Bo Jackson - "If I knew back then what I know now, I would have never played football"

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

Guess Bo....



Didn't know

This actually sounds like a hot take skip would make

Anyways when is this overdramatizing of football going to stop?

 

[UserNameless]

fukk Bo. . . Nobody hitting him in the mouth for eating fat back sandwiches or drinking his bourbon and whiskey.

 

[UserNameless]

The first time I played organized football I was 13. The first time I played as a starter I was 14. You don't need a doctor to study a sport for years to understand what kinda damage it's doing. I just paid attention to myself for those first 2 years. Here's the first symptoms where I figured I need to name a price at that point and get out early. again, I was 14:
- After my first game as a starter I was so sore I actually couldn't leave my bed the entire next day
- By the end of the season it took 5 or 6 days to recover (if some of y'all could see how helpless players are the day after you'd understand)
- The first time I was unconscious on the field I was 14. They picked me back up, slapped me on the ass, and told me to keep playing. That literally made me think they didn't care about my safety so I needed to fend for myself.
- I couldn't really move my shoulders for months after the season ended.

So at 14 I made a plan:
No more tackling with my head. I worked on technique to always use my shoulders and hands. I was ok with sacrificing my shoulders for contact because I could always get them back to normal. I was taller than more people I tackled so I could use my height to avoid head contact if I used my hands as a way to get first contact then drive with my feet. Also, I figured out early if you break down when running up to an RB they usually tend to do the same so I was never really doing full speed tackles much until college......that said, it is still football so it wasn't a perfect plan. One day I hit a guy so hard my right eye was looking in the wrong direction (up and to the right.....my left eye was still looking straight. yes. I knocked myself cockeyed. full blown jack thriller) and I literally couldn't see straight for 10 minutes. I kept blinking and my eye slowly started moving back into place. Later, a doctor told me I didn't something horrific to one of my orbital muscles. It's shyt like that where if you're paying any sort of attention you know.


I'm 35. We didn't have concussion protocols. We had a doctor that asked you your name, address, and literally held up fingers. When people got concussions we used to laugh at how much shyt they forgot. I didn't like the thought of the stupid/forgetful feeling going away. I never trusted doctors to tell me the right thing because I saw how much they ignored so someone could get back on the field.

I wouldn't take none of shyt back either though. It was a fun sport. I just knew that no one in it cared about my well being so I tried to play in a way that sorta kinda protected me.

Barbaric .

 

[NYC Rebel]

Check the numbers by average nikka

Oww because Bo jumped on wall makes him a better player ass nikkas.

I was watching Deion since he and Mel Hall were man's on the Yankees.



Don't put that corny "he ran up the wall" crap in my mouth. How old were you when they played? You datamining? Youtubing?

I didn't know I had to spell out to you that I'm talking about pre-injury Bo.

 

[FaTaL]

RIP to his hip


He's probably full of regret after losing all that money

 

[El Bombi]

I was watching Deion since he and Mel Hall were man's on the Yankees.



Don't put that corny "he ran up the wall" crap in my mouth. How old were you when they played? You datamining? Youtubing?

I didn't know I had to spell out to you that I'm talking about pre-injury Bo.

Numbers by average says otherwise bro.

 

[Robbo]

Numbers by average says otherwise bro.

what specific numbers are you going by? Deions numbers aren't great. nobody ever talked about deion as a hall of fame caliber baseball player while he was playing.

 

[Knicksman20]

I don't think I could live in a world without Tecmo Bo

When I was a kid we used to call him UnstoppaBo

 

[Rekkapryde]

Nah bruh anybody knows ramming into another human(huge human in his case) is going to do damage. fukk outta here man

you giving cats way too much credit.

throughout history there's been tons of shyt that cats should've known wasn't good, but truly didn't really know the consequences

 

[resurrection]

I've said this before. I knew the sport was dangerous when I was 14. You know the toll early. Any oldhead pretending like they didn't know there'd be long term consequences is full of shyt.

I was never a serious player myself, but this is what I've always thought as well. Who doesn't know that going thru repeated straight on collisions between large, strong, athletic humans has long term consequences? It's the price you pay to possibly get rich playing a sport, be famous, be worshiped during your career and maybe even after, be able to take care of generations of your family, etc.

 

[El Bombi]

what specific numbers are you going by? Deions numbers aren't great. nobody ever talked about deion as a hall of fame caliber baseball player while he was playing.

His numbers by average are better than Bo.

But y'all are calling Bo a Hall of Famer tho.

 

[NYC Rebel]

Numbers by average says otherwise bro.

Exactly.
Datamining.

Pre injury, Bo was far and away a better player than Deion.

 

[BlackAchilles]

Anyone who thinks Deion was on Bo's level as a baseball player is an idiot

Bo was a one of the top outfielders in the league during his brief peak, Deion was always just a 4th OF/pinch hit/run guy

 

[NYC Rebel]

Bo was a one of the top outfielders in the league during his brief peak, Deion was always just a 4th OF/pinch hit/run guy

That's what I'm saying.

Deion came off the bench and here dude is saying "look at the numbers" minus any context or watching of the game.

Bo was twice the defender Deion was too. He had a CANNON.

 

[El Bombi]

Bo was a one of the top outfielders in the league during his brief peak, Deion was always just a 4th OF/pinch hit/run guy