For the non-US people, Bo Jackson is a retired professional baseball and gridiron football player, one of a few to ever achieve top level success in multiple pro sports. He also found a degree of success in several other sports such as track and field, and cycling. Hence the ad text.
As far as I can tell, he remained wholesome after he aged out of pro sports. After his sports career he went on to get a BS in Family and Child Development, started a charity bike ride to help victims of tornadoes and other natural disaster in Alabama called Bo Bikes Bama, and has donated significant money to various other worthy causes over the years.
Seems like a good dude. Please don’t tell me if there’s some weird scandal I never heard of. I want to believe some people are just generally good for the world.
This is officially the least vintage ad I’ve posted.
If he had focused on baseball, and skipped football, he never would have gotten an injury like that, and would have had a LONG career, as one of the best.
Football is a brutal sport. All those guys that make it to the majors are lottery winners. There are 5x that many who were just as good, but their careers ended in high school or college with a serious injury that ended any potential for a pro career.
For sure. I think Bo himself has said that if we knew then what we know now about CTE, he never would have gone into a football career.