"You don't know Bo."
 

I'd forgotten just how great Bo Jackson was. Hope this 30 for 30 doesn't disappoint.

So far it's just ok.

Need more highlights

This shit just brings me back to my childhood. I wasnt a Chiefs fan in the 80's, i was an L.A Rams fan then they moved. haha anyways, i loved sports in general so, watching this shit reminds me of the good ole days

That started pretty slow, I'm a pretty big Bo fan and I got bored as hell.

Jason Whitlock is claiming on twitter that he beat Bo Jackson in the 40 yard dash in high school.

Are you a new follower of Whit?

yeah, is this a long standing claim?

Not this one in particular, but he regularly makes stupid claims. His long standing one is that he played QB for Michigan under Bo Schembechler but had to transfer amid NCAA violations.

It's mind-boggling how many people continuously ask him if he really played for Michigan. He enjoys making ridiculously claims and then watching people fall for it or get worked up over it.

I've heard him talk about the Michigan thing, I've asked people I know associated with U-M, they don't remember him at all. As far as the race with Bo, sounds like pure bs.

Maybe you're not understanding me. It's all BS. It's his shtick. Don't fall for it.

I understand.

BTW-Happy Chanukah!

Thanks. Bo Knows Chanukah.

"Here lies a ball player."

I'm not a Royals fan, but for those of you who are/were, was it hard to like Bo?


In the end, he was a Raider too.

Bo Jackson was the most exciting player I've ever watched wear Royals blue. Of course he was no George Brett in his career, but I just couldn't wait to watch him...whether he was throwing someone out, hitting a ball 450 feet, stealing a base, or scaling a wall.

I was pissed he went to the raiders. Of course, I would have loved for him to play across the parking lot.

I thought that was pretty well done, although not a ton of earth shattering info and moved pretty slow.

Where older Royals fans enthralled with Bo? Or was he an above average baseball player?

He really wasn't a complete baseball player, he struck out too much, but you had to watch because he would do crazy shit.

lol, it was a joke. He talked about that on his podcast with rich eisen. they all got a kick out of that. lol

People take everythign so serious.

Thanks for parroting what I said.

Yep. His highlights were off the hook, but he never came close to reaching his potential as a baseball player. To this day, I think he would have been a HOFer in either sport if he picked one and stuck to it, but by trying to do both, he ended up just being a footnote.

It's all a joke. Whitlock likes to make jokes like that. It's just what he does.

guys lol it's just a schtick Whitlock does...he's joking

Is Whitlock serious when he says that stuff or is he only joking? Does anybody know?

He was more fun to watch as Bo the athlete as he was Bo the baseball player

He's joking. He causes quite the stir though. It's kind of a schtick he has.

It was quite the scene when he came to KC as a faider. The crowd just went crazy. Throwing plastic footballs, baseballs on the field. Nuts. Still wish the Chiefs would have had the smarts to draft him the year after he snubbed TB.

Thanks for bogarting what I said. :rolleyes:









ROFL:D

The best baseball player ever, the throw out of Harold Reynolds in Seattle on a Friday night. The look on Darnell Coles face was priceless in the on-deck circle.

Used to drive me insane as a kid trying to make sense of it. I just couldn't understand how he could play in both places.

Still not sure I completely understand....

it's true...

barbeque was involved

Yeah whitlock did beat bo in the forty as in the forty hot dog race. Anywho Bo as a raider sucks but when he was with the royals he freaking rocked. damn i wish he and george had a team around them they could of been special

He trolls people for fun.

ROFL Let's not get carried away.

It was hard for me, but in the end God struck him down for being a Raider.

Yep, I loved him during baseball season but hated him during football season. Still, he's one of the greats

$#IT. When they replaying this?...

Was playing a couple hours ago.

Just looked it up, Wednesday 8:00 pm ET.

:mad:

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Bo's career NFL stats per game are similar to Larry Johnson's if Bo played entire seasons.

He is a GOD on Tecmo Super Bowl.

Bo's book, "Bo Knows' is one of my favorite sports biographies. It hit the perfect blend of borderline mythology and anecdotal evidence. Probably what got me knowing about Bo was Techmo Bowl. From there I had to see that actual guy which is what turned me on to football.

I watched the documentary last night, and while it wasn't as good as the book, I got to watch it with my kids and answer alot of questions for them. It was great nostalgia and a chance to revel in one of the last mythical sports figures ever. It is tough in the world of You Tube and helicopter parents and scouts for a mythology to grow in the imagination of the public like it did with Bo.

Anyone who wasn't around to see the man play in person, or old enough to remember his playing and watching it, can't comment on the sheer euphoria that was Bo Jackson.
A younger sports fan has never, nor will ever "experience" anything like him again. Yes, the greatest "what if", but was the most amazing "He did". And all with class and humility, something today's sports fans again, has never and will never experience again.

Caught the 30 for 30 last night...

I was at the game when Bo hit the longest home run at Royals stadium...it was amazing at how high the ball went. Seemed like a pop fly, but it just kept going up and up.

I worked at Royals/Chiefs stadiums back in 1986 and 1987 and I remember the first time that Bo came up from Memphis...he took some batting practice before the gates opened for that nights game. We all stopped to watch him. I remember him hitting one what seemed like 10ft short of the scoreboard in straight away center.

It's funny to think that a great athlete like that would play baseball in KC...that certainly wouldnt happen in this day and age. He'd have been a Red Sox or Yankee.

I'll never forget the time the camera zooms in on Bo playing outfield.
Between batters, Bo is scrutinizing the Bazooka Joe comic from his bubblegum.

With Bo, baseball was always an adventure. There was an excitement when he came to the plate no other player could match; even when he struck out it was amazing.

I was at the game he ran over Rick Dempsey at home plate, I remember Dempsey tumbling backwards and landing outside the dirt circle but it looks he actually didn't go that far but at the time seemed like it.

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I think this post is from 09, but I remember copying and pasting it again from a thread in 05. It's one one of those events you had to see to know it was true. And to this day, it was one of the greatest shows of arm strength in baseball I've ever seen.

Just watched this and I thought it was awesome.

Bo was my first sports hero as a kid, but I forgot how special he was.

It got to the part where he was making arrows in his basement and then DVR stopped recording because it ran over in time due to stupid Heisman trophy ceremony.

Bo was exciting when at bat. Or when he finally tracked down a slow grounder to left field that went between his legs and he would throw it from the warning track to home plate.

Our season tickets were just past 3rd base. Got to see him miss balls constantly. Sucked at fielding.

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Bo threw to he wrong base a bunch struck out a ton and infielders refused to go to the outfield after balls because that trucker was running in hard.

I was just behind Darren Sproles in sprints in high school. We were on the same basketball team and raced every day at practice during our sprints. Just couldn't get over the hump and beat him. Now days...he'd beat me by a mile. Since ya know...he became a professional football player and I became a pot & cigarette smoking graphic designer who plays video games of professional football players.

If Bo didn't get hurt, he would have been right in his prime during the 1994 season when the Royals had a world class pitching staff - Cone, Appier, Gubiza.

Bo Jackson baseball scouting report:

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Touchdown, Bo Jackson! They made a shirt with that image from Tecmo Bowl, of him spiking the football in the end zone. I have it.

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Bo could simply do things other human beings can't do.