Bo Jackson

Just how fast was Bo Jackson?

Was he faster than Gatlin?

you could easily hand off to him, run back to your own endzone, then run the entire length of the field past all of the other defenders. answer: blazing.

someone should time him from endzone to endzone and do the conversion.

bo knows (or knew) roids.

He was faster than Larry Gatlin but slower than Justin Gatlin.

what you mean most athletic 28 year olds don't break their hip?

You guys can trash him, but he could be the greatest athlete to ever live.

One of a few:

Michael Jordan

Jim Brown

Terrell Owens (hahaha, kidding)

Bo was not on the juice. Why do you losers think that anyone big and muscular and fast is on the juice? I remember seeing Bo in Sports Illustrated Faces in the Crowd when he was in high school. He looked like a man back then. He broke his hip because he took a helmet right to the hip while his leg was extended. It does not take more than 12 pounds of pressure to break a femur when applied correctly. That is why a pitbull or a rotty can break a femur with their jaws.

TECMO!!!!!!!!

was he faster than LT?

Bo in Tecmo 1 was undoubtedly the greatest video-game athlete of all time.

bo was a track guy in h.s.:

http://www.al.com/south/sports3.html

A two-time state high school decathlon champion, Jackson set state records in the 60-yard hurdles, the 120-yard hurdles, and the long jump.

So fast, someone could pick my play and I'd still bust from 10+ every carry. Game dominates.

That game was pretty unreal. I was a big fan of Neal Anderson and the mighty chicago bears

Man I wish I was 8 years old again (sometimes)

Phillips wrote:

You guys can trash him, but he could be the greatest athlete to ever live.

Maybe most talented, but certainly not the greatest.

Tecmo Super Bowl (the second one):

Greatest game ever. I miss it. I really do.

no wrote:

Maybe most talented, but certainly not the greatest.

You want a versatile athlete? How about a guy who, while at UCLA, was conference basketball scoring leader , led the nation in yards per rush, was the world leader & national champ in the long jump, and then went on to be a 6-time major league all-star and won an NL MVP.

Who? Jackie Robinson.

I agree that he was the greatest athlete in video game history. 81 speed on Super techmo bowl (I haven't played the game in probably 3 or 4 years and I can still remember that), and the agility only bettered by Barry Sanders. I have a feeling Bo was the kind of guy that if he could run 10.1 in the 100 meters with no pads then he could probably still have run 10.2 with pads on. His game speed running the ball and in the outfield were almost for sure faster then Gatlin's would be in those same sports. So my guess is this, no he probably wasn't faster than Gatlin in track sprinting, but sprinting within the boundaries of any other sport I would say he probably was.

I'm as close to unbeatable as they come in Tecmo Super Bowl. When i was in college my neighbors and I played season upon season in TSB for super nintendo. It was amazing. Same game as TSB for nintendo but with slightly updated rosters. They had to make a rule that we weren't allowed to sack the QB from the nose guard cause I could do it (unless you pick a play action play but if you do that my whole D sacks you) as soon as you snapped the ball. One season I had 117 sacks w/ my noseguard. true story.

Sleeper team- Houston Oilers. They had Warren Moon QBing and 4 super receivers.

In the original Tecmo Bo was silly good. However, as good as he was at running the ball (a previous poster said it best- gain 10 yards whenst play was picked) LT was that good on D. Seriously sick. Was he the only guy that could block an extra point?

In STB I could sometimes get down with the Nigerian Nightmare Christian Okoye. He'd bounce people with the quickness. My team was Buffalo though. Very balanced w/ Thurman in the backfield, Jim Kelly QBing, Lofton and Reed out wide.... I'd usually rock either Bruce Smith, Biscuit Bennet or Nate Odoms on D.

You can't beat me.

BTW, my best video game is NHL 94. DO NOT MESS WITH ME. Obviously followed closely by last years NCaa football and Tecmo.

EA Sports Guy, I live in MA. I will drive up to 1 hr to meet you and play you in a best of 7 series in NHL 94 for sega for a prize which you determine.

But keeping inline with TSB, there was actually a better running back that Bo. I know i'm going to catch a lot of flack for this one, but if you were the falcons and switched andre rison to a running back, you could set up in the I formation, toss it out to him and it was a touchdown EVERY TIME. I once rushed for 690 yards on one game with him.

PS - Steven "Touchdown maker" Baker was a sick receiver when you put him in a slant!