Really interesting and well done documentary on Bo Jackson. Was going to post this in the Other Sports sub forum, but it might get lost in there.
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"He was a phenomenon, but that phenomenon was so brief, that he wasn't really able to put anything lasting together. So if you're not old enough to have seen it, then there's no real reason to come across it anymore. He doesn't hold any records, he didn't win any titles, he didn't even really win that many individual awards because he shared time between the two sports. So what you're really left with is a few fleeting images."
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2nd best 30 for 30 after Terry Fox. Did not know Bo was such a beast of a athlete. Like the sports marketing / player endorsement deal piece and how Bo and Nike was really the first major deal of its kind.
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lol I have watched this 30 for 30 on Bo at least 3 times. An absolute phenomenal athlete.
The multiple true stories that followed him to from High school to, Auburn, The LA Raiders and KC Royals that have become legendary about Bo Jackson is worth watching this alone.
Jackson to this day is my all time favorite Raider. He was like a comet to the NFL.
Far, far too short of a career but man everything he did left you in awe.
Bo Jackson still has the fastest 40 time ever ran and the guy was not a little speed bug he was 6'1 230lb. Jackson was a freak of an athlete pure fluid power.
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You know what I find funny? ESPN does a superb job on the 30 for 30 series (Outside The Lines is another one), the same can't be said for other garbage on the network like SportsCentre and First Take. I have watched every single 30 for 30 except the Bo Jackson one, people keeping telling me its the best one in the whole series. The next one in the series is called (Date still TBA), Spano vs The Islanders. I'm really looking forward to that one.
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You know what I find funny? ESPN does a superb job on the 30 for 30 series (Outside The Lines is another one), the same can't be said for other garbage on the network like SportsCentre and First Take. I have watched every single 30 for 30 except the Bo Jackson one, people keeping telling me its the best one in the whole series. The next one in the series is called (Date still TBA), Spano vs The Islanders. I'm really looking forward to that one.
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Drake I would love ESPN do a 30 for 30 on Bobby Orr or Neely.
Speaking Orr that is what Jackson was like, everytime he was on the football field you would watch because he would be a play away from doing something remarkable same as when he was in the outfield or up to bat and both were once in a lifetime players that were cut down in their prime.
We never saw the best years of Orr or Jackson.
Jackson made people say how did he friggin do that, all the time.
I'm glad I got to watch Bo Jackson play when i was at the peak of my baseball interest as a kid. Him breaking the bat over his knee was such a vivid memory for me. Never really watched him play football, but I loved this show. The added bonus is that he comes across as such a "simple" man. He knows he was great, loves the memories, but enjoys simple pleasures and a quieter life.
The Two Escobars is still my favourite 30 for 30 by far.
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I can understand him wanting to play 2 sports at a high level, but he should have chosen one. He wouldn't have had the injuries that he did and I think he could have been one of the all-time greats in whichever sport he went with.
Favorite Jackson moment: running over Brian Bosworth.
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Thanks so much for sharing this.
I've never watched any of these ESPN shows, but idolized Bo Jackson when I was young and this was a fantastic way to waste 90 minutes. What an amazing story.
Don't really follow NFL or MLB so I barely remembered him, obviously remember the "Bo knows" campaigns though. That was a very interesting to watch, didn't realize just how dominant he was. Shame that he couldn't have played 5+ more years and made the hall of fame in 2 sports.
At the age of sixteen, James played with the Winnipeg Monarchsjunior hockey team in the 1951 Memorial Cup (a loss). The Toronto Maple Leafs, who owned James' professional hockey rights, decided to move him to Toronto to play for the Toronto Marlboros, their top junior team. James would win the 1955 Memorial Cup playing with the Marlboros – only a few months after winning the CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian award. A few days after the Memorial Cup win, James also played his first NHL game with the Maple Leafs – ending a tremendous series of multi-sport and multi-league achievements within a five-month period.
There's a handful of guys who were drafted by multiple teams of different sports but only really known for playing in another. Like Tom Brady being drafted by the Expos in the 18th round but Scott Burrell was drafted by the Mariners in the first round (26th overall) in 1989, was persuaded not to play baseball fulltime and instead played some college basketball, re-entered the draft, selected in the 5th round by the Blue Jays in 1990 and finally drafted by the Hornets 20th overall in the NBA 1993 draft. The only person to be drafted in a first round in different sports I believe.
But for true multi-sports athletes, let's not forget Lionel Conacher.
Lionel Pretoria Conacher, MP (/ˈkɒnəkər/; May 24, 1900 – May 26, 1954), nicknamed "The Big Train", was a Canadian athlete and politician. Voted the country's top athlete of the first half of the 20th century, he won championships in numerous sports. His first passion was football; he was a member of the 1921 Grey Cup champion Toronto Argonauts. He was a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team that won the International League championship in 1926. In hockey, he won a Memorial Cup in 1920, and the Stanley Cup twice: with the Chicago Black Hawks in 1934 and the Montreal Maroons in 1935. Additionally, he won wrestling, boxing and lacrosse championships during his playing career. He and Carl Voss are the only players to have their names engraved on both the Grey Cup and Stanley Cup.
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ESPN 30 for 30 - Bo Jackson
