Beasty wrote:
Bo went out with Avascular necrosis, for which one of the primary causes is excessive steroid use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avascular_necrosis
The article does not say "primary cause". It says "proposed risk factors"-big difference.
You do know how he got the injury, right?
I don't think 38 games qualifies as a valid sample to calculate career yards-per-carry. That's barely 2 full seasons.
Every entry on your attached all-time list has -3X-4X more carries and yards.
Using your argument, Brian Jordan's 5 INT's in 36 games rank him with the all-time great DB's....
I bet if we scoured the stats for all 2 season players at many positions, we could make lots of equally silly claims.
ok. fire away and find some more rbs who averaged 5.4 yards/carry in 38 games. i'll take the other side of your bet. why do people constantly make these ridiculous conjectures on the internet without a single shred of support?
the whole point is that bo was brilliant in so many sports but it was such a short period of time so nobody will ever know how great he could have been. nobody is claiming that he had a better career than barry sanders.
Here are two RB's --- Spec Sanders (30 games and 40 TD's) and Marion Motley (46 games and 39 TD's)--- both with equally short careers.
I didn't bother to look at other positions -- QB, WR, DB, K, P, DE, LB, etc.
So, Bo wasn't even tops in flash-in-pan RB's, much less players who had a productive career.
We've already established Bo was (at best) a marginal baseball player by any measure.
And, see, I did that without resorting to ad hominem attacks.
So, we established.....
At FB, Deion was better than Bo and Brian Jordan was equal to Bo.
At BB, Deion was equal to Bo and Brian Jordan was better than Bo.
Leading to Deion > Bo and Brain Jordan > 0. So, of the 3 modern era FB/BB players, Bo was the lowest performing.
Both Deion and Bo had marginal career baseball stats, with no HOF chances.
Bo's short-term FB stats were matched by Brian Jordan at DB and 2 forgotten RB's, and likely other short-term performers across the other positions.
are you trying to be an idiot or is it unintentional? spec sanders played in the 1940s. marion motley played 10 years in the nfl in the 1940s and 1950s and is in the football HOF. the fact that you (1) want to compare stats from players in the 40s and 50s to the stats of modern day players and (2) think that someone in the HOF is a "flash-in-pan [sic]" shows how truly clueless you are.
btw, these aren't ad hominem attacks as they are based on your ridiculous posts (it might behoove you to look up the term so you can properly use it in the future).
I bow to your superior intellect and reasoning skills.
Since I'm an idiot, please remind me how many HOF votes Bo received for football and baseball?
By your reasoning, I assume you've already placed CJ Spiller in the running back pantheon. (5.5 YPC). And perhaps RGIII and Cam Newton should retire now to keep their #1 and # 2 slot on the all-time team vs. Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Joe Montana.
And, gosh, Ralph Sampson was awesome wasn't he? I heard he was really tall and if scored for 15 years like he did in that one game, he'd be in HOF too.
And, remember that shot Keith Smart made? Man, the Bulls should've picked him up instead of that guy from UNC.
Or, maybe more to the point.... you probably rate Anna Nicole Smith as the greatest actress ever.... she was really 'talented'
I apologize for my stupidity of rating players based on their actual performance vs. how they looked at the combine or on 30 seconds of highlight reel for 3 plays.
One last time....
Bo Jackson FB Stats - Rushing
Season 1 554 yds total 79 yds per game
Season 2 580 yds total 58 yds per game
Season 3 950 yds total 86 yds per game
Season 4 698 yds total 70 yds per game
0 times All-Pro 1st Team
16 total career TD's (14 rush/2 receive)---- 30 players have rushed for 17 or more TD's in ONE SEASON
Maybe you could compare him to all players who never made 1st team All-Pro..., but you can't rationally compare him to players who actually accomplished something
Perhaps if he made All Pro once or twice or averaged 100+ yards a game or rushed for more than 1000 yards in a few season or scored 20 TD's combined in one season.....but the stats above are a long ways away
slowmo10 wrote:
I wish that beach scene with Bo Derek involved watching her run a longer distance.
+1
Bo knows nose wrote:
I bow to your superior intellect and reasoning skills.
Since I'm an idiot, please remind me how many HOF votes Bo received for football and baseball?
By your reasoning, I assume you've already placed CJ Spiller in the running back pantheon. (5.5 YPC). And perhaps RGIII and Cam Newton should retire now to keep their #1 and # 2 slot on the all-time team vs. Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Joe Montana.
And, gosh, Ralph Sampson was awesome wasn't he? I heard he was really tall and if scored for 15 years like he did in that one game, he'd be in HOF too.
And, remember that shot Keith Smart made? Man, the Bulls should've picked him up instead of that guy from UNC.
Or, maybe more to the point.... you probably rate Anna Nicole Smith as the greatest actress ever.... she was really 'talented'
I apologize for my stupidity of rating players based on their actual performance vs. how they looked at the combine or on 30 seconds of highlight reel for 3 plays.
i never referred to bo as a HOF member or HOF quality -- you were the one who made the asinine comment that a HOF member with a 10-year career was a "flash-in-pan [sic]." nice try and nice strawman argument though.
you should apologize to everyone on here for being a moron and making idiotic posts.
Bo knows nose wrote:
One last time....
Bo Jackson FB Stats - Rushing
Season 1 554 yds total 79 yds per game
Season 2 580 yds total 58 yds per game
Season 3 950 yds total 86 yds per game
Season 4 698 yds total 70 yds per game
0 times All-Pro 1st Team
16 total career TD's (14 rush/2 receive)---- 30 players have rushed for 17 or more TD's in ONE SEASON
Maybe you could compare him to all players who never made 1st team All-Pro..., but you can't rationally compare him to players who actually accomplished something
Perhaps if he made All Pro once or twice or averaged 100+ yards a game or rushed for more than 1000 yards in a few season or scored 20 TD's combined in one season.....but the stats above are a long ways away
do you have a small penis? the anger you exude in your posts over bo jackson and his short but remarkable career lead me to believe you need to get out and get laid some more. use that 3 incher the way god intended you to rather than only in the autoerotic way you must be very skilled at.
This guy really hates Bo Jackson for some reason. Probably an Alabama fan.
Bo was an amazing all around athlete. His stats don't reflect his true ability. Watch a Bo Jackson montage on YouTube sometime to watch his pure athleticism.