Bo Knows…
Posted by TFG on 8th April 2005
Adam at TRB ponders, Whatever happened to Bo Jackson? And nails it.
I don’t think anyone under the age of 25 or so can truly understand the phenomenon that was Bo Jackson. A Heisman Trophy winner, the #1 overall pick in the NFL draft, who decides to forego millions in the NFL because he’d rather play baseball. A guy who becomes one of the most dynamic blends of speed and power that baseball has ever seen, one of those rare players who you’d pay to watch strike out, just because he was such a mesmerizing presence.
Good stuff there.
I miss Bo Jackson. He was a hoss. I don’t know if he really could do anything he wanted to, but he sure made you believe that he could, and that he’d do it with a grin a mile wide, and best of all, that he’d be happy to sit and talk about it over a few cervezas with you.
Compare and contrast to the grim, Bosch-like, existential struggle of one Barry Bonds. More Bos, fewer Barrys, please.
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