Bo played 4 seasons in the NFL before his injury -1987 - 1990, his injury came in a playoff game in January 1991. He played in MLB from 1986 until 1994, sitting out the entire 1992 season after he underwent a complete hip replacement. The whole story of why he did not play in the NFL in 1986 is one that I'll let you look up.
The seasons overlap for baseball and football. Baseball begns with pre season in February and runs through October. Football begins preseason in July and runds through February. Jackson would play for Kansas City Royals during the week in baseball and then for Oakland Raiders on Sunday for part of the year.
It’s difficult to compare athletes from different times, I’d say Thorpe was the best of his era, while Jackson 70 pr 75 years later was the best of his. The season do overlap somewhat, plus Jackson would miss football training camp, which he probably didn’t mind. If Kansas City made the playoffs it would interfere with football, I don’t remember exactly how they handled these timing issues. Hopefully making these video are helping during these crazy times. Keep up the good work ☮️
Nah. But Thorpe set the Greatness ball in motion, for sure. Bo, Wilt, Lebron, Dion are in a class by themselves in terms of all around athletic ability and gifts. Yeah, I said Lebron. You probably never saw him play football. Put him on a track and he'd probably own WRs in the 200, 400, and 800, assuming he didn't do the decathlon. He's nowhere near MJ in basketball but as an athlete Lebron is on another physically.
in the heat of the moment, it is easy to call the fair haired, popular child, "the greatest of all time". but the questions i would ask are, "was he a groundbreaker? was he a record breaker? have his records withstood a generation?" in the regard of being a groundbreaker, he certainly was. nobody before had ever played high-level NFL and MLB at the same time. as for being a record breaker, he did smash some. does these make him "the greatest of all time"? i don't think so. it certainly makes him a major, high-level athlete for the proverbial books. but, the last question is yet to be answered.
