Did Bo Jackson Really Run a 4.12 40?

converts 6.74 for 60m

what we know wrote:

converts 6.74 for 60m

If he ran 6.18 for 55 meters, then there is no way he ran a 4.12 for 36.5 meter or 40 yards. Christian Coleman is 6.34 pB and ran 6.37 as well for 60 meters for consistency. Jackson's time converts to 6.64 for 60 meters. There's no way someone who is able to run a 4.12 40 can't run a 6.4 - 6.5 60.
If the argument is that Jackson improved since he ran 6.18 in college, this is not sufficient since we can only judge what his results would be from official electronic times.
My presumed guess is 4.3 40 from his 55 meter time.
Sources:
https://www.freelapusa.com/bo-jackson-40-time/
http://www.ustfccca.org/assets/track-event-conversions-standardized.pdf

BJ was nowhere near as quick to 40 as is CC.

Nowhere near.

I agree. At best Jackson’s 40 time was hand timed, meaning it is very imprecise.

Bro that someone not too great was usain bolt on mark to hit his WR tf you mean lol.

Bob Hayes

Darrell Green

Tyreek Hill

The three fastest NFL players are above.

Could Bo even beat Herschel in the 40 back in the day?

No.

Bo knows T&F wrote:

It is reasonable to believe Vincent "Bo" Jackson. No one sprints 100m on natural talent. It takes a lot of hard work, sprint coordination drills and other exercises, working on running form to sprint 100m well. Bo was in Runner's World, first when he was 14 for T&F. Bo Jackson was an indoor T&F legend in high school. World class sprinters have nothing on elite football players in a 40 yard dash.

Except when Coleman absolutely destroyed the 40yd dash WR when he tried it lol. Even the fastest football players can't even touch world class sprinters.

Cuckoldistan wrote:

Bo knows T&F wrote:

It is reasonable to believe Vincent "Bo" Jackson. No one sprints 100m on natural talent. It takes a lot of hard work, sprint coordination drills and other exercises, working on running form to sprint 100m well. Bo was in Runner's World, first when he was 14 for T&F. Bo Jackson was an indoor T&F legend in high school. World class sprinters have nothing on elite football players in a 40 yard dash.

Except when Coleman absolutely destroyed the 40yd dash WR when he tried it lol. Even the fastest football players can't even touch world class sprinters.

I knew you skinny fat joggers could not resist responding to me.

When Justin Gatlin was suspended from T&F for PEDs, he had his fling with N.F.L. Gatlin was only a Combine 4.45 40 yard dash man per N.F.L. standards. That tells me Gatlin put on weight for N.F.L. Bo Jackson played football at 6'1" 230 pounds. Obviously, if Bo Jackson believed being T&F fit were important, Bo Jackson would have chosen to be much slimmer. You gals & guys can have fun speculating but you gals & guys know in your heart, if Bo thought it was important to be a world class sprinter, Bo would have been a world class sprinter. A (210 to 215) pound Bo Jackson along with a few months of doing 6 x 50s & 6 x 150s, Bo Jackson would have been as fast as anyone.

Paul Bunyan wrote:

What were the circumstances of Coleman's 40 yard dash? Was it timed the same way, or was it FAT?

Back in Bo's day they used to hand time with an abacus.

Go knows T&F is far closer to reality than you T&F fanboys are.

Bo was a freak, is 4.13 correct? I don't know, but it's close, and don't compare 100 times, Bo's best distance would be the 40 yard variety, his explosion & power was ridiculous.

BTW, way faster than Walker over 40. Herschel needed some a few yards to unwind it. Bo was Tyreke Hill in a 230 pound package, and he didn't beat women.

In actuality, it was the combine guys that reported his time of 4.12 (or 13 depending on the source). Bo wasn't one to blag about his athletic exploits, and has generally told it like it is over the years...

That said, if I'm not mistaken the standard back then was hand-timing with two or more watches... that doesn't necessarily speak to the legitimacy of his clocking, but unlike sprint events in track and field (where the timer's reaction to the gun and the athlete's reaction time factor in), hand-timing is reasonably accurate under these circumstances.

In any case, I give him anywhere between 4.09-4.20... at the worst it was still a blazing fast run, and a combine record at the time.

I both doubt that Bo could be a world class sprinter, that he ever ran a 4.12s (it was hand timed which can be fast by 0.5s), and doubt that you are anything better than a 16 minute 5k runner who was ok in high school.

Bo knows T&F wrote:

It is reasonable to believe Vincent "Bo" Jackson. No one sprints 100m on natural talent. It takes a lot of hard work, sprint coordination drills and other exercises, working on running form to sprint 100m well. Bo was in Runner's World, first when he was 14 for T&F. Bo Jackson was an indoor T&F legend in high school. World class sprinters have nothing on elite football players in a 40 yard dash.

Stop it.

Yo are an idiot.

As an aside, Ian Campbell, (Australian Olympic triple jumper, WSU) used to run 3.9 regularly.

No one was faster over 40 than he was.

Coleman could run sub 4 as well.

Dr. Pepper wrote:

Bob Hayes

Darrell Green

Tyreek Hill

The three fastest NFL players are above.

Could Bo even beat Herschel in the 40 back in the day?

You sorta forgot a few other faster NFL players. Except for Darrel Green, Alexander Wright, Michael Bates and Ron Brown were in the top 5.

sbeefyk2 wrote:

I forgot the name of the sprinter (someone good but not great), but someone a year or two ago timed himself running 3.93 for the 40. I suspect Bo's time is similar. Add two tenths and that would be the real time for both. 4.32 for Bo (a running back) would be about right. Chris Johnson is the fastest good running back to ever play the game and he ran 4.24. There's not a chance Bo could keep up with Chris Johnson. So 4.32 is probably the accurate time.

Not a year or two ago but do you mean Walter Dix?

Bo might have run 4.13 but on the same protocol as Coleman with self-start but electronic timing, it would have been 4.37, which is possible. John Ross has the combine record at 4.22. Bama's Ruggs ran 4.27 today. Bo's time converts to slower than them, but he was a monster athlete at 6'1" 230.

Could Christian do this?

https://youtu.be/Td4h2BCc1t0

How many more days until he's allowed to evade another drug test, anyway?