Bo jackson net worth
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Bo Jackson
They were ubiquitous. They were funny. And for a while during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Nike commercials that showed Bo Jackson playing everything from baseball to cricket to hockey — wearing the uniform of the storied Montreal Canadiens no less — brought the phrase “Bo Knows” into popular culture.
These commercials played on Jackson’s astounding athletic abilities. His abundant speed, power, agility, and quickness allowed him to play in the NFL and baseball’s major leagues. Although he wasn’t the first athlete to play two sports professionally — Jim Thorpe holds that distinction — he was the first to become an All-Star in the two leagues in which he played and the first to rise to prominence in the media-driven sports world of the late twentieth century.1
Bo Jackson was born on November 30, 1962, in Bessemer, Alabama, the eighth of Florence Jackson Bond’s 10 children born. A fan of the television show Ben Casey, Florence, who worked as a housekeeper, named her son Vincent Edward Jackson, after the show’s star, Vince Edwards.2 Young Vincent could neve
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Bo Jackson
American football and baseball player (born 1962)
Not to be confused with Boo Jackson.
Bo Jackson | |
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Jackson in 2011 | |
| Born | (1962-11-30) November 30, 1962 (age 62) Bessemer, Alabama, U.S. |
American football player American football career | |
| Position: | Running back |
| Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Weight: | 230 lb (104 kg) |
| High school: | McAdory (McCalla, Alabama) |
| College: | Auburn (1982–1985) |
| NFL draft: | 1986 / round: 1 / pick: 1[a] |
College Football Hall of Fame | |
Baseball player Baseball career | |
| Outfielder / Designated hitter | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
| September 2, 1986, for the Kansas City Royals | |
| August 10, 1994, for the California Angels | |
| Batting average | .250 |
| Home runs | 141 |
| Runs batted in | 415 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
Vincent Edward "Bo" Jackson (born November 30, 1962) is an American former professional baseball and football player. He is the only professional
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Special to ESPN.com
There have been others - from Jim Thorpe to Deion Sanders. But even now, almost a decade after he played his last football game and six years since his last baseball game, Bo Jackson is still considered by many to be "the man" among multi-sport athletes. Memories of Jackson linger, and not just because an ad campaign made "Bo Knows" a mantra. There was that Monday Night Football touchdown run through Seattle's Brian Bosworth in 1988. There was the 1989 All-Star Game home run, which he hit while Ronald Reagan was in the TV booth describing it.
| Jackson had 415 career RBIs. |
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