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They touched on his tools for baseball. He was an 80 runner, 80 power and plus arm if not 80. He appears to be a good defender and he was starting to get the hit tool before he got hurt as his k/bb dropped that year. Those core tools are once and a generation.
Not from Moneyball but from Bill James.
The Bo story brought a tear to my eye. Easily my favorite athlete growing up. Oh, what could have been but it was beautiful while it lasted. And good for him for telling Tampa Bay to go f themselves. I didn't know the backstory of the flight that ruined his baseball eligibility senior year.
Most MLB teams thought he was bluffing when he said he wouldn't play for Tampa, so nobody wanted to risk a top pick for him. The Yankees had drafted him in the 2nd round in 1982 but they lost their rights to him.Bo could have pulled an Eli Manning but that's just not the kind of person he was. (Plus, I think he was so mad at Tampa that he did not want them to benefit from trading him.)When the Raiders drafted him in 1987, Al Davis promised him that he could play baseball full time and then report to the Raiders after baseball season. Davis also offered a much bigger contract than Tampa did.Any team in the NFL could have done what Al Davis did, but none of them thought it was possible to simultaneously play in the NFL and MLB. So yeah, they were all asleep at the wheel.
Yep. They interview Tecmo Bo
He didn't work outThis was actually a serious question.'Carver said:
My thought was "with all that money, why isn't his basement finished?"
You had to be there for the hype leading up to the game. They mentioned in during the show, but it was understated. I don't remember the details, but the whole week leading up to it, everyone was anticipating what would happen in a one on one showdown. The highlight itself in a vacuum doesn't look like much, a big rb meeting a linebacker and falling forward. There was so much more to the play though, and essentially destroyed the image the "Boz" was building for himself and turned him into a joke. That's a big play for what was supposed to be the next great linebacker.
They did, even had Techmo Bowl "highlights" of his play and mentioned how he only had one play, because it would have been unfair to give him more than one.
You didn't go to school because of how a football game turned out?
You're talking about this play against Denver, but I too thought the trucking of Boz was worse than that goal line play. Must've been some other RB running over Boz.
I remember the
This one is a gut punch. Highly recommended.Same here, although I missed and really want to see the basketball one about Petrovic/Divac and the Yugoslavian team.
My wife is a little too young to remember watching him, so I described him as if Adrian Peterson and the less polished version of Bryce Harper were the same guy.
That's a pretty fair (and not hyperbolic) comparison. I realize that people too young to remember Bo think some of us are embellishing things. But we aren't. The only athlete more impressive than Bo Jackson was Tecmo Bo Jackson, who is still the most dominant video game sports character of all time.
other than Roenick, maybe.
The Bryce Harper of spring and early summer had ridiculous power and a ridiculous arm, but a huge hole in his swing a la Bo. Harper played enough ball throughout his life that he was able to adjust at the big league level very quickly, Bo never did that. But in terms of the scouting potential, it was the same or even better. During the episode Jason Parks of Baseball Prospectus was answering twitter questions about Bo as a prospect and every proposed comp came up short.
I think he's more of a combo of Patrick Peterson and Bryce Brown.
I did find it odd that they showed two different TD receptions and maybe another non-TD reception as part of his highlights. I thought to myself, "Huh, didn't remember him being a good receiver." Yeah, apparently, those were his only two TD receptions and he finished his career averaging 1.1 receptions per game.I don't say that to take anything away from him; I just found it odd that they showed receiving highlights.
I was a huge Bo Jackson fan and told Santa I wanted Bo Jackson sneaks or Air Jordan's for Christmas. Being 8 or 9 years old couldn't wait to for christmas because Santa was pretty good to me previous years. So I go to open up my new sneaks to find out that Santa brought me something better thatn Bo Trainers or Air Jordan's. What could it be?How bout Jordache sneakers. My dad must of saw the sadness in my face and tried to sell me on the idea tha Michael Jordan owned Jordache sneakers. I bought the story and the next day a few kids were picking on me because I retold that same story. When I got home I did what any 9 year old kid would do by hiding the sneakers. My Mom and Dad looked everywhere for them and new that I did something with them but I never gave it up. The story ended with my dad coughing up the money and buying me the Bo Trainers. I was the cool kid at school the next day as I was the only 3rd grader that had them.Fast fwd to the following summer.....My Dad found those very same Jordace sneakers from K-Mart in the Barbecue Grill under charcoal.
Jackson averaged more yards per game than Thomas while starting half as many games and having 250 fewer carries.
"It's not so much me, as it's Roenick. He's good."
Plus neither Dickerson nor Thomas had Marcus Allen on their team
What years are you comparing? Are you including receiving stats?Starting half as many games can actually make it easier to have a higher yards per game.
