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American football running back and safety and baseball thespian

Bo Jackson
Jackson in 2011
Born	Vincent Edward Jackson (1962-11-30) November 30, 1962 (historic period 59) Birmingham, Alabama
Football career
No. 34
Position:	Running back
Personal data
Summit:	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight:	227 lb (103 kg)
Career data
Loftier schoolhouse:	McCalla (AL) McAdory
College:	Auburn (1982–1985)
NFL Typhoon:	1986 / Round: 1 / Choice: ane
Career history
Los Angeles Raiders (1987–1990)
Career highlights and awards
Pro Bowl (1990) Heisman Trophy (1985) Walter Army camp Honour (1985) SEC Player of the Twelvemonth (1985) Sporting News Role player of the Year (1985) UPI Actor of the Year (1985) two× Consensus All-American (1983, 1985) 3× Outset-team All-SEC (1982, 1983, 1985) Auburn Tigers No. 34 retired
Career NFL statistics
Rushing yards: 2,782 Yards per carry: five.4 Rushing touchdowns: xviii
Player stats at NFL.com ·PFR
College Football Hall of Fame
Baseball career
Outfielder / Designated hitter
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 2, 1986, for the Kansas City Royals
Terminal MLB appearance
August 10, 1994, for the California Angels
MLB statistics
Batting average	.250
Home runs	141
Runs batted in	415
Teams
Kansas City Royals (1986–1990) Chicago White Sox (1991, 1993) California Angels (1994)
Career highlights and awards
All-Star (1989)

Vincent Edward "Bo" Jackson (born Nov 30, 1962) is an American former professional person baseball and American football player. He is the just professional athlete in history to be named an All-Star in both baseball and football.^[one] Jackson's aristocracy achievements in multiple sports have given him the reputation as ane of the greatest athletes of all fourth dimension.^[2]

Jackson played college football as a running back for the Auburn Tigers, and won the Heisman Bays in 1985. He played in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Raiders and in Major League Baseball for the Kansas City Royals, Chicago White Sox, and California Angels. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1996.

In 1989 and 1990, Jackson'due south proper name became known beyond merely sports through the "Bo Knows" advertising campaign, a series of advertisements past Nike, starring Jackson alongside musician Bo Diddley, promoting a cantankerous-training athletic shoe named for Jackson.^[3]

A 1991 hip injury on the field concluded his football game career, and his baseball game career ended in 1994. Jackson expanded into other pursuits, including the completion of his Bachelor of Scientific discipline degree in Family and Child Evolution at Auburn. Bo notwithstanding holds the record for most runs for ninety+ yards from scrimmage with 2.^[4] In addition, Jackson appeared in small roles as an actor in tv shows such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ^[five] and Married... with Children,^[6] every bit well every bit films such every bit The Sleeping accommodation.

Early life [edit]

Jackson, the eighth of ten children, was built-in on November thirty, 1962, and raised in Bessemer, Alabama. He was named after Vince Edwards, his female parent'southward favorite histrion. His family described him as a "wild boar hog," as he would constantly go into trouble.

He attended school in McCalla, where he rushed for i,175 yards every bit a running dorsum as a loftier school senior. Jackson hit twenty domicile runs in 25 games for McCalla'south baseball squad during his senior season. He was a two-time country champion in the decathlon.^[vii] Both times that he was the decathlon state champion, he congenital upwardly such a commanding points pb before the 1500 meters that he never competed in that event. "Altitude is the only thing I detest nearly track," he said.^[eight] In 1982, Jackson set land school records for indoor high bound (6'9") and triple jump (48'8").^[9]

College (1982–1986) [edit]

In June 1982, Jackson was selected past the New York Yankees in the second circular of the 1982 Major League Baseball draft, but he instead chose to attend Auburn University on a football scholarship because he promised his mother he would exist the starting time in the family to go to a major college.^[10] He was recruited by caput coach Pat Dye and then Auburn assistant autobus Bobby Wallace. At Auburn, he proved to be a tremendous athlete in both baseball and football game. He shared the backfield with quarterback Randy Campbell, Lionel "Lilliputian Railroad train" James and Tommie Agee.

Collegiate football [edit]

During his fourth dimension playing for the Auburn Tigers football team, he ran for 4,303 career yards,^[eleven] which was the fourth all-time performance in Southeastern Conference (SEC) history. Jackson finished his career with an average of 6.6 yards per behave, which fix the SEC record (minimum 400 rushes).^[12]

In 1982, Jackson'south freshman year, Auburn played Boston College in the Tangerine Basin, where Jackson made a one-handed take hold of on an option pitch. Auburn went on to win the game 33–26 as Jackson rushed xiv times for 64 yards and 2 touchdowns.^[13]

In 1983, as a sophomore, Jackson rushed for 1,213 yards (1,109 yard) on 158 carries, for an average of 7.vii yards per conduct, which was the 2d-all-time single-flavour average in SEC history (minimum 100 rushes). In the 1983 Auburn-Alabama game, Jackson rushed for 256 yards on 20 rushes (12.8 yards per carry), which at the time was the sixth-virtually rushing yards gained in a game in SEC history and the 2nd best yard-per-rush average in a game (minimum twenty attempts) in SEC history. Auburn finished the season past winning the Sugar Bowl confronting Michigan, where Jackson was named Most Valuable Thespian. In 1984, Jackson's junior year (well-nigh of which Jackson missed due to injury), he earned Most Valuable Thespian honors at the Freedom Basin afterwards defeating Arkansas.^[14]

In 1985, Jackson rushed for i,786 yards which was the second-all-time single-flavor performance in SEC history. For his functioning in 1985, Jackson was awarded the Heisman Trophy in what was considered the closest margin of victory always in the history of the laurels, winning over University of Iowa quarterback Chuck Long.^[11] In 1986, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member and Heisman Bays winner Herschel Walker.^[15]

Jackson finished his career at Auburn with four,575 all-purpose yards and 45 full touchdowns, 43 rushing and 2 receiving, with a vi.6 yards per carry average. Jackson'south football game number 34 was officially retired at Auburn in a halftime ceremony on Oct 31, 1992. His is one of only iii numbers retired at Auburn. The others are 1971 Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan'due south number 7, and the number 88 of Sullivan'southward teammate and favorite receiver, Terry Beasley. In 2007, Jackson was ranked #8 on ESPN'south Height 25 Players In Higher Football History list.

Statistics [edit]

	Rushing					Receiving
Year	Att	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD	No.	Yds	Avg	TD
1982	127	829	6.5	53	ix	5	64	12.8	0
1983	158	one,213	7.7	80	12	13	73	5.6	ii
1984	87	475	v.v	53	5	four	62	xv.five	0
1985	278	1,786	six.4	76	17	4	73	eighteen.3	0
Totals	650	4,303	six.vi	80	43	26	272	10.5	two

Collegiate baseball game [edit]

Jackson missed much of his senior flavor subsequently beingness ruled ineligible by the NCAA following a visit with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who he believes tried to demolition his baseball career.^[16]

In an April 1985 written report, a major league scout stated that Jackson'southward just weakness was a lack of baseball experience. The watch said that he could be one of the best greats barring whatsoever injuries. He had a minor shoulder injury in the offset of his collegiate football career, which didn't cause him issues in the long term. The scout also noted that this was his kickoff year playing baseball and he seemed to be a "practise information technology all type of role player" and too stated he was "the best pure athlete in America today". At the time, Jackson was 22 years old, and trying to make an even bigger name for himself than he already had in his football career. In this scouting written report, Jackson's worth to an MLB squad was listed at but $200,000, much less than what he would finish up taking home later on in his brusque-lived careers.^[17]

Statistics [edit]

Yr	Thousand	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	And so	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1983	26	68	14	nineteen	iv	0	four	13	5	2	20	34	.279	.443	.515	.958
1984	Injured
1985	42	147	55	59	5	six	17	43	9	1	26	41	.401	.500	.864	one.364
1986	22	69	21	18	3	2	7	14	5	0	twenty	30	.261	.424	.652	1.076
TOTALS	90	284	90	96	12	8	28	seventy	19	3	66	105	.338	.466	.729	1.195

^[18]

"Bo Over the Top" [edit]

On November 27, 1982, Jackson and the Auburn Tigers found themselves embattled with their heated in-state rival, Alabama (7–three), in the Iron Bowl in Birmingham, Alabama. Auburn held a 14–13 halftime lead when Alabama running back Paul Ott Carruth scored on an eight-yard touchdown run—and then the Crimson Tide added a field goal to brand information technology a 22–14 Alabama lead going into the fourth quarter. Auburn responded every bit Al Del Greco fabricated a 23-yard field goal to make information technology a 22–17 score in the 4th quarter. From Auburn'south own 34-yard line, Bo Jackson and company began a long drive every bit he converted on a fourth-and-one at the Alabama 42. Jackson, who ran 17 times for 114 yards during this Iron Bowl, continued marching his squad downfield as he caught an viii-thou laissez passer from quarterback Randy Campbell down to the Alabama 1-thou line. During the huddle Bo convinced Coach Dye to allow him go over the top of offensive and defensive lines because he was a vii-foot high jumper in high schoolhouse and the other team wouldn't be expecting it. On fourth down with 2:26 left in the game, Jackson completed the drive by going over the top for a one-1000 touchdown run every bit Auburn (finished nine–three in 1982) pulled off a 23–22 victory over Alabama and autobus Paul "Comport" Bryant.^[19]

College track and field [edit]

While at McAdory High School, Jackson competed as a sprinter, hurdler, jumper, thrower and decathlete. His best 100-meter time in high school was ten.44 seconds, but he would afterwards run a x.39 at Auburn. He likewise ran the 100-yard dash in 9.54 seconds. As a hurdler, he recorded times of vii.29 seconds in the 55m hurdles and 13.81 seconds in the 110m hurdles. In decathlon, he reached 8340 points. In the jumping events, he had personal-best jumps of 2.06 meters (6 feet, ix inches) in the high leap, seven.52 meters (24 feet, 8 inches) in the long jump and 14.85 meters (48 anxiety, 9 inches) in the triple jump. As a thrower, he got pinnacle-throws of 15.27 meters (50 feet, 1 inch) in the shot put and 45.44 meters (149 feet, 1 inch) in the discus throw.^[20]

Jackson qualified for the NCAA nationals in the 100-meter dash in his freshman and sophomore years. He considered a career in rails and field, but sprinting would not proceeds him the fiscal security of MLB or the NFL, nor would he have sufficient time to train, given his other commitments. Jackson claimed he ran a 4.12 40-yard nuance time at his pro day^{[ disputed – talk over ]}.^[21] Jackson claimed he was hand-timed by an NFL scout, but has never been verified.^[22]

Personal bests [edit]

Consequence	Time (sec.)	Venue	Appointment
100 meters	x.39[23]

Professional person sports career [edit]

Baseball game [edit]

Kansas City Royals [edit]

Jackson was selected with the first overall option of the 1986 NFL Typhoon by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, just he refused to play for them because a visit to team facilities they said was NCAA-approved was actually non, causing him to miss the remainder of his concluding college baseball game season. Jackson believes that the failure to obtain NCAA approving was deliberate and was intended past the Buccaneers to get him to play football instead of baseball. He vowed not to sign with Tampa Bay should they draft him, but they proceeded anyway. He kept his vow and opted to play baseball for the Kansas City Royals, the defending World Series champions, who had drafted him in the fourth round, 105th overall, in the 1986 amateur typhoon. Presently subsequently the draft, Jackson signed a 3-year contract with the Kansas City Royals worth merely over $1 million. He spent 53 games^[24] with the Memphis Chicks,^[25] the Royals' Course AA modest league chapter, and was chosen up to the majors in September 1986. He made the Royals' roster in 1987 and striking 22 domicile runs, with 53 RBIs and 10 stolen bases as a left fielder.

A replica of Jackson'south 1989 Kansas Metropolis Royals road uniform

Jackson began to show his truthful potential in 1989, when he was voted to start for the American League All-Star team, and was named the game's MVP for his play on both offense and defense. In the summit of the first inning, he defenseless Pedro Guerrero's 2-out line drive to left-heart field to save two runs.^[26] Then he led off the bottom of the first—his outset All-Star plate appearance—with a monstrous 448-human foot (137 one thousand) home run against Rick Reuschel of the San Francisco Giants. NBC-TV announcer Vin Scully exclaimed, "Wait at that ane! Bo Jackson says howdy!" Wade Boggs followed with his own home run, making them the starting time pair in All-Star history to lead off the first inning with back-to-back home runs.^[27] In the 2nd inning, he beat the throw on a potential double play to drive in the eventual winning run. He and then stole second base, making him the 2d player in All-Star Game history to hit a home run and steal a base in the same game (the first was Willie Mays). Jackson finished the game with ii hits in four at-bats, one run scored, and two RBI.

On July 29, 1988, confronting the Baltimore Orioles, Jackson, batting against Jeff Ballard, attempted to call time out every bit Ballard was delivering the brawl. The fourth dimension-out wasn't granted, but Jackson recovered to swing and hit the pitch over the left-field wall for a habitation run despite taking one manus off the bat at the showtime of the at bat.^[28]

Jackson's 171 strikeouts in 1989 tied him for 10th almost strikeouts in a season for a right-handed batter since 1893. On July eleven, 1990, against the Orioles, Jackson performed his famous "wall run", when he caught a ball six strides abroad from the wall. As he defenseless the brawl at full tilt, Jackson looked upward and ran iii steps along the wall, to avoid impact and the take a chance of injury from the fence.^[29]

Before Royals games, Jackson used to shoot at a target with a bow and arrow in the Royals clubhouse.^[30]

During the 1990 flavor, Jackson hitting HRs in iv consecutive at-bats tying a Major League record (held by several). His quaternary came off of Randy Johnson after hitting his outset 3 before a stint on the disabled list. Unwilling to pay his $2.375 million salary in 1991 to rehabilitate his football injury, the Royals released Jackson on March xviii, 1991.^[31]

Chicago White Sox and California Angels [edit]

Only 16 days after Jackson was released by the Royals, the Chicago White Sox offered him a iii-year deal, guaranteeing $700,000 per season with a performance-based upside of $eight.15 million over the term.^[32] White Sox co-possessor Jerry Reinsdorf stated they did not anticipate him to play all seasons while he addressed his hip problems and avascular necrosis. Jackson played two seasons appearing in 23 games in 1991 and 85 games in 1993. He appeared on White Sox' disabled roster during the 1992 flavor due to completing hip replacement surgery earlier that year.^[33] It was with the White Sox that he made his only post-flavor appearance, in the 1993 American League Championship Series, which Chicago lost to the Toronto Blue Jays in six games.

While with the White Sox, Jackson promised his female parent that once he returned from his hip replacement surgery in 1993, he would striking a habitation run for her. Before he could return, his mother died. In his start at-bat later surgery, he striking a abode run to right field. Jackson recovered the ball by trading an autographed bat for information technology, and stated he planned to accept it bronzed and placed on her dresser.^[34]

Jackson finished his career in 1994 with the California Angels. That season was cut brusk by the 1994–95 baseball game strike, and Jackson decided to retire at age 32. "I got to know my family," he said, "That looks better to me than any $ten meg contract."^[35]

In his eight baseball seasons, Jackson had a career batting boilerplate of .250, striking 141 abode runs and had 415 RBIs, with a slugging average of .474. His all-time twelvemonth was 1989, with his endeavour earning him All-Star status. In 1989, Jackson ranked fourth in the American League in both habitation runs, with 32, and RBI, with 105.^[36]

Notable achievements [edit]

• AL All-Star (1989)
• 1989 All-Star Game MVP
• 1993 AL Comeback Role player of the Year Honor
• tenth in the 1989 AL MVP race
• 30-Home Run Seasons: 1 (1989)
• 20-Domicile Run Seasons: 4 (1987–1990)
• 20-Stolen Base Seasons: 2 (1988–1989)
• 100 RBI Seasons: 1 (1989)

MLB statistics [edit]

Year	Team	K	Standard batting
			AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	So	BA	OBP	SLG
1986	KCR	25	82	ix	17	ii	1	2	nine	3	1	vii	34	.207	.286	.329
1987	KCR	116	396	46	93	17	2	22	53	x	four	xxx	158	.235	.296	.455
1988	KCR	124	439	63	108	16	four	25	68	27	half-dozen	25	146	.246	.287	.472
1989	KCR	135	515	86	132	15	6	32	105	26	nine	39	172	.256	.310	.495
1990	KCR	111	405	74	110	xvi	1	28	78	xv	ix	44	128	.272	.342	.523
1991	CHW	23	71	8	16	4	0	iii	xiv	0	1	12	25	.225	.333	.408
1992	CHW	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1993	CHW	85	284	32	66	9	0	16	45	0	2	23	106	.232	.289	.433
1994	CAL	75	201	23	56	vii	0	13	43	one	0	20	72	.279	.344	.507
TOTALS		694	2,393	341	598	86	14	141	415	82	32	200	841	.250	.309	.474

Football [edit]

During his junior and senior years at Auburn, Jackson had apparently transitioned his focus to baseball and became increasingly vocal nearly his unwillingness to play in the NFL.^[37]

A month before the 1986 NFL Draft, Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Hugh Culverhouse took him on a private jet to visit with the team and get a physical during his senior baseball season. Jackson was told past the Buccaneers that the trip had been cleared by the NCAA and SEC. In truth, information technology had not, and since the SEC barred athletes from being professional in one sport and amateur in another, he was declared ineligible almost the tail end of his senior baseball game season. Years later, Jackson told ESPN that he has long believed the Buccaneers sabotaged his collegiate baseball career "because of the season I was having." He was so angry at the Buccaneers' actions that he vowed never to play a down for them, going equally far as to tell Culverhouse, "You draft me if you want. Y'all're going to waste a draft pick. I can promise y'all that."^[38]

Jackson'south collegiate baseball passenger vehicle, Hal Baird, told the Tampa Bay Times that no 1 from either camp ever mentioned the trip to him, and feared the worst when Jackson told him that the trip had been paid for. Baird maintained that had he known about the trip, he would have told Jackson about the SEC rule that barred him from playing professional football while existence an apprentice in baseball. Along similar lines, Dye told the Times that once Jackson concluded that the Tampa Bay trip was "a tactical move," information technology ended any chance of him ever playing for the Buccaneers.^[38]

Despite this, the Buccaneers selected Jackson with the starting time overall selection in the 1986 draft. Jackson turned down the Buccaneers' $seven.6 million, five-year contract in favor of a $1.07 million, three-year contract with the Kansas City Royals, and the Buccaneers forfeited his rights earlier the 1987 draft.^[39] Choosing to slumber in rather than attend the 1987 NFL Draft, Jackson constitute out that he was selected in the seventh round of the draft with the 183rd selection past the Los Angeles Raiders. Initially, Jackson stated he would continue to focus on baseball and would not sign, just his involvement was piqued when he learned Raiders owner Al Davis was a fan of Jackson and was receptive to the idea of Jackson playing both baseball and football.^{[xl] [41]} A five-year $7.four million contract was negotiated where Jackson would be permitted to play the entire baseball game season with the Royals and would report to the Raiders once the MLB season was finished even if it meant missing NFL games. In add-on to this, Davis gave Jackson the highest salary of any non-quarterback player in NFL history, and Jackson would be receiving a reported $500,000 signing bonus plus another $500,000 if he returned the following year in 1988.^{[42] [43]}

Jackson joined the Raiders in time for their Week viii match-up against the New England Patriots, where he rushed for a full of 37 yards on eight carries. Jackson shared the backfield with Marcus Allen, himself an All-Pro and former Heisman Bays winner, but eventually supplanted him as the featured running back despite being listed as the squad'south fullback. Maybe his well-nigh notable performance in his rookie season came on Monday Nighttime Football game against the Seattle Seahawks in Week 12. Prior to the game Seahawks linebacker Brian Bosworth insulted Jackson and promised in a media outcome before the game to contain Jackson. Jackson responded by running over Bosworth on his way to a touchdown near the goal line. He too fabricated a 91-yard run in the 2nd quarter, to the outside, untouched downwards the sideline. Jackson rushed for 221 yards that nighttime and two touchdowns. He added a third with a reception. The 221 yards was a single-game record for the Raiders at the time.

In his rookie season, Jackson rushed for a total of 554 yards on merely 81 carries for a half dozen.8 yards per deport average. He played in seven games, starting five, and scored a total of half-dozen touchdowns (four rushing, two receiving). The side by side twelvemonth, Jackson played in ten of the Raiders' sixteen games with 9 starts, recording a total of 580 yards and 3 touchdowns.

Jackson's 1989 flavor was his all-time in the league. In eleven games, with nine starts, Jackson rushed for a total of 950 yards with a 5.v yards per carry average and iv touchdowns. In his abbreviated 1990 campaign, Jackson rushed for 698 yards and was selected to the only Pro Bowl of his career.

Jackson suffered an NFL career-ending hip injury from a seemingly routine tackle at the end of a 34-yard run in a playoff game on January 13, 1991, against the Bengals.^{[44] [45] [46]}

In his four seasons in the NFL, Jackson rushed for 2,782 yards and 16 touchdowns with an average yards per carry of 5.4. He also caught forty passes for 352 yards and two touchdowns. Jackson's 221 yards on November 30, 1987, just 29 days after his first NFL carry, is still a Monday Dark Football tape.

NFL statistics [edit]

Year	Squad	GP	Rushing					Receiving
			Att	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD	Rec	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD
1987	LA	7	81	554	6.8	91	4	16	136	8.5	23	2
1988	LA	x	136	580	4.three	25	three	9	79	eight.8	27	0
1989	LA	11	173	950	5.v	92	4	9	69	7.vii	xx	0
1990	LA	10	125	698	5.6	88	five	6	68	eleven.3	xviii	0
Career		38	515	2,782	five.4	92	16	xl	352	ix.1	27	2

Hip injury [edit]

Jackson'south athletic career was affected by an injury to his left hip.

In his last football game, the aforementioned playoff victory over Cincinnati in January 1991, Jackson suffered a dislocated hip following a tackle. In the movie You Don't Know Bo, Jackson claimed that subsequently he realized his injury on field, he physically popped his hip dorsum into the socket and in the procedure damaged the blood vessels supplying blood to the area.^[47] While doctors did non find proof that Jackson physically reset his hip, they did detect that at that place was a fracture of 1 of Jackson's hip basic.

Within a month of the injury, Jackson had been diagnosed with avascular necrosis of the hip joint. He also was found to take lost all of the cartilage supporting his hip.^[48] He would exist forced to retire from football, and was then cutting by the Royals in bound training. Jackson would return to contest with the White Sox toward the end of the 1991 baseball flavour, simply did non play the 1992 season while having his hip replaced.^[33]

Popularity [edit]

"Bo Knows" [edit]

Jackson became a pop effigy for his athleticism in multiple sports through the late 1980s and early on 1990s. He endorsed Nike and was involved in a popular ad campaign called "Bo Knows" which envisioned Jackson attempting to take upwards a litany of other sports, including tennis, golf, luge, automobile racing, water ice hockey, and playing blues music with Bo Diddley, who scolded Jackson by telling him, "You don't know Diddley!"^[49] This "Bo Knows" marketing campaign was for the release of the Nike Air Trainer I, a cross-training shoe, the first of its kind.^[50]

Homage [edit]

The CHIKARA professional person wrestling tag team the Throwbacks (baseball player Dasher Hatfield and football player Mark "Mr. Touchdown" Angelosetti) have a finishing move chosen "Bo Jackson".^{[51] [52]}

In 1992, the American hip hop grouping A Tribe Called Quest referenced Jackson in their vocal Scenario.

Video games [edit]

Called "the greatest athlete in video game history",^[53] Jackson's digital analogue was nicknamed by fans "Tecmo Bo" since existence featured in the 1989 video game Tecmo Basin for the Nintendo Amusement System, where he was all but untacklable.^{[54] [55]} Players would make the popular move of running Bo all the way dorsum to his own ane yard line, then run 99 yards for a touchdown with defenders literally billowy off him. Referencing his video game character, Jackson was featured in a 2016 advertisement for the Kia Sorento, with Jackson driving the auto into a virtual stadium (a second ad features Brian Bosworth with Jackson referencing the infamous Mon Night Football game touchdown run).^[56]

He had his own video game for the original Game Male child portable gaming system, Bo Jackson's Striking and Run. The game featured both baseball and football. Released around the aforementioned time was Bo Jackson Baseball for the NES system and IBM-uniform computers. Jackson can be unlocked as a player in ESPN NFL Football game. Jackson made an advent in the 2004 video game NFL Street 2.^[57] Jackson besides made his kickoff appearance in the modern Madden series, Madden 15 and Madden 16. He subsequently returned in Madden NFL xx as office of the Madden Ultimate Team 10th Anniversary promo, before getting a community-made Golden Ticket card.

Goggle box [edit]

Jackson was a graphic symbol in ProStars, an NBC Sat forenoon drawing show which also featured Wayne Gretzky and Michael Jordan fighting offense and helping children, although neither he, nor Gretzky, nor Jordan voiced their corresponding characters. He did however play the character of Calvin Farquhar, a sports radio jockey, on the TV prove Married...with Children.

He also appeared in an episode of the TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman in which he plays a basketball game game with Clark Kent/Superman. He was also in the episode 'Naked Babies' (1995) on Diagnosis Murder, playing a nanny to iv babies who had only had their mother kidnapped.

Life later on sports [edit]

Jackson signing autographs for American soldiers in September 2007

In 1995, Jackson completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Family unit and Child Development at Auburn^[4] to fulfill the promise he made to his mother.^[11]

Through the 1990s, Jackson dabbled in acting, having made several television invitee appearances first on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1990 besides equally Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Moesha, and Married... with Children. He later appeared in small roles in the films The Chamber, The Pandora Project and Fakin' Da Funk.^[58]

Jackson served as the President of the HealthSouth Sports Medicine Quango, part of Birmingham, Alabama-based HealthSouth Corporation.^[59]

In 2007, Nike released a set of Nike Dunk shoes honoring Bo Jackson.^[sixty] The set featured 3 colorways based on previously released Nike shoes: the "Bo Knows" Trainer I, Trainer 91 and Medicine Ball Trainer Three.^[61]

Jackson was inducted into the Baseball game Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in 2016.^[62]

Bo Jackson's number 34 jerseys are still sold by the Las Vegas Raiders.^[63]

Working with his brand Promise Nutraceuticals, Jackson announced a line of CBD products called Hero Brand CBD in November 2021.^[64]

Personal life [edit]

Jackson is married to Linda, a rehabilitation advisor, and has three children – sons Garrett and Nicholas, and a girl, Morgan.^[65] Jackson and his family alive in Burr Ridge, Illinois. In 2009, he joined the lath of Burr Ridge Bank and Trust. In 2013, the bank was acquired by First Community Fiscal Depository financial institution, who retained Jackson as a lath member. In 2017, First Community was acquired by Busey Bank, and Jackson left the board.

The Chicago White Sox chose Jackson to throw the ceremonial first pitch before Game 2 of the 2005 Earth Series. The White Sox went on to win that game on a 9th-inning walk-off home run, then swept Houston Astros for their first championship in 88 years.

In 2007, Jackson came together with John Cangelosi to class the Bo Jackson Elite Sports Complex, an 88,000-square-pes (8,200 thousand²) multi-sport dome facility in Lockport, Illinois. He is function-owner and CEO of the facility. He has been successful with other investments, including a food visitor, Northward'Genuity. He ofttimes says that while he may have been great for sports, sports were no doubt greater for him because the postal service-career opportunities that accept been afforded him.^[66]

On May ix, 2009, Jackson delivered the get-go speech at Auburn University's graduation anniversary. His oral communication was centered on the benefits of stepping out of one'south comfort zone.^[67]

On July 12, 2010, Jackson threw the ceremonial showtime pitch before the 2010 Dwelling house Run Derby at Angel Stadium^[68] and participated in the celebrity softball game.^[69]

In December 2010, he was named a 2011 winner of the NCAA Silver Anniversary Honor, given annually to six one-time NCAA pupil-athletes for distinguished career accomplishment on the 25th ceremony of their higher graduation.^[70]

In April 2012, Jackson participated in Bo Bikes Bama, a five-day, 300-mile gran fondo in back up of victims of the tornado outbreak in Alabama. The five-day gran fondo was a one-time upshot and has become an annual^[71] maximum single-twenty-four hour period gran fondo lasting approximately 62 miles.

On Jan 22, 2014, Jackson rejoined the Chicago White Sox equally an ambassador for the squad – joining the ranks of Frank Thomas, Minnie Miñoso, Carlton Fisk, Ron Kittle, Carlos May, and Bill Melton.^[72]

In a 2017 interview with USA Today, Jackson said he never would have played football if he had known the wellness risks associated with it. "I wish I had known most all of those head injuries, but no one knew that. And the people that did know that, they wouldn't tell everyone," he said. "The game has gotten so violent, so rough. We're so much more educated on this CTE stuff (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), there's no way I would ever allow my kids to play football game today."^[73]

Jackson is known to oftentimes refer to himself in the third person, a addiction he has had since his childhood due to his astringent stutter which made it difficult for him to say "I".^[74]

Charity [edit]

In an try to help his native state of Alabama, Jackson began a fundraiser known as "Bo Bikes Bama". The effect began after a serial of tornadoes devastated Alabama on April 27, 2011. The tornadoes claimed hundreds of lives and left many Alabama residents without ability. The bike tour lasted v days where Jackson visited towns that had been demolished by the serial of tornadoes. Bo was accompanied on this bout past celebrities such equally Scottie Pippen, Ken Griffey Jr., Lance Armstrong, and Brett Favre. Today, the "Bo Bikes Bama" campaign has raised over $1.1 million for the Alabama Governor's Emergency Relief Fund.^{[75] [76]}

See also [edit]

• Bo Knows Bo, Jackson's autobiography
• List of multi-sport athletes
• List of athletes who played in Major League Baseball and the National Football League

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Further reading [edit]

• Gutman, Nib, Bo Jackson, 1991, Simon Spotlight Amusement
• White, Ellen Emerson, Bo Jackson: Playing the Games, 1990

External links [edit]

Wikimedia Eatables has media related to Bo Jackson.

• Bo Jackson at the College Football Hall of Fame
• Bo Jackson at Heisman.com
• Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball game Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet
• Career statistics and actor data from NFL.com · Pro Football Reference
• Bo Jackson at IMDb
• Bo Jackson at SABR (Baseball BioProject)
• Founding partner at Promise Nutraceuticals

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