Vincent Edward " Bo " Jackson (born November 30, 1962) is a former American baseball and soccer player. He is the only athlete in history who is named All-Star in baseball and soccer, and one of the few who did so in two major sports. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time. While at Auburn University, Jackson won the 1985 Heisman Trophy, annually awarded to the best college footballers in the United States. Jackson was inducted into the College of Football Hall of Fame in 1996. Jackson was originally drafted first overall by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 1986 NFL Draft, but refused to play for the franchise. Jackson instead entered the draft of the following year, selected in the seventh round (overall 183) by the Los Angeles Raiders.
In 1989 and 1990, Jackson's name was known to be more than a sports fan through the "Bo Knows" advertising campaign, a series of ads by Nike, starring Jackson with musician Bo Diddley, promoting cross-training athletic shoes named Jackson.
After a 1991 hip injury in the field ended his soccer career, Jackson focused on baseball, and developed into another pursuit, including the completion of a Bachelor of Science in Child and Child Development at Auburn. In addition, Jackson appears in small roles as an actor, on TV shows like Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Married... with Kids , and movies like The Chamber .
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Jackson, the eighth of ten children, was born on November 30, 1962 and raised in Bessemer, Alabama, and named after Vince Edwards, his mother's favorite actor. His family describes him as a "boar pig", because he will always get into trouble. He attended McCalla, where he rushed for 1,175 yards as a run back as a high school student. Jackson hit twenty home runs in 25 games for McAdory's baseball team during his senior season. He is a champion of the country twice in the decathlon. Both times that he was a decathlon country champion, he built such a lead commanding lead before 1500 yards that he never competed in the show. "Distance is the only thing I hate about songs", he says. In 1982, Jackson made a public school record for indoor high jump (6'9 ") and double jump (48'8").
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Higher Education (1982-1986)
In June 1982, Jackson was elected by the New York Yankees in the second round of the 1982 Major League Baseball draft, but he instead chose to attend Auburn University on a soccer scholarship because he promised his mother that he would be the first in the family to go to the main college. He was recruited by head coach Pat Dye and then Auburn's assistant coach, Bobby Wallace. In Auburn, he proved to be an outstanding athlete both in baseball and football. He shared a backfield with quarterback Randy Campbell, Lionel "Little Train" James and Tommie Agee.
Baseball college
Jackson spent most of his senior season replaced by George Renick after being declared ineligible by the NCAA after a visit with Tampa Bay Buccaneers, which he believes is trying to sabotage his baseball career.
In his report, a spy stated that his only weakness was the lack of baseball experience. Spies said that he could be one of the great players of all time who forbid injuries. He suffered a minor shoulder injury early in his college football career, which did not cause him any problems in the long term. The scouts also noted that this was his first year playing baseball and he seemed to be "doing all kinds of players" and also stated he was "the best pure athlete in America today". This was in April 1985 when Bo was a 22 year old scholarship athlete at Auburn University trying to make a bigger name for himself than he already had in his soccer career. In this scouting report Jackson's value for the MLB team was only $ 200,000, far less than what he eventually brought home later in his short-lived career.
Statistics
College soccer
During his time playing for the Auburn Tigers football team, he ran for 4,303 yards of career, which is the fourth best performance in SEC history. Jackson ended his career with an average of 6.6 yards (6.0 m) per carry, which set the SEC record (at least 400 rush).
In 1982, Jackson's first year, Auburn played Boston College in Tangerine Bowl, where Jackson made a one-handed grab on the field of choice. Auburn went on to win the 33-26 game as Jackson rushed 14 times for 64 yards and 2 goals.
In 1983, as a freshman, Jackson rushed 1,213 yards (1,109 m) in 158 carry, averaging 7 yards per carry, which is 2 of the best single-season seasons in SEC history (at least 100 rush). In 1983 the Auburn-Alabama game, Jackson rushed for 256 yards at 20 rush (12.8 yards per carry), which at that time was the sixth most hasty meter earned in one game in SEC history and the best 2 yards per- average rush in the game (minimum 20 attempts) in SEC history. Auburn finished the season by winning the Sugar Bowl against Michigan, where Jackson was named Most Valuable Player. In 1984, Jackson's junior year (mostly Jackson missed due to injury), he earned the Most Valuable Player award in Liberty Bowl after defeating Arkansas.
In 1985, Jackson rushed for 1,786 yards which was the second best single season performance in SEC history. That year, he averaged 6.4 meters per rush, which at the time was the best single-season average in SEC history. For his performance in 1985, Jackson was awarded the Heisman Trophy in what was regarded as the closest winning margin ever in award history, winning over University of Iowa quarterback Chuck Long.
Jackson ended his career at Auburn with 4,575 multi-purpose yards and 45 total touchdowns, 43 rushed and 2 receiving, averaging 6.6 yards per carry. Jackson's 34 ball number officially retired at Auburn in a halftime ceremony on October 31, 1992. His is one of only three retirement numbers in Auburn. The others are the 1971 Heisman Trophy winner, Pat Sullivan number 7, and the number 88 of Sullivan's favorite teammate and recipient, Terry Beasley. In 2007, Jackson was ranked # 8 on 25 ESPN Best Players In the College of College Football History list.
Statistics
"Bo Over the Top"
On November 27, 1982, Jackson and Auburn Tigers found themselves fought with their rivals in the state of Alabama (7-3), at the Iron Bowl in Birmingham, Alabama. Auburn led 14-13 in the first half when Alabama raced back Paul Ott Carruth scored on an 8-yard touchdown run - and then Crimson Tide added a field goal to make it lead Alabama 22-14 in the 4th quarter. Auburn responded as Al Del Greco made a 23-yard field goal to make it a score of 22-17 in the 4th quarter. From Auburn's own 34-yard line, Bo Jackson and the company embarked on a long journey as he repented on September 4 and 1 in Alabama 42. Jackson, who ran 17 times over 114 yards during the Iron Bowl, continued to line up under his team. as he caught an 8-yard bait from quarterback Randy Campbell to the 1-yard Alabama line. During the huddle, Bo convinces Coach Dye to let him cross the offensive and defensive line because he is a 7 foot jumper in high school and the other team will not expect it. In the fourth minute with 2:26 remaining time in the game, Jackson completed the drive by going up for a one-yard touchdown run as Auburn (finished 9-3 in 1982) took a 23-22 win over Alabama and coach Paul "Bear" Bryant.
Path and college field
While at McAdory High School, Jackson competed as a sprinter, hurdler, jumper, thrower and decathlete. His 100 meter best time in high school was 10.44 seconds, but he would then run 10.39 in Auburn. He also ran a 100-yard run in 9.54 seconds. As a hurdler, he clocked 7.29 seconds in a 55m hurdle and 13.81 seconds in the 110m hurdles. In decathlon, it reaches 8340 points. In the jumping event, he has a personal best jump of 2.06 meters (6 feet, 9 inches) in a tall jump, 7.52 meters (24 feet, 8 inches) on a long jump and 14.85 meters (48 feet, 9 inches) in the double jump. As a thrower, he got a throw over 15.27 meters (50 feet, 1 inch) at the shooting point and 45.44 meters (149 feet, 1 inch) in the discus throw.
Jackson qualified for NCAA residents in a 100 meter run in his first year and second year. He thinks his career is on track and field, but running will not give him financial guarantees of MLB or the NFL, nor will he have enough time to train, given his other commitments. Going to NFL Draft 1986, Jackson ran 4.12 40-yard dash time. The dash was officially timely because the NFL Combine did not start electronically organizing the athlete's time until 1990.
Personal bests
Professional sports career
Baseball
Kansas City Royals
Jackson was selected by the first overall pick of the 1986 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but he refused to play for them because a visit to the team facility they said was NCAA-approved actually did not, causing him to miss the remnants of his last baseball school season. Jackson believes that the failure to get NCAA approval was intentional and was intended by Buccaneers to make him play football instead of baseball. He vowed not to sign a contract with Tampa Bay if they recruited him, but they went on. He retained his oath and chose to play baseball for the Kansas City Royals, the defending World Series champion, who had compiled it in the fourth round of the 1986 amateur draft. He spent 53 matches with Memphis Chicks, Royals' AA minor league class affiliates, and called for majors in September 1986. He made the Royals' list in 1987 and hit 22 home runs, with 53 RBI and 10 bases being stolen as the left fielder.
Jackson began to show his true potential in 1989, when he was elected to start for the American League All-Star team, and was named MVP game for his game in both offense and defense. At the top of the first inning, he captured Pedro Guerrero's 2-out drive into the center left field to save twice the way. Then he leads the first bottom - his first All-Star plate appearance - with the towering big house of Runner-Royce in the San Francisco Giants, 448 feet (137 m) in size. NBC-TV broadcaster, Vin Scully, exclaimed, "Look at that! Bo Jackson said hello!" Wade Boggs followed with his own home run, making them the first couple in the All-Star history to lead their team first with a back-to-back home run. In the 2nd inning, he beat the throw at the potential of a double game to push in the run of eventual victory. He then stole the second base, making him the second player in the All-Star Game history to hit home runs and steal bases in the same game (the first being Willie Mays). Jackson finished the game with two hits at four at-bats, one run score, and two RBI.
On June 5, 1989, Jackson barefooted a drive-line from the left field wall on a hit-and-run play against the Seattle Mariners. With Harold Reynolds who raced quickly from first base on the game, Scott Bradley's punches would be deep enough to score against most outfielder players. But Jackson, from the warning track, turned with flat feet and fired quickly at Bob Boone's catcher, who marked Reynolds. Jackson's throw reached Boone quickly. Interviewed for "Bo Jackson" episode of ESPN Classic Sportscentury, Reynolds admits that he thinks there's no way anyone would throw it on a deep journey into the middle-left gap, and was surprised to see his team-mates tell him sliding as he rounded off the third base.
On July 29, 1988, against the Baltimore Orioles, Jackson, hitting Jeff Ballard, turned to the home plate referee and attempted to call the time when Ballard was sending the ball. Timed out was not given, but Jackson recovered to swing and hit the field above the left field wall for the home run despite only actually seeing the ball as it was on the way to the plate.
Jackson struck 171 strikes in 1989 tying him for 10 most strikeouts in a season for left-handed dough since 1893. On July 11, 1990, against the Orioles, Jackson performed his famous "wall run", when he caught the ball six more steps from the wall. As he caught the ball with a full tilt, Jackson looked up and ran three steps along the wall, avoiding the clash and risk of injury from the fence.
During the 1990 season, Jackson hit HRs in four at-bats which tied the Major League record (held by some). The fourth came from Randy Johnson after hitting his first three before the task on the disabled list. Unwilling to pay $ 2,375 million in 1991 to rehabilitate his soccer injury, the Royals freed Jackson on March 18, 1991.
Chicago White Sox and California Angels
Jackson played two seasons with the Chicago White Sox, appearing in 23 games in 1991 and 85 games in 1993. It was with the White Sox that he made his only post-season appearance, at the 1993 American League Championship Series, which lost to Chicago Toronto Blue Jays in six games.
While with the Sox, Jackson promised his mother that once he returned from his hip replacement surgery he would hit his home run for him. Before he could return, his mother died. In his first at-bat after surgery, he hit the home run to the right of the field. Jackson has a ball wrapped in acrylic and bolted to a cupboard in his room, according to an interview on ESPN.
Jackson ended his career in 1994 with the California Angels. The season was cut short by the 1994-95 baseball strike, and Jackson decided to retire at age 32. "I have to get to know my family," he said. "It looks better for me than the $ 10 million contract."
In his eight baseball seasons, Jackson has an average career batting of 0.250, hitting 141 home runs and has 415 RBI, with an average of 0.474 slugging. His best year was 1989, with his efforts earning him an All-Star status. In 1989, Jackson ranked fourth in the American League in both home runs, with 32, and RBI, with 105.
Important achievement
- AL All-Star (1989)
- 1989 All-Star Game MVP
- 1993 AL Player of the Year Again, Awards
- 20-Home Run Seasons: 4 (1987-1990)
- 30-Home Run Seasons: 1 (1989)
- 100 RBI Season: 1 (1989)
MLB stats
Football
Jackson first compiled the whole in the NFL Draft 1986 by Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The controversy was plentiful before that resulted in Jackson never playing for the team.
In addition to giving Jackson the ultimatum to choose between sports, the Buccaneers management took Jackson in a private jet owner Hugh Culverhouse to visit with the team during his senior baseball season. Jackson was told by Buccaneers that the trip, which could cost Jackson for the feasibility of his remaining colleagues, has been vacated by the NCAA. Jackson was later told by his baseball coach at Auburn that the trip was considered a violation of the NCAA rules and that he immediately decided it was not eligible to play the rest of the baseball season. Jackson, annoyed that Culverhouse lied to him, insisting that he would never play for Buccaneer and that they could arrange it if they wanted to, but he would not sign if he was recruited. It is said that Jackson, who experienced what he called the best year playing baseball at school, made Buccaneers nervous and that by making it somehow decide not to qualify for playing baseball, he would be forced to focus on football.
Jackson holds up his threat not to sign, and the Buccaneers lose their rights before the 1987 draft. Jackson is training spring with the Royals when someone tells him that he has a chance to play football again. Inquiring who it was, Jackson discovered that he was taken in a draft seventh round by choosing 183 by the Los Angeles Raiders. Jackson initially said he would continue to focus on baseball and did not want to sign, but his interest was disturbed. Owner of Raiders Al Davis is a Jackson fan and accepts Jackson's idea of ​​playing baseball and soccer. Thus, a negotiated contract in which Jackson will be allowed to play the entire baseball season with the Royals and will report to the Raiders after the season is over. In addition, Davis gave Jackson a salary that was in line with what the beginner would do at the top.
Jackson joined the Raiders in time for their 8th Sunday match against the New England Patriots, where he rushed for a total of 37 yards on eight cars. Jackson shared his background with Marcus Allen, the All-Pro winner and former Heisman Trophy, but eventually replaced him as a returning player despite being listed as a team player. Perhaps his most prominent appearance in his rookie season came on Monday Night Football against Seattle Seahawks on Sunday 12. Before the game, Seahawks midfielder Brian Bosworth insulted Jackson and promised in a media event before the game ended. Jackson. Jackson responded by running over Bosworth on the way to a touchdown near the goal line. He also made a 91-yard run in the 2nd quarter, out, untouched on the sidelines. Jackson rushed 221 yards that night and two goals. He added a third with the receipt. The 221-meter was a single-game record for Raiders until it broke down in 1997, when Napoleon Kaufman rushed for 227 yards in a win over Denver.
In the rookie season, Jackson rushed for a total of 554 yards just on 81 brings for 6.8 yards per carry on average. He played in seven games, started five, and scored a total of six goals (four rushed, two received). The following year, Jackson played in ten of the Raiders' sixteen games with nine starts, recording a total of 580 yards and three touchdowns.
1989 season Jackson is the best in the league. In eleven games, with nine starts, Jackson rushed for a total of 950 yards with an average of 5.5 yards per carry and four goals. In his brief campaign in 1990, Jackson rushed for 698 yards and was selected to be the only Pro Bowl in his career.
Jackson suffered a hip injury that ended his NFL career from a seemingly routine tackle at the end of a 34-yard run in a playoff game on 13 January 1991 against Bengals.
In four seasons in the NFL, Jackson rushed for 2,782 yards and 16 goals with an average of yards per carrying 5.4. He also caught 40 passes for 352 yards and two touchdowns. Jackson's 221 yard on November 30, 1987, just 29 days after his first NFL carry, is still a Monday Night Football record.
NFL stats
Hip wound
Jackson's athletic career was affected by his left hip injury.
In his final game, a playoff victory over Cincinnati in January 1991, Jackson suffered a hip fracture after a tackle. In the movie You Do not Know Bo, Jackson claims that after he found the injury, he physically returns his hips into the socket and in the process damages the blood vessels that supply blood to the area. While doctors found no evidence that Jackson physically rearranged his hip, they found that there was a fracture of one of Jackson's hip bones.
Within a month of his injury, Jackson was diagnosed with avascular necrosis of the hip joint. He was also found to have lost all the cartilage that supports his hip. He will be forced to retire from football, and then cut by the Royals in spring training. Jackson will return to competition with the White Sox near the end of the 1991 baseball season
Popularity
"Bo Knows"
Jackson became a popular figure for his athleticism in various sports until the late 1980s and early 1990s. He supports Nike and is involved in a popular advertising campaign called "Bo Knows" which envisions Jackson trying to take other sports litanies, including tennis, golf, luge, racing, and even playing blues music with Bo Diddley, who scolds Jackson by telling him, You do not know Diddley! " This "Bo Knows" marketing campaign is to release Nike Air Trainer I, cross-training shoes, the first of its kind.
Homage
The professional wrestling team of CHIKARA, the Throwbacks (baseball player Dasher Hatfield and soccer player Mark "Mr. Touchdown" Angelosetti) have a finishing movement called "Bo Jackson".
Video game
Referred to as "the greatest athlete in the history of video games", Jackson's digital partner was dubbed by fans as "Tecmo Bo" since it was featured in the 1989 Tecmo Bowl video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, where he was all but trapped. Referring to his video game character, Jackson is shown in a 2016 ad for Kia Sorento, with Jackson driving into a virtual stadium (second advertisement feature Brian Bosworth with Jackson referring to the famous Monday Night Football touchdown run).
He has his own video game for the original Game Boy portable gaming system, Bo Jackson's Hit and Run . This game features baseball and soccer. Released around the same time is Bo Jackson Baseball for NES systems and computers compatible with IBM. Jackson can be opened as a player on ESPN NFL Football . Jackson appeared in the 2004 video game NFL Street 2 . Jackson also made his first appearance in the modern Madden series, Madden 15 and Madden 16.
Television
Jackson is a character in ProStars, a Saturday morning NBC cartoon show featuring Wayne Gretzky and Michael Jordan fighting crime and helping children, although he, Gretzky, and Jordan do not voice their own character. However he played the character of Calvin Farquhar a sports radio jockey on the TV show Married... with Children .
He also appeared in the episode of the TV series Lois & amp; Clark: The New Adventures of Superman where he plays basketball games with Clark Kent/Superman. She was also in the 'Naked Babies' episode (1995) at the Murder Diagnosis, playing a caretaker for the four babies their mother had just been kidnapped.
Dress
In 2007, Nike released a set of Nike Dunk boots in honor of Bo Jackson. This set features three colors based on previously released Nike shoes: "Kn Knows" Trainer I, Trainer 91 and Medicine Ball Trainer III.
No. 34 Bo Jackson is still sold by Oakland Raiders.
Pre-match tradition
Prior to the Royals game, Jackson used to shoot targets with bows and arrows at the Royals club.
Life after sport
In 1995, Jackson completed his Bachelor of Science in Family and Child Development at Auburn to fulfill the promise he made for his mother.
Throughout the 1990s, Jackson tried acting, having made some of the first television appearances on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1990 as well as Lois & amp; Clark: Superman's New Adventure and Married... with Children . She later appeared in a small role in The Chamber The
, The Pandora Project and Fakin 'Da Funk .
Jackson served as President of the Board of Sports Medicine Medicine, part of Birmingham, Alabama based on HealthSouth Corporation.
Personal life
Jackson married Linda, a Rehabilitation Advisor, and had three sons - Garrett and Nicholas, and a daughter, Morgan. Jackson and his family live in Burr Ridge, Illinois. He is one of the groups of investors who own The Burr Ridge Bank and Trust on the outskirts of Chicago. He is one of the bank's advisors and is said to "roll up his sleeves" and work with others to ensure that small banks become successful during difficult financial times. According to Jackson: "we do not have any kind of debt, like all other banks." We are small community banks and the one thing we all decide, is that if we are going to do a bank in our community it is necessary to be owned by people who live in communities. "
The Chicago White Sox chose Jackson to cast the first tone of the ceremony before Game Two of the 2005 World Series. The White Sox went on to win the game on the innings of 9 round-trip homes, then sweep the Houston Astros for their first championship in 88 years.
In 2006, Jackson appeared on Spike TV's sporting reality show, Pro vs. Joes . In his second appearance, he easily defeated the amateur athletes in the run-hits contest at home. When he bunted instead of swinging on his final experiment for a home run, the announcer declared: "Bo knows taunt."
In 2007, Jackson joined John Cangelosi to form the Bo Jackson Elite Sports Complex, a 88,000 square foot (8,200 m 2 ) multi-sport dome facility in Lockport, Illinois. He is the owner and CEO of the facility. He has been successful with other investments, including food companies, N'Genuity. He often says that although he may be great for sports, sports are no doubt greater for him to consider the post career opportunities he has been given.
On May 9, 2009, Jackson delivered his opening speech at the University of Auburn graduation ceremony. His speech centered on the benefits of stepping out of one's comfort zone.
On July 12, 2010, Jackson threw the first tune of the ceremony before Derby Home Run 2010 in Angel Stadium and participated in a celebrity softball game. After 20 years since his famous "Bo Knows" campaign, Jackson again made commercials for Nike in the fall of 2010 for their "BOOM" campaign. In this ad, he plays mocking New York Yankees star Robinson CanÃÆ'³ during a batting exercise before being impressed by the hit, answering it by saying "Boom!"
In December 2010, he was named the winner of the NCAA Silver Anniversary Award in 2011, awarded annually to six former NCAA athletes for outstanding career achievement on their 25th anniversary of their college graduation.
In April 2012, Jackson participated in Bo Bikes Bama, a five-day grenade fondo, 300 miles to support the victims of the tornado outbreak in Alabama. Gran fondo five days is a one-time event and has become a maximum annual one-day gran fondo that lasts about 62 miles.
On January 22, 2014, Jackson joined the Chicago White Sox as an ambassador for teams that joined Frank Thomas, Minnie MiÃÆ' ± oso, Carlton Fisk, Ron Kittle, Carlos May and Bill Melton.
In a 2017 interview with USA Today, Jackson admitted he would never play football if he knew the health risks associated with it. "I hope I know about all the head injuries, but nobody knows that, and people who know that, they will not tell anyone," he said. "This game is so hard, so rude, we are much more educated in these CTE things (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), it's impossible for me to let my kids play football today."
See also
- Bo Knows Bo , Jackson's autobiography
- List of multi-sport athletes
- List of athletes playing in Major League Baseball and National Football League
References
Further reading
- Gutman, Bill, Bo Jackson , 1991, Simon Spotlight Entertainment
- White, Ellen Emerson, Bo Jackson: Playing Match , 1990
External links
- Bo Jackson at the College Football Hall of Fame
- Bo Jackson on the official Heisman Trophy website
- Bo Jackson on IMDb
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-References, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
- Career statistics and player information from Pro-Football-References
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