When I was a kid there was a guy who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Steelers, and Penguins.
His name was Vince Lascheidand he played the organ
Bo was very talented. He was also good at track. Big and fast a rare combination. He was always fresh in Football, because he only played part of a season. Baseball he was very good, but not great. The MNF game were he had 200+ yards was amazing, but the famous Bosworth play wasn’t that special. The Raiders were at the two or three, and Bo put his shoulder down into Bosworth about the one. Bo drove him about a yard before Bosworth drove them sideways to the ground. He didn’t run him over by any means. Marshawn Lynch dominates players every week more impressively than this.
Andre Rison might disagree.
That’s the most misleading YouTube video title ever.
He still plays for the Pirates and he has been dead for five years.
Who the heck is “Neon” Deion*? If you’re gonna talk that much shit about an NFL HOFer, at least educate yourself on him.
- “Neon” was a name invented by others and was despised by Mr. Sanders. He was, is, and always will be Prime Time (or just Prime if you know him).
Irrespective of his skills as a football player, I feel rather sad for Sanders if he actually wants people to address him as “Prime.”
Sanders was, of course, a much greater football player than Bo Jackson. Nobody wants to hear that, but it’s true. Jackson was awesome when he could actually play, but he just didn’t last long enough to have an impact. Sanders p;layed 189 NFL games, a pretty long career; Jackson played 38. Sanders had more touchdowns in interceptions and kick/punt returns than Jackson had total, to give you some idea of scale.
Hell of a physical specimen, Bo was, but he never really helped a pro team win anything. (Well, the Raiders did win one playoff game with him.)
From what I’ve heard of the man (from people who played with him and knew him), it isn’t that he WANTS people to address him as Prime as much as it is that he DOESN’T want people to address him as “Neon”. Frankly, if I ever do meet him socially it will be Mr. Sanders or Deion (depending on circumstance). Further, from what I’ve heard, he would be outwardly gracious in any case (Deion, Mr. Sanders, Prime/Prime Time, OR Neon). He’s one of the (seemingly) few that realizes that he got paid a shit-ton of money to play a game because there were lots of people willing to pay hard-earned money to see him play and he’s grateful for it.
As much of a fan as I am, I didn’t realize this. You are, as always, king of the stats!
Aye, he doesn’t encourage people to call him Prime (or Prime Time, really) but he does discourage people from calling him Neon Deion. And no, he didn’t give himself the nickname Prime Time.
He was a super nice guy in college, too. Very personable, very engaging.
That was my favorite part of the whole two-sport spectacle of Jackson and Sanders back then.
Do you mean “baseball” player?
I looked it up in book by Thomas Boswell; Cracking the show. It was in Baltimore where where he ran up the wall to horizontal and back down again on a routine fly.
Then O’s manager Johnny Oats said; “That can’t be done. I know because I went out and tried it a few days later. That was embarrassing.”
That’s my favorite Bo moment. What if’s… I think he could have been in Halls of the Very Good. To be mentioned in one sport is a fraction of a fraction of all players. To do in two sports defies belief.
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Sorry for the zombie bump, but I just watched the 30-for30 special “You Don’t Know Bo”.
Insane athlete, Bo was. But as an O’s fan, Johnny Oates was the Manager of the O’s–he didn’t try it himself. It was O’s All-Stars like Brady Anderson, a great athlete himself and All-Star, who said–“We tried it the next day at batting practice and couldn’t come close.”
Throwing out Harold Reynolds was the ultimate show of arm strength for Bo. There’s a great clip of H.Jackson in disbelief.
For those who have not watch the 30-for-30 episode, watch it… and the talk of Bo vs Boz is just crazy talk… no linebacker could have stopped Bo on “that play”.
A few baseball highlights that come to mind:
Bo runs up the outfield wall
Bo throws out runner at home
Bo tries to call time out but hits HR anyway
I remember my Dad took me to a Raiders game (I grew up in LA County) and we saw Bo Jackson run a 90+ yard TD on a play. It was incredible.
This thread has grown pretty fast; so I hope this hasn’t already been posted.
Here’s a videoof Dieon Sanders talking about being run over by Bo Jackson.
ESPN Debateon the comparison between Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders