There's evidence that Jackson did not attend the combine, such as it was, in 1986.There's no question that Jackson was one of the fastest running backs and greatest athletes in NFL history. "I was a diver at Auburn in 87-90... And I had just missed Bo's hay day here at Auburn. Coaches and scouts have told me stories of measuring 40-yard tracks at colleges and discovering they weren't quite 40 yards. "Even if the 4.12 is a bad time, which I don't think it is, the guy can fly. I still think back on how effortless it was for Bo to pull that off... And I just say WOW!! It's possible that Jackson ran in one or more special sessions for scouts.Meanwhile, teams making multimillion dollar decisions were timing one of the greatest athletes in American college history with hand stopwatches, under conditions which may or may not have been standardized, with no cameras in sight. He comes up and we were all clapping in amazement!!
Diving is a sport that very few people have a gift for mainly because it takes a tremendous amount of kinesthetic awareness... (knowing where your body is in space) It all happens in a micro seconds... And it takes a very long time to master.I think the best story of the special last night was the gentleman that recounted when he heard Bo blast a home run right after joining the Royals, that he had only heard that sound off the bat two times before; one of which was Babe Ruth.That should have been in the 30/30 show! "He kicks out perfectly and goes straight in on his head!!
I couldn't @#$@ing believe my EYES!! Bo knew football, but football knew Bo all too briefly. 1 pick in the draft and figured he had little to gain by attending. I knew I had just witnessed something so special that I would never see the likes of it for the rest of my life...Anyway after watching us dive for a while BO walks over to our coach and says "Hey do you think I can try that? Buffington stated that Jackson's other run from that session clocked at 4.22 seconds. I'd never seen Bo that close in person before. BLESTO and National Scouting joined forces in 1985 to prevent college prospects from having to attend multiple events.It all makes him a magnet for urban legends. Then they gave you a group of these flexibility tests. There is also no question that the most official sources of the era recorded a 40-yard dash that would have pushed Jackson past Usain Bolt.The article also drops a bombshell: "Among those who did not show up was running back Bo Jackson, who promises to be the No. Thing is, many of his larger-than-life feats really did happen.The number appears in many post-draft roundup articles of the era, which means it was disseminated to the press on mimeographed fact sheets that made up the sum total of draft wisdom nearly 30 years ago.Bo knew football, but football knew Bo all too briefly.First you had to bench-press 225 pounds as many times as you could. Really good show last night on ESPN, too. - "I can't wait to watch this!!! I'm thinking "Bo is about to bust he ass!" Jackson did participate in the Senior Bowl, which took place within days of the combine that year and always drew a huge scouting presence. That's a surprisingly tricky question to answer. He asked the our coach if he could stay and of course he said "yes! So Sherrard was running a 4.36 in October, broke a collarbone, missed the rest of the season (and, presumably, tons of training sessions), then somehow became 0.13 of a second faster than his previous best—and faster than Willie Gault—at the late-January combine?But what about the most amazing one of all?Even back then, anyone who attended the combine took a physical; that was the point, as scouting services still did the bulk of their evaluation during the college football season.Did Bo really run a 4.12-second 40-yard dash at the 1986 combine? !That is an awesome story. He truly was one of the greatest that I got to see in person, in the pros, etc, etc! I know a little about what it takes to be elite in all of those sports...Thanks for sharing your story, I always love to hear Bo stories.
"Chiefs QB taking notes on placing No. "War Eagle Bo you are truly amazing!To me it was incredible to watch. Nobody in the 27 years that we've been in this business has ever gone that fast. In fact, there's evidence that Jackson's 40 time was not the only hinky one of the era.So when did Jackson run for Buffington and his scouts? Long before that, Bergonzoli explained, companies like Longines were mounting timing gates on ski slopes, to say nothing of racing tracks, to provide precise splits and results for Olympic events.To kick off a Bleacher Report series on the urban legends of the NFL, today we examine what we know, can guess and can conclude about the Bo's great dash.Harry Buffington, scouting legend and director of what was then called the National Combine, attested the time's accuracy to Dorman. Sherrard broke his collarbone against USC on October 25, 1985.After the draft, an AP report listed Sherrard's 40 time as 4.23 seconds; the time almost certainly came from the BLESTO-National Scouting conglomerate. 1 "With a stopwatch, a few hundredths of a second is nothing," Bergonzoli said.