I looked at each other with our jaws dropped. We still talk about it to this day. I’ve never seen a stronger throw.
The highlights with the white sox are all post hip replacement. The dude hit a HR first at bat post hip replacement and could still throw guys out from the OF.
Great video, Bo Jackson was a ridiculous athlete. Probably the best ever. If you're looking for crazy multi sport athletes Dave Winfield was drafted by 4 leagues (NBA, NFL, MLB and ABA) Danny Ainge was the only ever high schooler to be first team all american in 3 sports (baseball, basketball, football) and just for pure freakish athlete is Christian Okoye, he didn't play football until he was like 22-23 (he was trying to be an olympian in discus) and a few years later he was the most feared RB in the NFL, 6'1" 260lbs 4.3 40, his career was short because he didn't get in the NFL until he was 27 I think.
Best athlete I've ever seen. He also ran track at auburn and his 60m record was only broken recently. He high jumped 7' in high school. He was qualifying for the 1992 winter Olympics bobsled team.
Deion???. Deion was obviously great in football, he was also a decent, baseball player.... But Bo....Bo was obviously a great football player, BUT also an amazing baseball player .. Bo was the only one that was an All Star in BOTH sports.. If the injury never happened, bo legit would've been a HOF'er both sports!.. These are the times that you actually had to see these guys play live to truly understand just how special Bo was!
Only athlete ever to make an All Star game in 2 sports. Also is the only person in NFL history with 2 90 yard touchdown runs. I did a couple of reports on him through my years at school. One of the most interesting athletes ever. Just a straight up freak of an athlete. Y'all need to watch his ESPN 30 for 30: Bo Knows.
Gentlemen please keep up the good work. I would love to see your reaction to Earl Campbell. Size, speed, moves had everything. And Walter Payton was the best!
I'd recommend watching a video of the greatest running backs of all time. There are so many that don't get the credit that they deserve. Even guys like Chuck Muncie and George Rogers-- two guys whose careers were cut short by injuries. And of course, Jim Brown, Gale Sayers, and Payton. Brown was Bo Jackson about thirty years earlier. Sayers was probably the most elusive until Barry Sanders came along. Payton did everything.
I think I heard this story from Bo's autobiography: In an SEC baseball game, he hit two homers. The second one went into a ~80 foot centerfield light; people swore at impact the ball was still going up. In his last at-bat, he hit a double and got booed.
For you young's who weren't there...just consider this: Bo played about 4 years in the NFL...and we're watching this video and talking about him. In 2023. THAT is how good Bo Jackson was. The ONE rule we had playing Tecmo Bowl was you couldn't play the Raiders. There's a reason for that. It rhymes with Bo Jackson.
Yo, this from an old head, I want to say thanks to you young fellas for showing some love to the brotha's from yesteryear. Keep doing what you do guys. Peace!
Bo was a great baseball player. An all-star. Tremendous power, tremendous speed, a great arm. He had it all. As an RB he was absolutely one of the best. Watch the 30 for 30.
Then you do not know baseball. He never deserved a all star spot. But the fans bought into the BS hype. He was a below average baseball player. I bet you did not know only 1 time in his career was his BA above his teams BA. When he retired in baseball he was only ranked as the #30 KS baseball player of all time & considering KS franchise had only been around 20 years at that point. Not so good. As far as a RB goes, just for perspective. He ranks at over 3000 all time for yards rushed by a NFL RB. There was a reason he would only get 14 carries per game. He would tire by end of game. Terrible blocker & pass receiver. John Madden said he could never learn the play book. 4 years he averaged 695 yards per year & 4 TD's per year.
@@BBBYpsi Ok, so I suppose he wasn't a very good athlete and sucked at both sports. Good to know 🙂
He and Herschel Walker were just freaks. I think Bo had more agility than Walker, but both guys were SPECIMENS.
The only two guys ive ever seen that were that big, and still have OLYMPIC type speed.
@@chocolatetownforever7537 Bo did not have Olympic type speed. Walker did.
@@sydboskiWhat are you talking about? Bo had more speed than Herschel. I don’t think that he ever ran in the 100 or the 200 but his 40 time was 4.10, Herschel’s was 4.35.
Bo was the greatest athlete ever. All Star baseball player and a top 10 all time RB in the NFL.
The best athlete I have ever seen, and he played in an era of some fantastic athletes.
Special player and a special time. He was incredible at Auburn as well.
Yup him and wilt chamberlain best athletes ever! Too bad he got hurt
The athletes overall are better today, but the best ever played in the mid/late 80’s. Bo Jackson, Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, Mike Tyson, Lawrence Taylor.
Greatest athlete I’ve ever watched during my life. His baseball abilities were unmatched in an era loaded with hall of famers. Not sure we’ll ever see anyone like him again.
@@classicwaxsportscards9440 His baseball career stats were just average.
BO is the best athlete I have ever seen in my life. Dude was seriously the GREATEST. Watched him throw out a runner that tagged up on 3rd and BO caught the fly ball almost at the wall. He then proceeded to throw the runner out at home plate on a laser throw. Crazy. Then when he ran over the BOZ.. epic
Brian Bosworth got wrecked!!!
Flat footed at that.
Boz was never the same after that.
I remember the hype leading up to that game, the Boz vs Bo, Mono y Mono, who would come out on top. Bo got the best of him on that play. Bo Jackson could've been a top 5 all time running back in the league had he not got hurt. I'm not a raider fan, but he was must watch tv when he played.
I worked at the LA Coliseum from 1983 to 1991. Watching Bo & Marcus Allen in the same backfield was incredible!
Man...that's awesome. That means you saw the Olympics also???
Crazy part is...football was his hobby, he thought of himself as a baseball player that played football in the off season....would have been HoF in both sports if he stayed healthy...he was a better baseball player than running back🤯
One of the most exciting athletes of all time. I had the pleasure of meeting him many times as my brother played for the Royals. Many people do not know this about Bo and is crazy to me but his passion is hunting. He is straight country lol! There are some videos on youtube of Bo hunting. If I remember correctly he uses a cross bow. How the deer do not notice Bo up in the tree stand idk but after he made a kill I am not kidding he was almost in tears saying it has been almost a year since he had made a kill and it felt so good? It was kind of weird lol!
@@dianebaker7714 so would it be Bo hunting, or just Bow hunting?
@@dianebaker7714 that's a good little documentary
@@dianebaker7714 to this day he also does a charity bicycle ride around his entire home state of Alabama. Bo is just da shít.
I disagree. Not yo take take away from the baseball career but he was amazing with a football in his hands
That game in the Kingdome against the Seahawks, when he (80+ yards) sprinted down the sideline & into the tunnel, HOLY HELL! 🍻🇺🇸🙏🏼🇺🇸🍻
I was about 8 when Bo burst on the professional sports scene. Even though I was a Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Cubs fan, I was a huge fan of Bo (like everyone at the time). When he went down, it rocked both the NFL and MLB. It was like a collective mourning. We all knew we had just been robbed of what was likely to be an all time great in not just one, but two major sports.
Side note: even video game maker Tecmo recognized the awesomeness. If you played as the Raiders on Tecmo Bowl (1989), all you had to do was a handoff to Bo, and you basically walked in the endzone every time.
The only way you could counter Bo was by picking the Giants and using LT. once you figured out the timing, he could block every field goal and extra point too. Damn, I miss the early 90s.
Go Cubs
Walk-in every damn time!👊🏾
Don't forget running straight backwards with Montana, and throwing to either rice or Taylor for a guaranteed TD. 100yds all day
Bo was a much better baseball player than Prime. He’s the only player to be an all star in both sports.
Deion sanders also did it
@@vin9277yeah but even Deon said Bo was better. Bo could hit the curve and Deon couldnt
Walter Payton!!! That dude never went down and he played many years where he was the only offense the Bears had. He played 11 years without missing a game. The dude was a legend.
Sweetness WAS the GOAT RB...for sure...loved that man
The best football player ever. All around talent. Was our best passer for years. Seriously
Walter was amazing
Agreed. How was his baseball career ?
Is he in 2 hall of fames?
Guys there were 2 sport guys long before Bo and Deon. I think Bo was by far the best of them. He was at least as good at his position in FB as Deon, and Bo was a much better baseball player. Years ago the Knicks had a guy named Dave Debusschere who was a 6'6" forward, and also pitched 1 or 2 seasons in the Majors for the White Sox. He then played a couple more years of minor league ball and then stopped and concentrated on playing BB and also coached. There is an old TV western called The Rifleman. The star was a guy named Chuck Connors. Before he hit it big as an actor, he played 1st base for the Cubs and played for the Celtics too. There are others as well. Truth is fellas there ain't nothing much being done today that hasn't been done before. That's not me hating, just being truthful. As an older guy I appreciate you guys looking into some of the older players. Keep learning. Y'all be safe.
I'm 54. Bo was by FAR the best all around athelete I ever saw. Probably the best RB I ever saw. Barry a very close second. A guy who has a great highlight tape and who never gets enough discussion with the best RBs is Earl Campbell. Amazing power back you guys should check out.
What could have been. He had the agility and speed to make guys miss, but his tackle breaking ability, was at a whole other level from any RB ive ever seen in 40 years of watching football.
Payton, Brown, and Campbell are the only ones even in the same ballpark.
@@chocolatetownforever7537 I'd put OJ in that group as well if we ignore his off the field troubles. OJ was on a 4x100 world record relay team so the dude had serious speed and his moves were amazing as well. The thing people will probably say is that he didn't break as many tackles but he was actually very powerful and hard to bring down as well. As for others, I think Dickerson is just outside that group and of course Barry had the best moves and was the quickest. Emmitt was always pointed in the right direction and seemed to get an extra yard on every carry. Lots of great ones out there over the years.
@@buckstraw925 Fair enough about OJ, but I feel he was more of a speed and agility guy than a tackle breaker.
I just want to make it clear that the guys I named were in reference to the sentence before, about tackle breaking only.
Guys like Barry, Emmitt, and others, as RBS, were absolutely right there, and one can make an argument for being the best of all time.
I just think Bo was different in terms of his athleticism.
@@chocolatetownforever7537 Right, OJ wasn't a top 10 tackle breaker but he was far better at it then he was given credit for. I was talking more about the pure athletic ability and looked at the speed factor. Anyway, Bo was above all them for pure physical attributes.
Barry Sanders had the best moves and that's it. There were far better RBs that played the position completely. The greatest RB of all time doesn't get taken out on 3rd downs & goal line when his team needs him the most.
Bo was the type of athlete you came to watch. We are still here watching, but not just because of his athletic feats. He is a top notch guy that has possibly soared higher off the field, than he did on the field. Much respect Mr. Jackson!!
80’s VHS “Bo know’s Bo”…..I wore that tape OUT as a kid. He’s the greatest all around athlete I’ve ever seen, THE STANDARD for greatness.
Bo was UNBELIEVABLE!!! He was everyone's sports hero... even if he wasn't on your team...TRAGIC that he had his career cut short by injury...and I'm fully in Broncos Country---only Raider I didn't HATE😁
check out all the "Bo Knows" advertisements from back in the day Nike
you can't convince me that he WOULDN'T dominate today...he was timeless
Terrell Davis... I was totally privileged to watch...also career cut short with injury...
I had a boyfriend that went to Auburn when Bo was there so I got to see him play college ball and he just dominated. He was amazing. He’s also an amazing humanitarian here in Alabama today. Bo knows strength and compassion!
Very true I watched a very good interview with Bo recent one, down to earth to say the least good-hearted guy. Bo knows a good heart ❤️.
Don't forget Frank Thomas went to Auburn too!
@@JohnSmith-zw8vp A monster of an athlete!
War Eagle!
Bo was the All star baseball player. Deion went to a loaded braves team. People forget all the HOFs Deion played with. On those Royal teams, it was just Bo.
You forget George Brett was on that KC team too!
The amazing thing about Bo as a running back is that he was a power back and a speed back at the same time. He could lower his shoulder and knock a defender on his butt. Then, immediately turn on the afterburners and blow the DB's away.
I enjoyed watching this through y’all, but don’t ever question the athleticism of Bo Jackson! He was a GOD among men! The best pure athlete EVER!
I feel bad for the people who didn’t live this era .. us in our 40s and up we remember how dope Bo was
I was at that game vs the Bengals when Bo got hurt. It made my heart sink. He came and was gone in the blink of an eye.
Call it bias or nostalgia or whatever you want but no was the effin man! I know these are young guys watching these videos and I like how they recognize and respect what they are seeing. If they knew the full context behind it all and combined with the emotion of the whole country watching! Bo is the living definition of the word " phenomenon ".
Deon was a decent baseball player and HOF football player. Bo would have been the first person to be a HOF in two sports if he didnt get hurt. Guy was just so much better than everyone else and even other players just shook there head.
100% agree.
Bo was the greatest athlete I've ever seen in my 65 years on this earth!
Same here. 30 years later and I've still never seen anything like him. And he really did not work out or train much at all.
"Keith, Ah have nevah seen an ath-a-lete lack Bo Jackson in mah LAHFF!!!" -Bob Costas doing an impression of ABC college football analyst Frank Broyles, according to a 1980s book by William Goldman. Absolutely true.
Strong as Jim Brown, fast as Barry Sanders. Nowhere near as good a baseball player (Deion might actually have been the better hitter and baserunner), but good enough to make the All-Star team. A game-changer in one sport, an All-Star in the other. All until…
The poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote "of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'it might have been'." But Whittier was wrong. The saddest words are "avascular necritis".
Or possibly, "I'm fine. I'll play next week", which is what Bo told OJ Simpson while being interviewed for NBC after the Divisional playoff win against the Bengals. (Next week: Buffalo-51, Raiders-3. Bo: NFL career over. Hearts broken.)
As the Vision said, "a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts". But damn.
NFL fan Redskins from the early 80s from
Auckland New Zealand.Older brother played College football for Cal Berkeley in the early 90s.But Bo Jackson when your a freak of nature generated that much power or thrust where his leg came out of that tackle and mislodged those joints?Its just a freak accident everyone has to accept.
Not only did that squad have Bo and Marcus Allen in the backfield, they also had Tim Brown at WR.
but still couldn't win a SB
@@larzakalazerath6655 no QB in a division with Elway and Marino in the AFC too. Wasted talent
@@GeorgeTropicana The NFL is full of these stories. Many grate players stuck on bad teams. That's what started free agency to become what it is today but some players still get wasted in there rooky contract either with a terrible team and or terrible coach. Being at the right place at the right time is so very prevalent.
That 1990 Raiders team was absolutely loaded with talent....scored over 30 points once that whole season....ONCE! (Vs Detroit on MNF).
Yes but he was a back up wr. He was more of a punt returner
Don't know if anyone mentioned it, but Bo came back from hip replacement surgery and played baseball with an artificial hip for a season or so... he would play a full season of basball, then join the Raiders halfway through the football season. Sanders was very good, but not nearly the basball player Bo was. Bo was an all star in both sports. 😊
Bo is fantastic.
Barry Sanders highlights would be cool, or Pavel Datsyuk of the NHL. Diggin’ the channel. Keep up the good work!
Bo was the only player to play in both an All-Star Game and a Pro Bowl. Best athlete of my lifetime.
I get a kick out of these young men knowing football from before their time. Seeing #55 and "That's Bosworth" is cool. Noticing #32, Marcus Allen, out there. Everybody loved Bo, even Chiefs fans. He was that good, all recognized his greatness. I don't know the exact cause of his hip injury, but he stretched the human genome to its limits with his size, speed and power, combined. For us older fans, he was the next Earl Campbell, only faster.
They did not notice that Bo was running OVER the best Safeties of the time... he ran over Ronnie Lott and he ran over Steve Atwater; both of those guys were as legit as you can get and Bo ran through them(( remember Atwater changed Okoye's entire career with one hit))
If you grew up in the 80s/90s and played Tecmo Bowl, you knew to play the Raiders and Bo Jackson.
You guys should do a reaction to Eric Dickerson. Not many of the younger generation know about him but I think he still holds the rushing record for most yards in a single season at around 2100. I think he ran the 100 yard dash in like 9.5 or 9.6 seconds and the world record is like 9.1 or something. That guy was an amazing running back.
They for sure need to do Eric Dickerson bro was nasty asfk with the Jerry curl 😂😂 a real problem on the field
@@minagiiyamaguchi bump the curl, the goggles fam🤣
Dickerson ran a blazing time of 9.4 while in high school he was the Class 1A 100 yd dash state champ.
He should have never left the Rams. That offensive line was perfect for him. I know the Rams didn't pay what he deserved but he would have broke many more records.
I also never seen a running back who could straight-arm tacklers like he could.
Maybe the most overlooked great player.
Amen Bo & Sanders. I was lucky growing up watching them play Football & Baseball!!! Happy to relive these moments thanks to these vids. TY!
Bo Jackson said he never worked out or went to the weight room. Dude is just a natural athlete. He also had one of the strongest cannons to ever play baseball. He threw a guy out at home who tagged up from third from the wall flat footed.
I got to watch Bo in person when he played at Auburn….. He has always been an amazing athlete and so much fun to watch. You watch in amazement every single time.
I remember the tv commercials with Dennis Leary and Bo Jackson. “I’m bringing Bo and his big bad hip…” Bo was a unique one of a kind athlete. So glad I got to see him play…
My dad had a "Bo Knows" tank top
They should have had his college highlights. Bo once had 176 yds and 3 TDs in the first qtr of a game.
Check out ESPN’s 30 for 30 on Bo…great episode including info about him growing up.
Great interview great guy good human being.
My favorite part is when the old Auburn baseball coach is standing at home plate in their stadium and pointing out various buildings Bo had home runs hit. "that dorm is about 475 feet, Bo hit that about halfway up. That building further out is about 550 feet, Bo shorthopped that one."
Thanx.... I'mma check that out 😎👍
You should watch ESPN’s 30 for 30 on Bo Jackson. It is an awesome thing to watch. If he had gotten his hip looked at appropriately right away his career would not have been cut short.
Freak... Show.
True story:
When Bo was a freshman, I saw him play against Nebraska in Lincoln. Nebraska had a very good OLB - All Conference, second team All American, went on to play about 5-6 years in the NFL. Dude was no punk. No one outside the state of Alabama knew about Bo yet.
Well, Bo had an education for their ass. He STEAMROLLED that stud linebacker. Ran his ass over like he was a blocking dummy.
Fast forward several decades. I'm sitting in a local dive bar. The ESPN 30 for 30 featuring No was on TV. I was telling the guy I was drinking with about that story, when another guy a few seats down groans and grumbles.
I asked him what was the matter. The guy at the bar WAS that linebacker. He told me he thinks of that play every time he hears the name Bo Jackson.
I'm sure there are lots of guys who share that same sentiment.
His school records will NEVER be broken. He had more yards in 3 years than any other RB for that college has ever ran in 4. They will NEVER be broken. He was to college fb what gretzky was to hockey.. his numbers are so high that it's inconceivable anyone else will come close. The guy who holds 2nd all time there is like 2500 yards behind him lol.. an entire seasons worth of running
Bo was the greatest EVER !! He played football for fun after baseball
Bo Knows - Best athlete I've ever seen.
I was in the Kingdome for 'The Throw". He fired a bullet from the left field warning track, gunning down the Mariners speedster, Harold Reynolds, at the plate with a perfect throw. It's on all the baseball highlight reels. At the time, I just shook my head and said to myself there's no way he just did that.
Reynolds stood on the field like wait did that just happen and stared at Bo.
There's no video proof that he actually did do it? Show me a video of him actually throwing the ball!
I'm a Bama fan, but Bo is one of my favorite athletes ever. His first hit in MLB is unreal - ground ball to 2nd, beats the throw to first.
We know what an incredible athlete Bo was, but he’s also an incredible human being, so generous! Secret is out, he just paid for all the funerals of the children and teachers who were killed in the mass school shooting in Texas! A beautiful humble giving man!!☮️❤️
I'm from KC, loved watching Bo with the Royals when you could get into a game for about $7 upper deck, then in the later innings move on down to the seats behind home plate. Nobody checked your ticket back then. It was a real shame watching his last football run when he got injured in the playoffs against the Bengals, it confirmed what every Royals fan feared would happen. He could've played baseball for 15 years hitting 25-30 HR's a year and been a hall-of-famer.
Yes, Bo was the best athlete to ever walk the Earth. Ironically, his career was ended because during a tackle he was so strong that he ripped his bone out of its hip socket shattering it. The amount of force needed to do something like that is unfathomable.
Bo is the un-crowned G.O.A.T
We probably will never see a natural athlete like Bo ever again. Nobody compares to him. Watch more Bo. There is really great highlights on TH-cam.
Bo Jackson in Tecmo Bowl…..unstoppable
Bo Jackson and Ken Griffey Jr. are the 2 top athletes in professional sports that unfortunately had their careers cut very short by injuries... but yet are both HOF players in every aspect of the sports they played.
Griffeys career wasn't cut short. He got injured from time to time but still put in 22 seasons
gale sayers was the most talented football player whose career was cut short by injuries. youngest to make it into the HOF
I would argue grant hill too.
Ken Griffey career cut short? Lol dude played 20 + yrs & top 5-10 in homers all time.
Everyone forgets my all time fav the greatest lead off man ever, so good he was told to stop hitting hr, s that they needed him on base where he could wreak havoc
Bo Jackson was one of the fasted men in the NFL. Opposing coaches would tell you, that every time the man touched the ball, you had to just hold your breath because he could literally break it and go all the way every single time.
He was incredible.
Bo is the most ridiculous athlete I've ever seen. He was a Pro Bowler in football AND an All Star in baseball in the same year. Meaning, he didn't just play two sports, he was one of the best in both sports, at the same time.
Thank you for reminding the younger generation of something that has only happened once and not since. If that fact alone doesn't make him the greatest athlete of all time, wth! Bo was also a very humble man,.
Bo knows everything. I used him always in super techno bowl
Ever wonder what made Bo have the God given speed, strength, fast twitch and stamina. His siblings were good athletes but Bo was a class of his own. We may never know why he was so special
He told the story once. He was playing in the sewers and got some green sticky ooze stuck on him, after that he grew ten folds and had 10 fold strength.
@@zanatosprime3460 that's about as good an explanation as we ever get
Funny thing is his stats would be insane if he didn't miss training camp and the first couple games of each year because he was playing in the MLB at an all-star level.
The most complete running back I've ever seen was Walter Payton, he could run, pass, catch and block like no other running back I have ever seen.
He was great at throwing on the half back option as well.
@@ckobo84 Sure was, I think he had 8 touch down passes to add to his resume.
him and jim brown for me. You cant go wrong with either.
Marshall Faulk
I love when younger giys like yourselves take an interest in the older guys like this . Im 45 and i watched him up until he got hurt . Was great in both sports and wouldve probably been in the HOF in both sports if he stayed healthy. U should look up Barry Sanders too! Two of my favorite RBs of all time!
A friend of mine played linebacker at a high school that went up against Bo's every year.
He said Bo frequently got around him because he couldn't catch him...but when he did catch him, Bo just ran right over him.
A guy I know played linebacker at Alabama. He caught a Bo Jackson knee to his forehead trying to tackle him and said he was out cold for a good minute or two.
Best all around athlete ever man. Mad skills
Bo was better than Prime Time, in both sports
BIG FACTS!!! Deion was a beast of a football player and a very good baseball player...no doubts about that. Bo was a beast in both sports. Consider this...we're watching a video about his accomplishments and he only played 3 seasons in the NFL and 8 seasons in MLB due to a one in a million injury.
I like what y'all said about the current players, being double drafted...but there will never be another bo Jackson, he was built different
And look at his track & field performances. 10.39 100m, 13.81 110m hurdles, 6'9" high jump, 24'8" long jump, 48'9" Triple Jump, 50 ft shot and 149 foot discus. Insane.
4.13 40 yard at combine, still the record, today.
@drsus0 @drsus0 Bo never did the NFL combine. His supposed 4.13 came from a local Auburn combine. There is no reason we should take this seriously. There is no way to verify the time or even the accuracy of the equipment. Given all the fastest sprinters have clocked around the low 4.2 range makes it fairly obvious the 4.13 didn't happen. Even Usain Bolt clocked a 4.22. There is no universe in which Bo was faster over any distance as Usain Bolt.
@@MrKT410 not the NFL official combine but he did run it w NFL scouts and his whole team there … and Bo and his coach and all those there corroborated it all. It was done electronically (thankfully because the hand stop watches had him at 4 flat) . So unless we’re calling Bo (who corrected the myth that it was 4.12) , his coach and the scouts there liars …
What, he couldn't pole vault?
Finally someone other than me & a small few with common sense. Bo was one of my childhood hero's BUT, as I've grown older & have experienced life & not a child anymore, I realized the Bo is a liar about his 4.13 40-yard dash. And to correct you, Bo's fastest legal FAT 100m time was only a 10.44 & not the windaided 10.39 Google keeps posting. No track athletes talk about their illegal winded times bc they don't count. Anyway I'm glad to see that you call BS about Bo's nonsense 4.13 "electric" time when the NFL didn't have that technology until 1999 & Bo left to the NFL in 1985-1986.
Bama fan here and it pains me to say it, but Bo Jackson was the best RB ever. If he hadn't gotten hurt, he would have broken every NFL record there is for RB's.
Bo Jackson was unstoppable in Techmo Bowl!🏈🏈🏈
Bo was an absolute superstar! Nobody had seen that kind of speed at that size before. I think he still holds the record for fastest 40 in Combine history at 4.13 if memory serves. May have been 4.12. Check out Bullet Bob Hayes when you get a chance! I think he was the closest to Bo's speed and size
Bob Hayes was faster than Bo.
We are so proud of Bo Jackson in Alabama. Auburn Tiger or Crimson Tide fans- we all yelled for Bo whatever sport or team he played for. He’s a fantastic man off the field as well. That always matters.
Neon has done nothing close to Bo'
I beg to differ with you there he's in a category nobody else is he has been both NFL championship and MLB championship games nobody else has done that in history. He played for Atlanta which they lost but then he won the 2 super bowls.
@@ericlittle162 yea but he was just a decent baseball player while Bo was a beast on the diamond
This statement is asinine
Can’t agree with that brother
@@Kojak024 when you use logic like that I'm pretty sure that bo couldn't cover one whole side of a field and shut that down like Dion did they were both special athletes and both talented in their own ways. You got to remember Dion played both sides of the ball whether he was running it ,playing wide receiver slot receiver or returning punts kickoffs he played everywhere pretty much. As far as skilled positions Bo did not don't get me wrong. I think they're both incredible athletes just in their own niche. End of debate.
I'm a few years older than you gentleman - let me tell you just what was so amazing about Bo Jackson.
I saw it all from his freshman year in college where they beat alabama in the Iron Bowl for the 1st time in 11 years... Auburn people then had HOPE.
Tampa Bay Bucs owner held the 1st pick in Draft & wanted him so he set up a visit to Tampa that got Bo kicked out of his last year of NCAA baseball - he hated tampa bay so bad that he went to baseball instead pf football - he had to play in AA Memphis and worked his way to Majors. Then The Raiders came calling the next season & he played football "as a hobby" - that's what the man said - a hobby like fishing or hunting.... !
On the football field he was BY FAR the most exciting player in the NFL. He would RUN OVER players BIGGER than him and outrun players smaller than him.... not the other way around... he was THAT good.
Dude was my favorite athlete growing up. I never got to see him play in the NFL in person, but I saw him a bunch of times with the Royals. The best.
Also. Bo never lifted weights or worked out. I actually watched him when he broke the bat twice in KC. And his playing FB in Oakland
I’m not even a raider fan, & this guy would have been the leader of RBs easily if he hadn’t gotten hurt guys! This dude was SOOO talented it was crazyyy. In baseball he would throw you out almost from the wall, look it up. Just a serious freak of nature! Never seen it sense
Trying to tackle Mr. Jackson must’ve been like bodysurfing and he was the wave…he took you for a ride…Respect…
I'm loving these young brothers reaction it's Golden!💯👊🏿✊🏿😁✌🏿😎
Bo was way better than Dion...but Bo got hurt & that's the only reason why he isn't in both Hall of Fames.
Bo Jackson was awesome. He was at Auburn when I was in high school. I remember him very well and I was so sad when he got hurt. What a lot of people don't know about his injury is he almost died that night! What really ended his career with that hip injury was it severed the artery that supplies the hip with blood. When he told the coach and the doctor what happened they didn't even believe him. He went home that night and almost died he almost bled to death. He was something else that's for sure. He would have been a Hall of famer all the way if he had a full career. Thank you guys you guys are great 👍
Bo didn't show up in the NFL until after the baseball season was done! Man's was like 6-8 games of greatness!
That Dion vs Bo game was crazy. Bo hit 3 homeruns. Late in the game he dove for a liner that Deon hit. Missed and badly injured his hip. That was the same hip that caused his NFL retirement a year later. Deon hit an inside the park homerun. Bo was supposed to bat the following inning and try to hit his 4th homerun but he had to be removed from the game.
In his first game back from injury he hit a homerun; meaning he hit 4 homeruns in 4 straight at bats tying a Major League record.
Bo truly was built different.
the only player to make the pro bowl and the MLB all-star game. Only athlete close was Jim Thorpe. He's from MaCalla Alabama not Birmingham. he got hurt in a playoff game against Cincinnati, a dude ran him down and when he tackled him he ripped his hip out of joint and it tore the artery and they didn't know it until it was to late.
Bo still played Baseball for a few years after the injury, with an Artificial Hip. Crazy. Bo was a Pro Bowl Football player and an All Star Baseball player. Had he stayed healthy possibly could have made Hall of Fame in two sports. Or imagine had he played just one or the other where his body could fully adapt to the sport. Tampa Bay had the 1st pic that year he came out of college and tricked him into visiting their facility which lost his eligibility to play Baseball. That was the deciding factor for him to say he was playing pro baseball over football but raiders drafted him anyway in the 7th and talked him into playing both. So raiders got the projected #1 overall pick in the 7th. Crazy
Another great that sometimes gets overlooked because he was injured after 6 years, was the great Gale Sayers. As a young man, he was the guy we loved to watch the most.
Some of those guys Bo was running right over in those highlights were known as the hardest hitters in the league at the time.
Bo was so good he forced the Raiders to move Marcus Allen to blocking fullback.
And that Family Guy/Tecmo Bowl episode was only a slight exaggeration. I played that game all the time and it was pretty damn close to being just like that! 🏴☠️ 🏈
You will never see another guy like Bo Jackson. Kids don't grow up playing multiple sports like that. Go back and watch Ricky Henderson
Yeah John Elway too, he told the Colts before the draft that if they didn’t trade him, he would go play for the Yankees. True story.
He hit three home runs in one game against Deion and the Yankees
He was a true legend…so much fun to watch. I still say y’all should react to Romanowski….who I think was the meanest SOB in football !!
Don't forget Dion Sanders. The best cornerback ever, other teams refused to throw his way. He was so good he limited the other team's offense to minus one wide receiver. He played pro baseball as well. He was a good line drive hitter with occasional power, maybe a 2.70 or so hitter and he could steal as many bases as he wanted. Fast in the outfield as well. Maybe the 2nd best pro overall behind Bo Jackson. I think he made the all-star team in baseball one or more years. I believe he played in a world series or playoff game for Cincinnati, then a football game for Atlanta on the same day.
He wasn’t the best CB ever. Close, but not the best. Deion was an atrocious tackler. Plenty of great CB’s effectively removed a WR from the opposing offense.
I’ll never forget when he was playing RF for the white sox and caught a ball on the track then threw a frozen rope to third to double up a player tagging from second. My brother and I looked at each other with our jaws dropped. We still talk about it to this day. I’ve never seen a stronger throw.
The highlights with the white sox are all post hip replacement. The dude hit a HR first at bat post hip replacement and could still throw guys out from the OF.
One clip said Bo ran with the power of Earl Campbell. That is so true. You guys should do a video watching Earl Campbell. Amazing!
Great video, Bo Jackson was a ridiculous athlete. Probably the best ever. If you're looking for crazy multi sport athletes Dave Winfield was drafted by 4 leagues (NBA, NFL, MLB and ABA) Danny Ainge was the only ever high schooler to be first team all american in 3 sports (baseball, basketball, football) and just for pure freakish athlete is Christian Okoye, he didn't play football until he was like 22-23 (he was trying to be an olympian in discus) and a few years later he was the most feared RB in the NFL, 6'1" 260lbs 4.3 40, his career was short because he didn't get in the NFL until he was 27 I think.
Bo Jackson. Wow. Probably my favorite athlete. I would love to see your reaction to Marcus Depree
Best athlete I've ever seen. He also ran track at auburn and his 60m record was only broken recently. He high jumped 7' in high school. He was qualifying for the 1992 winter Olympics bobsled team.
Jamaica, we got a bobsled team!
Deion???. Deion was obviously great in football, he was also a decent, baseball player.... But Bo....Bo was obviously a great football player, BUT also an amazing baseball player
.. Bo was the only one that was an All Star in BOTH sports..
If the injury never happened, bo legit would've been a HOF'er both sports!..
These are the times that you actually had to see these guys play live to truly understand just how special Bo was!
You haven't seen Bo's career stats. They are average at best. There is no way in hell a part time player was going to make the HOF.
Bo Jackson, Mike Tyson, and Michael Jordan…the late 80s/early 90s were a special time.
Only athlete ever to make an All Star game in 2 sports. Also is the only person in NFL history with 2 90 yard touchdown runs. I did a couple of reports on him through my years at school. One of the most interesting athletes ever. Just a straight up freak of an athlete. Y'all need to watch his ESPN 30 for 30: Bo Knows.
Gentlemen please keep up the good work. I would love to see your reaction to Earl Campbell. Size, speed, moves had everything. And Walter Payton was the best!
I'd recommend watching a video of the greatest running backs of all time. There are so many that don't get the credit that they deserve. Even guys like Chuck Muncie and George Rogers-- two guys whose careers were cut short by injuries. And of course, Jim Brown, Gale Sayers, and Payton. Brown was Bo Jackson about thirty years earlier. Sayers was probably the most elusive until Barry Sanders came along. Payton did everything.
I think I heard this story from Bo's autobiography: In an SEC baseball game, he hit two homers. The second one went into a ~80 foot centerfield light; people swore at impact the ball was still going up. In his last at-bat, he hit a double and got booed.