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Bo Jackson in ‘Super Mario Bros’ is just awesome

A. Isaac — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:30:46 +0000

Bo Jackson in Tecmo Bowl was the most dominant video game character in history. Bo Jackson in Super Mario Bros? Yep, just as dominant. Take a look at this awesome clip.

76 years of the NFL draft, 76 first overall picks

A. Isaac — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:00:21 +0000

The NFL has held 76 drafts dating all the way back to 1936. Some of those players have gone on to become the best at their position and some have never played a down at the professional level. Here’s a look at every single first overall pick, their career achievements and whether or not, they are BUSTS!

1936 Jay Berwanger

College: Chicago

Team: Philadelphia Eagles

Career highlights: Despite winning the Heisman in 1935, Berwanger never played a single down of professional football.

Bust: Yes

1937 Sam Francis

College: Nebraska

Team: Philadelphia Eagles

Career highlights: Played four years in the NFL before leaving for WWII.

Bust: Yes, although going to war gives him a bit of a pass

1938 Corbett Davis

College: Indiana

Team: Cleveland Rams

Career highlights: Yet another man who left professional football to fight in WWII.

Bust: Same as above. Hard to call him one or not

1939 Ki Aldrich

College: TCU

Team: Chicago Cardinals

Career highlights: Played in 2 NFL All-Star games and also fought in WWII.

Bust: No

1940 George Cafego

College: Tennessee

Team: Chicago Cardinals

Career highlights: Somewhat of a ho-hum career with five touchdowns. Nothing spectacular.

Bust: Yes

1941 Tom Harmon

College: Michigan

Team: Chicago Bears

Career highlights: One of the best collegiate athletes of the 20th century but war injuries kept his professional football stint brief.

Bust: Unfortunately, yes

1942 Bill Dudley

College: Virginia

Team: Pittsburgh Steelers

Career highlights: Rushing champ in 1942, 1946, 2x Pro Bowl selection, NFL MVP 1946. One of the best players during the 1940s.

Bust: No

1943 Frank Sinkwich

College: Georgia

Team: Detroit Lions

Career highlights: All Pro in 1943-1944, NFL MVP 1944

Bust: No

1944 Angelo Bertelli

College: Notre Dame

Team: Boston Yanks

Career highlights: Knee injuries forced him out of football after a few short seasons.

Bust: Yes

1945 Charley Trippi

College: Georgia

Team: Chicago Cardinals

Career highlights: Led his team to an NFL championship in 1947 and was 3x All Pro selection.

Bust: No

1946 Frank Dancewicz

College: Notre Dame

Team: Boston Yanks

Career highlights: Although he had 11 touchdowns in 1947, his career is quite unremarkable.

Bust: Yes

1947 Bob Fenimore

College: Oklahoma A&M

Team: Chicago Bears

Career highlights: Only played 10 games in 1947 before retiring because of injuries.

Bust: Yes

1948 Harry Gilmer

College: Alabama

Team: Washington Redskins

Career highlights: Played 8 years in the NFL and was selected to the Pro Bowl twice (1950, 1952)

Bust: No

1949 Chuck Bednarik

College: Penn

Team: Philadelphia Eagles

Career highlights: Said plainly, Chuck Bednarik is one of the finest football players to ever play in the NFL. Was on the 75th anniversary all-time team. Numerous selections as an All-Pro and probably the best player in the 1950s.

Bust: No

1950 Leon Hart

College: Notre Dame

Team: Boston Yanks

Career highlights: Played 8 years in the NFL and had an astounding 12 receiving touchdowns in 1951.

Bust: No

1951 Kyle Rote

College: SMU

Team: New York Giants

Career highlights: Played his entire career with the Giants (11 seasons) and made two Pro Bowls.

Bust: No

1952 Bill Wade

College: Vanderbilt

Team: Los Angeles Rams

Career highlights: 13-year NFL career, 2x All Pro, 2 Pro Bowls

Bust: No

1953 Harry Babcock

College: Georgia

Team: San Francisco 49ers

Career highlights: Caught 16 passes in the NFL during 3 seasons.

Bust: Yes

1954 Bobby Garrett

College: Stanford

Team: Cleveland Browns

Career highlights: Played one season in the NFL and has a lone interception to his credit.

Bust: Yes

1955 George Shaw

College: Oregon

Team: Baltimore Colts

Career highlights: 8-year NFL career. Nothing really stands out although he did throw 11 touchdowns in 1960.

Bust: Yes

1956 Gary Glick

College: Colorado A&M

Team: Pittsburgh Steelers

Career highlights: Had 14 interceptions in an 8-year NFL career.

Bust: Yes

1957 Paul Hornung

College: Notre Dame

Team: Green Bay Packers

Career highlights: One of the best players in the 1960s and inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. NFL MVP in 1961.

Bust: No

1958 King Hill

College: Rice

Team: Chicago Cardinals

Career highlights: Threw 37 touchdowns in a 12-year NFL career. One of those guys who stuck around but never “stuck out.”

Bust: Yes

1959 Randy Duncan

College: Iowa

Team: Green Bay Packers

Career highlights: Never played in the NFL. Went straight to the Canadian Football League.

Bust: Yes

1960 Billy Cannon

College: LSU

Team: Los Angeles Rams

Career highlights: Won the AFL championship in 1961 and 1962. Led the league in rushing in 1961.

Bust: No

1961 Tommy Mason

College: Tulane

Team: Minnesota Vikings

Career highlights: Played 11 seasons in the NFL and rushed for over 4,000 yards. Never lived up to the hype of a 1st overall pick.

Bust: Yes

1962 Ernie Davis

College: Syracuse

Team: Redskins (traded to Browns immediately)

Career highlights: First black player drafted #1 overall but never played a single regular season professional game. Died of Leukemia in 1963.

Bust: Hard to call a guy a bust when he was never able to play a game because of cancer.

1963 Terry Baker

College: Oregon State

Team: Los Angeles Rams

Career highlights: Played 3 seasons in the NFL before jumping to the Edmonton Eskimos.

Bust: Yes

1964 Dave Parks

College: Texas Tech

Team: San Francisco 49ers

Career highlights: 10-year NFL career highlighted by a league record 80 reception, 1344 yard and 12 touchdown effort in 1965.

Bust: No

1965 Tucker Fredrickson

College: Auburn

Team: New York Giants

Career highlights: Six year NFL career amassing over 3,000 yards from scrimmage. Selected to the 1965 Pro Bowl.

Bust: Yes

1966 Tommy Nobis

College: Texas

Team: Atlanta Falcons

Career highlights: 1960s All Decade Team, All Pro 1967, 1968. One of the fiercest competitors the NFL has ever seen.

Bust: No

1967 Bubba Smith

College: Michigan State

Team: Baltimore Colts

Career highlights: Selected to two Pro Bowls and won a Super Bowl with the Colts in 1970. Perhaps wasn’t as great as he was in college, but undoubtedly a solid NFL career.

Bust: No

1968 Ron Yary

College: USC

Team: Minnesota Vikings

Career highlights: 1970s All Decade team and an All Pro for six straight seasons. Selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2001 and remains one of the best offensive linemen in history.

Bust: No

1969 O.J. Simpson

College: USC

Team: Buffalo Bills

Career highlights: NFL MVP in 1973 and one of the best 10 best running backs to play the game. First player to rush for over 2,000 yards. Selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. It’s been downhill since then.

Bust: No

1970 Terry Bradshaw

College: Louisiana Tech

Team: Pittsburgh Steelers

Career highlights: Won the Super Bowl four times and was MVP in two of those years. 1970s All Decade Team and was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1989.

Bust: No

1971 Jim Plunkett

College: Stanford

Team: New England Patriots

Career highlights: An up and down 15-year NFL career with 4 different teams. Won two Super Bowls and was MVP in Super Bowl XV.

Bust: No

1972 Walt Patulski

College: Notre Dame

Team: Buffalo Bills

Career highlights: An unspectacular 5-year NFL career and probably one of the 25 biggest disappointments in draft history.

Bust: Yes

1973 John Matuszak

College: Tampa

Team: Houston Oilers

Career highlights: Although he won two Super Bowls and had a 8-year NFL career, he was more known for his drug use than his play on the field.

Bust: Yes

1974 Ed “Too Tall” Jones

College: Tennessee State

Team: Dallas Cowboys

Career highlights: 3x Pro Bowl, 3x All Pro selection, Super Bowl champion in the 1977 season. One of the “tallest players” in NFL history.

Bust: No

1975 Steve Bartkowski

College: Cal

Team: Atlanta Falcons

Career highlights: Rookie of the year in 1975 and led the NFL in passing in 1980. The all-time leader in passing for the Atlanta Falcons.

Bust: No

1976 Lee Roy Selmon

College: Oklahoma

Team: Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Career highlights: One of the best defensive linemen the game has ever seen. Multiple Pro Bowl and All-Pro selections and the 1979 NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995.

Bust: No

1977 Ricky Bell

College: USC

Team: Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Career highlights: Rushed for a little over 3,000 yards in a shortened NFL career. Was picked ahead of Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett which many people questioned at the time.

Bust: Yes

1978 Earl Campbell

College: Texas

Team: Houston Oilers

Career highlights: NFL MVP in 1979 and one of the 10 greatest running backs in NFL history. His highlight reel is still entertaining to this day. Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1991.

Bust: No

1979 Tom Cousineau

College: Ohio State

Team: Buffalo Bills

Career highlights: Never really panned out as he left the Bills to go to the CFL. He later came back to play for the Browns but his career was just ordinary.

Bust: Yes

1980 Billy Sims

College: Oklahoma

Team: Detroit Lions

Career highlights: Career cut short by injuries but was the Rookie of the Year in 1980. Still ran for over 5,000 yards and 42 touchdowns.

Bust: No

1981 George Rogers

College: South Carolina

Team: New Orleans Saints

Career highlights: Seven year NFL career that included a Super Bowl championship and two Pro Bowl selections.

Bust: No

1982 Kenneth Sims

College: Texas

Team: New England Patriots
Career highlights: 17 sacks in 8 NFL seasons is not what the Patriots were looking for when they took this stud #1 overall.

Bust: Yes

1983 John Elway

College: Stanford

Team: Baltimore Colts (traded to Broncos)

Career highlights: If Elway isn’t the best quarterback of all-time, he’s certainly in the discussion. Two Super Bowls, an NFL MVP, threw for over 50,000 yards and inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2004.

Bust: No

1984 Irving Fryar

College: Nebraska

Team: New England Patriots

Career highlights: Selected to the Pro Bowl five times. All Pro in 1985 and 1994. Perhaps isn’t as well known as other #1 picks but a solid NFL career.

Bust: No

1985 Bruce Smith

College: Virginia Tech

Team: Buffalo Bills

Career highlights: To put Bruce Smith’s career in perspective, he was on both the 1980s and 1990s All Decade team. Probably one of the best football players to ever put on pads. Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009.

Bust: No

1986 Bo Jackson

College: Auburn

Team: Bucs (re-entered NFL draft in 1987)

Career highlights: Yet another career cut short by injury but when Bo played, Bo played well. Over 2700 yards and 16 touchdowns in four seasons.

Bust: A close one but no.

1987 Vinny Testaverde

College: Miami

Team: Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Career highlights: One of those guys you feel could still play today despite being 48-years-old. Nothing really stands out about Testaverde’s career, but then again, his longevity was one of the more remarkable things in NFL history.

Bust: No

1988 Aundray Bruce

College: Auburn

Team: Atlanta Falcons

Career highlights: Only started 42 games in his entire NFL career. Never lived up to the hype he had at Auburn.

Bust: Yes

1989 Troy Aikman

College: UCLA

Team: Dallas Cowboys

Career highlights: Too many accolades to list here. Super Bowl MVP, 3x Super Bowl Champion, numerous Pro Bowl and All-Pro selections. Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006.

Bust: No

1990 Jeff George

College: Illinois

Team: Indianapolis Colts

Career highlights: Jeff George was one of those quarterbacks that retired and unretired so many times, it was hard to keep track. He never lived up to his billing but he did throw for over 27,000 yards in his NFL career.

Bust: A tough call but yes.

1991 Russell Maryland

College: Miami

Team: Dallas Cowboys

Career highlights: He played on the greatest dynasty in NFL history so it overshadows his actual contributions to the team, which was, for all intents and purposes ho-hum.

Bust: Yes

1992 Steve Emtman

College: Washington

Team: Indianapolis Colts

Career highlights: Seemingly injured all the time in his NFL career so of course, he never quite racked up the numbers he could have had he been healthy.

Bust: Yes

1993 Drew Bledsoe

College: Washington State University

Team: New England Patriots

Career highlights: Before there was Tom Brady, there was Drew Bledsoe. A very good quarterback who just got hurt at the wrong time. Threw for over 44,000 yards in his NFL career.

Bust: No

1994 Dan Wilkinson

College: Ohio State

Team: Cincinnati Bengals

Career highlights: Long NFL career. Played in 182 games and amassed 388 tackles. Was never the dominant force he was in college though.

Bust: No

1995 Ki-Jana Carter

College: Penn State

Team: Cincinnati Bengals

Career highlights: In his first preseason game, Carter suffered a devastating knee injury and never fully recovered. He may have been good but never really had the chance.

Bust: Yes

1996 Keyshawn Johnson

College: USC

Team: New York Jets

Career highlights: A very solid NFL wide receiver but I hesitate to call him a great one. Lengthy career though and did have over 10,000 yards receiving.

Bust: No

1997 Orlando Pace

College: Ohio State

Team: St. Louis Rams

Career highlights: Overall, the best offensive linemen of the 2000s. Several All Pro and Pro Bowl selections. Will probably end up in the Hall of Fame sometime in the not so distant future.

Bust: No

1998 Peyton Manning

College: Tennessee

Team: Indianapolis Colts

Career highlights: Although he only has one Super Bowl to his credit, he may end up going down as the best quarterback of all-time.
Bust: No

1999 Tim Couch

College: Kentucky

Team: Cleveland Browns

Career highlights: I think it would be insulting to call what Tim Couch did an NFL career.

Bust: Yes

2000 Courtney Brown

College: Penn State

Team: Cleveland Browns

Career highlights: Had a remarkable rookie season but could never match that again because of injuries.

Bust: Yes

2001 Michael Vick

College: Virginia Tech

Team: Atlanta Falcons

Career highlights: Despite serving time in prison and taking away the prime of his career, Vick is undoubtedly the best dual threat quarterback the game has ever seen.

Bust: No

2002 David Carr

College: Fresno State

Team: Houston Texans

Career highlights: He’s still playing in the NFL today so I guess there’s a chance he could turn it around. Who am I kidding?

Bust: Yes

2003 Carson Palmer

College: USC

Team: Cincinnati Bengals

Career highlights: A very good quarterback that was cut down brutally during a playoff game. Has never been the same since that moment although this comeback with the Raiders may end up being successful for him.

Bust: No

2004 Eli Manning

College: Ole Miss

Team: San Diego Chargers (traded to New York Giants)

Career highlights: Although Eli doesn’t have regular season success like his brother, he more than makes up for it in the playoffs. Two-time Super Bowl Champion and MVP.

Bust: No

2005 Alex Smith

College: Utah

Team: San Francisco 49ers

Career highlights: Before last year, the highlights were slim for Alex Smith and he was headed for “bust” territory. But he may have just been a late bloomer.

Bust: Verdict not in as of yet.

2006 Mario Williams

College: North Carolina State

Team: Houston Texans

Career highlights: Famously taken ahead of Reggie Bush, Williams has been a solid NFL player thus far in his career.

Bust: No

2007 JaMarcus Russell

College: LSU

Team: Oakland Raiders

Career highlights: Purple drank

Bust: LOL!

2008 Jake Long

College: Michigan

Team: Miami Dolphins

Career highlights: Has made the Pro Bowl in every single season and was a first team All Pro in 2010.

Bust: No

2009 Matthew Stafford

College: Georgia

Team: Detroit Lions

Career highlights: If last year’s numbers are any indication, the Lions may have their first franchise quarterback since Bobby Layne.

Bust: Jury’s still out.

2010 Sam Bradford

College: Oklahoma

Team: St. Louis Rams

Career highlights: Rookie of the year in 2010 but had an unremarkable 2011 season with some injuries.

Bust: Jury’s still out.

2011 Cam Newton

College: Auburn

Team: Carolina Panthers

Career highlights: Arguably the greatest rookie season anybody has ever had regardless of sport. Is that enough hyperbole for you?

Bust: If Cam’s career ended today, I’d still have a problem calling him a bust after his 2011 season.

VIDEO: Examples of epic game playing are… epic

Matt Hawkins — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:01:25 +0000

Remember all those amazing passes you pulled off in Tecmo Bowl? Yeah, well, you weren’t so special as it turns out.

Just watch this and ask yourself if you could compare…

I’d definitely be into Madden 2011 if you do such things. But you know, realism lol! Or at the very least if the soundtrack was on the same level. Anyway, if you think that was nuts, check this out…

Here’s a question: if you’re a fan of game X, but have long since grown bored of it, due to being so damn good, what’s the next step? Make your own levels, and why the hell not: make them hard as hell.

Hence what you see above, one of countless mods for the original Super Mario Bros. You’ll find similar effort for countless other NES games, mostly since the tools to do so are super simple at this point.

Epic Tecmo Bowl run by Bo Jackson[Super Punch]

The 8 worst athlete music videos of all time

Shawn Norris — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:00:15 +0000

The modern day athlete is bigger stronger and faster than any generation of athlete before them. Their skills are honed to precision. Every skill except for singing. And sometimes dancing. Oh, and making sound decisions on music video attire. And music video scripts. And video ideas. And.. screw it, it’s easier to show you the proof. (Oh, and excuse the video quality. They also apparently don’t have anyone that knows how to upload a proper video. It’s the music that’s most important here anyway.)

8 Deion Sanders – “Must Be the Money”
“You know ever since I turned pro in 1989
When I signed the dotted line
People’s strange!
‘Cause things change
For the better and for the worse”

This is probably one of those “worse” times. In the dark ages of music before Auto-Tune, this is what happened to athletes who tried to become music artists. Watching this video makes me miss those days.

Deion was one of the fastest players to ever play in the NFL. I bet he wishes that he would have run far, far away from this music video set. Yeah, a lot of people will say that he probably made a ton of money off this and that is why he did it. Well, he had a ton of money to begin with and looking back, he probably has some semblance of regret even if they helped buy the “Diamond Rolex and gators on my feet.”

What are you, Ray Charles? I don’t care how bright Neon Deion is–he doesn’t need to wear the sunglasses while getting his hair cut, doing his taxes and dancing with several scantily clad ladies on what looks to be an airstrip in the dead of night. The funny thing is, the only time he takes the glasses off is when he’s sitting next to the pool. I don’t know if there is some reverse sunglasses clause in all hip-hop videos, but this made no sense to me. I can’t imagine the hysterics that must have been echoing through the set when the director said “Break it down Deion!” at the 2:50 mark. He looks like a blind chicken having a seizure…probably from caught a glance at all the gold and purple suit in the mirror and lost control of his arms and legs.

I loved Deion as a Falcon. I loved Deion as Cowboy. I loved Deion as a 49er. I did not love Dieon as a whatever the hell he is supposed to be in this video. They should have saved this “Prime Time” for infomercial time.

7 Koko B. Ware – “Pile Driver”

From the start this thing was a disaster. Koko must have written the opening too. Who throws tires around like toothpicks? What kind of description is that? It’s like saying “I throw rocks like Volvos.” And what the hell are you building where you have a superfluous amount of tires just laying around a construction site? Are you building the Michelin Man? And what the hell is an “argament?”

OK, secretly I probably loved this video when I was little. It has Bam-Bam Bigelow, Hulk Hogan and Rowdy Roddy Piper. Even with “Mouth of the South” Jimmy Hart; this video was probably awesome for every eight year old wrestling fan at the time it came out. But as you can see it has not aged well. The lyrics are dreadfully tacky and even a bevy of mismatched beauties wandering through a construction site in the middle of nowhere can’t save this video. I mean, you can tell Koko is really trying to bring it home with this song, but man this is just hard to watch. And he didn’t even give that bird a solo. Some bird friend you are, dick.

6 Bo Jackson and Grover – “Wubba Wubba Wubba”
I refuse to say anything bad about Bo Jackson–so just look in the phone booth at the 1:53 mark. If you see Ray Charles you’ve gone too far. If Ray Charles sees you, you’ve taken acid again, grandma; it’s time for your nap.

5 Carl Lewis – “Break It Up”
Holy crappy 80’s montage Batman! I’ve seen more production value in elementary school plays.

Carl looks like an more effeminate Janet Jackson in this video than a track and field athlete. With his one piece leotard and real nose, he probably would have made a better looking woman that Janet at the time. And he certainly had the outfit for it…

Who thought this was a good idea? Carl Lewis had to know he couldn’t sing, right? This is so cheesily bad that it’s almost hypnotic. Wait…are those bubbles? Is that an overweight, elderly white woman in novelty sunglasses? Are you now in the hot tub with her Carl? Now back to clips of you winning in the Olympics. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?!

At some point somebody in your posse or entourage or whatever you want to call it has to say “Hold-up Carl, this is a really bad idea. I’m looking around at the old lady in the glasses and the bubbles and that white belt on your leotard and I just don’t think this is the direction a world-class athlete and multiple-gold medal winner should be going with his life. And man, fire you damn agent on the way outta here.”

This is one music video that could have used one, if not several, Kanye West interruptions.

4 ’84 Chicago Bears – “Super Bowl Shuffle”
When I was 11, I had to make a music video for class. I did the saxophone solo like #33 Calvin Thomas does in the video. I got a C- on that video. That seems about right…

3 Shaquille O’Neal – “Strait Playin’”
Every time I see Shaq out of uniform, he seems to have turned into Bugs Bunny. He’s campy and fun, but honestly, he need to step out of the Looney Tunes cartoons and into the real world where he has no discernible music talent.

I mean take this video for example. Shaq always claims to just want to have fun, but some of what he thinks is fun just ends up turning out be weird. One second our fearless rapper is riding around in front of the worst green screen of all-time while dressed like a seven foot tall version of Judge Smails and the next second a woman is dancing in a bathroom and then two seconds later a different woman is riding one of those toy rocket ship kid rides you find outside the dollar store in the same exact bathroom. Then there is a party with a big circular fuzzy bed and strobe lights and then back in the car with another guy and finally in the car with another guy a few women and now one of the women has a snake. Wait where did that snake come from?

Photo goes to non-embeddable YouTube video

It’s safe to say that when Shaq isn’t missing the better portion of his free-throws or penning the script for Kazaam 2 (God help us) Shaq is out making terrible music videos. It’s so bad that I can’t even embed it here. You have to go check it out on Youtube.

2 Oscar De La Hoya – “Run to Me”
This video is actually shot pretty well (finally a director that knows what he is doing) for an athlete video and it’s probably because De La Hoya actually sounds decent enough to give the video a budget, but man, how can a guy so nimble in the ring look so horrifically stiff and uncomfortable while dancing to a song he helped write. He looks like he could possibly be drunk or a stiff breeze is blowing his tiny frame in a different direction or the director possibly stapled his feet to the ground…I dunno. All I know, is that he was a monster in the ring and you’d think the quick feet and rhythm would carry over to the dance floor, but not in Oscar’s case.

And why does everyone of Spanish decent have to sing like Enrique Iglesias? In this video Oscar sounds a lot like Enrique sounds; who in turn, sounds very similar to his father, Julio Iglesias; who of course sounded a lot like a Hispanic version of Barry Manilow.

I don’t know why this is or if there is even a term for it, but I know that candles, a tight see-thu shirt and enough candles to cause fire safety concerns make this video kinda girly. Would I say that to his face? No. Would I say this to Barry Manilow’s face? Maybe. Is there time for a Vegas style duet before the next Manny Pacquiao fight? Most certainly!

Much like the many boxers who fought De La Hoya in his heyday, I am asking “No Mas, Oscar!”

1 Kobe Bryant – “K.O.B.E.”

Kobe Bryant + Tyra Banks + NBA All-Star Weekend = Tears in my eyes, earplugs in my ears and shotgun in my mouth.

Remembering the greatness that was Bo Jackson

Douglas Charles — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:00:00 +0000

With the NFL training camps getting into full swing now and players gearing up for another big season I thought I would take a moment to remember the man who had he not gotten injured might have gone on to be one of the greatest running backs of all-time. No other running back in my memory combined power, agility and speed better than one Vincent Edward “Bo” Jackson.

Bo’s greatest runs in the NFL

Bo’s greatest runs in college

Of course, Bo also had a little help from Nike in building his popular image. Anyone remember the ‘Bo Knows’ ads?

A whole lotta Bo’s

Bo don’t know Diddley

Bo gets an assist from George Foreman

And of course, Bo’s legend grew even more thanks to the greatest sports video game ever, Tecmo Bowl.

From Wikipedia–
In his four [partial] 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 40 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 Night Football record.

Oh yeah, he also played a little baseball too… both before and AFTER a hip replacement. The man is a true sports legend.