Whatever happend to Bo Jackson?

[focusyn]

?

 

[Mill]

Injuries. Namely his Hip.

 

[codeyf]

He was in the softball game during this years all star weekend.

 

[Parrotheader]

Isn't he selling some sort of consumer product he co-owns now? I saw him on an interview awhile back and he promoted something at the end.

 

[Corporate Thug]

he got injured, and says farewell to sports

 

[DurocShark]

Bo knows teh intarweb

 

[T3C]

i dunno

 

[Queasy]

He's mainly living quietly off the money he amassed from football, baseball, commercials, and endorsements. He spends time with his family, hunts, fish, and you'll occasionally see him pop up at some event....rare though.

 

[ThaGrandCow]

Bo knows unemployment

 

[boyRacer]

Dammit... i was thinking of Bo Derek.

 

[cjchaps]

I say him a year or two back while I was playing golf. We let him play through... He can really whack a golf ball.

 

[pyonir]

He is actually a partner in some type of food service company. There was an article on him in Sports Illustrated a couple weeks ago. he spends a lot of his time on that company, cooking and hunting.

 

[Beau]

http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016045.html

His career ended all too quietly when that season was cut short by a players strike. Not long after, his "Bo Knows" campaign for Nike, once a loud voice on the advertising landscape, ended just as quietly. Before the 1995 season began, Jackson retired from pro sports.

"God has his way of opening up our eyes to see reality," he said. "The way He opened my eyes is to allow me to have this hip injury. That is a rough way to go, but I had to accept the fact."

Keeping a promise he made to his mother before she died of cancer in 1992, Jackson went back to Auburn and graduated in December 1995 with a bachelor of science degree in family and child development.

He opened a motorcycle shop outside Chicago and went into partnership with Charles Barkley on an Alabama restaurant. He serves as president of the Sports Medicine Council, a non-profit, youth outreach organization of HealthSouth Corporation.

 

[Mill]

His Non-Profit deal with Healthsouth is gonna go down the tubes! They have been cooking the books and are BROKE.

 

[Parrotheader]

I'm assuming he doesn't live here in Alabama anymore. Millennium, do you know?

I hear of Charles Barkley sitings all the time (he used to keep a house in Greystone I believe; wasn't that where Michael Jordan stayed when he was playing minor league baseball here?) but never hear many mentions of Bo Jackson's current whereabouts.

 

[PeteyCPU]

Sports Illustraded recently had a "where are they now" issue. Bo was on the cover.

 

[bolomite]

his company makes energy/protein bars or something

 

[Parrotheader]

Originally posted by: PeteyCPU
Sports Illustraded recently had a "where are they now" issue. Bo was on the cover.

He could've been one of the best running backs ever IMO. Incredible combination of speed, power and size. Not to mention his baseball crossover ability. I don't think he would've been quite as good at baseball over his entire career (an All-Star player for sure, but probably not Hall of Fame material) but he was still quite the athlete. He was the big man for Nike before Jordan became the next giant.

 

[Queasy]

Heh - anyone remember the saturday morning cartoon that featured Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson, and Wayne Gretzky? Hilariously bad.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: Parrotheader

Originally posted by: PeteyCPU
Sports Illustraded recently had a "where are they now" issue. Bo was on the cover.

He could've been one of the best running backs ever IMO. Incredible combination of speed, power and size. Not to mention his baseball crossover ability. I don't think he would've been quite as good at baseball over his entire career (an All-Star player for sure, but probably not Hall of Fame material) but he was still quite the athlete. He was the big man for Nike before Jordan became the next giant.

The most amazing thing in the SI article was that he said he has never lifted weights. :Q

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: Parrotheader

Originally posted by: PeteyCPU
Sports Illustraded recently had a "where are they now" issue. Bo was on the cover.

He could've been one of the best running backs ever IMO. Incredible combination of speed, power and size. Not to mention his baseball crossover ability. I don't think he would've been quite as good at baseball over his entire career (an All-Star player for sure, but probably not Hall of Fame material) but he was still quite the athlete. He was the big man for Nike before Jordan became the next giant.

The most amazing thing in the SI article was that he said he has never lifted weights. :Q

Nope. If I remember correctly, he put his sister on his back as a teenager to do pushups.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Heh - anyone remember the saturday morning cartoon that featured Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson, and Wayne Gretzky? Hilariously bad.

Pro Stars. I remember that one.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: Parrotheader

Originally posted by: PeteyCPU
Sports Illustraded recently had a "where are they now" issue. Bo was on the cover.

He could've been one of the best running backs ever IMO. Incredible combination of speed, power and size. Not to mention his baseball crossover ability. I don't think he would've been quite as good at baseball over his entire career (an All-Star player for sure, but probably not Hall of Fame material) but he was still quite the athlete. He was the big man for Nike before Jordan became the next giant.

The most amazing thing in the SI article was that he said he has never lifted weights. :Q

Nope. If I remember correctly, he put his sister on his back as a teenager to do pushups.

Hershel Walker did the same thing.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: pyonir


Hershel Walker did the same thing.

You're right. I think I've got the two swapped.

 

[focusyn]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: Queasy
Heh - anyone remember the saturday morning cartoon that featured Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson, and Wayne Gretzky? Hilariously bad.

Pro Stars. I remember that one.

yea, i think i remember that show. did they fight crime or something? or did they fight off bad athletes or something?