Bo Jackson hits SUPERSTARDOM in the 1983 Iron Bowl

[@vernonhowell4485]

There will never be another voice like Keith Jackson! He was perfect for college football!

[@jamesholland1727]

Just wish the other announcer would shut up as hard to watch with his non stop blather

[@jonhenson5450]

Agreed, but what about ole Jack a Root ?

[@DudeEggs]

Absolutely

[@DudeEggs]

​@@jonhenson5450 I hear that he and Dick Trickle were great friends.

[@thedailygreatness]

So true. Him and John Madden. Jackson was perfect for college, Madden/Summerall perfect for the NFL.

[@jimtruscott5670]

I just wish Bo could have played 10 or more years in the NFL so I could watch the videos over and over again.

[@miked8227]

Or anywhere baseball field, hoops …..for that matter, he was the epitome of a true athlete. There was another one like him at Florida state but the name escapes me. Halogen Harry or something of that nature.😁

[@cr2802]

Amen...

[@haroldhausman1672]

He would have been the goat. No doubt in my mind. Though i do love me some barry sanders 😂

[@cr2802]

@@haroldhausman1672 Samer here!

[@Jas_Flash24]

for sure.. if he didnt have that hip injury, it would just be a matter of how many records he would of broken. he basically outplayed future hof with ease on the field. He’d probably be the goat rn. Arguably the best two sport athlete. never got a chance to see him at his full potential. running 4.13 40 at 220- 230lbs thats unimaginably impressive. the strength, conditioning and speed he was blessed with you cant compare that lol

[@RollinCoco-Nut]

Keith Jackson, Frank Broyles, and Bo Jackson ... As a college football fan, you can't ask for much more than that!

[@RickHorejsi]

Not even close , penix , odunze, McMillan and the Washington Huskies 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@adriengadson3544]

Bo and Walker probably the best backs at the same time ever in the SEC. Watched those games and both were speed demons with incredible size and strength...Those were great days.

[@phillipcotton833]

My 2 cents....BO& Walker the SEC's best PERIOD. Hands down!

[@algernon5776]

Absolutely 💯. Too bad Walker suffers from CTE; he really has lost his mind.

[@TimPerdue-n8w]

Sad about bo getting hurt ...again. ..with his current hip he has driving miss daisy speed

[@CubsWin2012]

100% natural too, no steroids.

[@BlazingShackles]

Walker never hit a major league home run or ran up an outfield wall. 😝😝😝

[@jodybradshaw3988]

The voice of Kieth Jackson on a fall afternoon the sound of my youth. How did the years slip away

[@stevesherman1743]

“Oh, my Mercy !”

[@MorganBrockway]

Whoa Nelly

[@ronskayakingandfishing414]

I"m a Bama fan first and foremost. But loved watching Bo Jackson.

[@mattbradford8227]

Me too. You had to pull for Bo. He's an exceptional person, even to this day.

[@wshow11]

Me too! Roll Tide! Go Bo!

[@Matt-xv2cp]

"Bo would have been the greatest running back in NFL history, had he stayed healthy" -Jim Brown

[@imuruncle27]

I concur

[@rdavideagan2311]

Barry Sanders was the best and there's no close second.

[@dg8994]

No doubt Bo would have been the all time best. Coming from Jim Brown that is one massive compliment.

[@dg8994]

@@rdavideagan2311😂

[@timrowe2290]

I agree, but he's said in multiple interviews that he likely would've retired from the nfl after that season.

[@j_atkinson]

Perfect blend of speed, power, and size!

[@jamesjohnson1522]

I watched Bo as a kid growing up. He is the reason i graduated from Auburn.

[@garce7039]

So good to hear Keith Jackson's voice. Takes me back to a much simpler time for me. For my money, Bo Jackson was the greatest athlete that ever lived.

[@kennethpreston9813]

I saw Bo run track in high school. I had never seen someone so big move that fast…. at that point he had a lot of baby fat and did not look like he trained especially hard. Just God given talent at that point. He was a man among boys in high school and college. As a Bama fan, I wish he could have stayed healthy and had a longer career.

[@BrianBailey-s6u]

Bo was a phenom. I remember this game, I was an 8 year old kid. Bo was my favorite sports hero as a kid growing up back then. I was so upset when he got hurt in ‘91. Arguably the greatest athlete in history. A great guy too.

[@boxingjerapah]

Bo Jackson and Lawrence Taylor are the only two players I have ever seen who look like they are playing as men against boys.

[@patrickshanahan7505]

The other players appear to be strolling whenever he takes off.

[@paulheaphy4228]

Earl and Czonka

[@geoffhart]

@@paulheaphy4228 Earl in his prime, another shooting star. And another one, Christian Okoye earned his nickname. Albert Haynes before he lost his appetite (for football ;). But Barry made many defenses look like children - more with grace than power, which helped him last until he got bored.

[@timrowe2290]

Reggie White and Adrian Peterson.

[@paulheaphy4228]

Jack Lambert , Larry Czonkaand Dick Butkus.... Hershey and ...Earl!

[@RollTideLBC]

Miss Keith Jackson calling games!!!!

[@quasar6235]

I think he should be in the hall of fame and not because lack of numbers but what he brought to the game of football!

[@ElijahGamble-w7d]

I agree with the. His athletic prowess was so legendary that fame was so attached to him for generations. Hall of fame, yeah.

[@pocobull]

Agreed. He was special, and transcended the game.

[@Zhukov-3]

Bo Jackson was a beast and he proved it!

[@stevenfarley4738]

a man among boys that day.

[@tcolgan12]

Was at this game and Bo walked by me in the hotel. Waht a specimen.

[@pamsmith9541]

Those of us who got to see Bo play live will never forget the poetry in motion, nor the intellect of reading and making plays where there were none. Couple that with an amazing defensive line...pure art!!

[@davidhampton4906]

To be able to see a Bo Jackson after seeing Hershel Walker, I truly think they were the 2 greatest college running backs in history. Being contemporaries makes it even more rare.

[@thedailygreatness]

25 carries for 255 yards out of the wishbone against Paul Bear Bryant's Bama defense. INSANE. Man I miss Keith Jackson, truly the Voice of College Football.

[@SECRETARIATguy224]

Bryant wasn't the coach of Alabama in 1983.

[@boydcochran4692]

Ran into Bo at Auburn in early 2000s and i rounded the corner at j&m I believe and there he was and my 22 yr old self turned into a kid again. I went to get my dad so he could see him, Bo walked by and I said “you the man” and he said….”no you the man” it was like the Beatles and Elvis all at once to someone who’s spent his whole 43 years bleeding burnt orange and navy blue

Same here buddy! War Damn Eagle 🦅

[@Shawntraci]

Bo Jackson was one of the all time greatest at RB!!!

[@brown55061]

Without the injury, he would have shattered records and been called the GOAT. Nobody was as good, and in multiple sports! Bo knows!

[@complexblackness]

No he wouldn't have. He wasn't dedicated to the pro game.

[@richardstephens5570]

He wouldn't have broke NFL records because he only played part time. His first love was baseball.

[@complexblackness]

@richardstephens5570 His legend is greater than his actual professional accomplishments.

[@rdavideagan2311]

Quick: how many NCAA, NFL, and MLB records does Bo hold? I'll wait.

[@snerdterguson]

Quick: go back and read the first three words of the comment you replied to. Then look up the definition it ion of the word "would".

[@purleybaker]

"Big, strong and very, very fast". That sums it up well.

[@mrvlsmrv]

Defenders had to use a different way of taking angles to try to catch him. Have fun tackling him if you catch him 😮😂😅

[@mattbradford8227]

I was 9 during this game. This was the first Iron Bowl after Bear Bryant died. The first half was sunny and breezy. The rain came in the second half. And Keith Jacksons first words of the start of the fourth quarter, was "we have a tornado warning". And Bo kept running. He could have run touchdowns in a hurricane on that day. Bama's defense got tired and got run over by #34.

[@socermomuva]

Thank you so so much for posting. This was such a great time in my life and a great time in college football. The game was more innocent and the players had so much fire and toughness. None more tougher than Vincent Bo Jackson. I saw him play in the 1985 iron bowl, in my opinion, he was the best of all time! What made him special. He was as good in the fourth quarter as he was in the first. great athlete.

[@Sterlingkataadem]

He is the greatest athlete I have ever seen.

[@grandduke2145]

Me Too

[@drbonesshow1]

Now he's fat and bald.

[@groupersti]

Human athlete...

[@lavellhall7650]

And if I'm not mistaken he was officially voted the greatest athlete of all time.

[@KALICOE]

Natural talent

[@odellgrimes1375]

Bo Jackson's the greatest all-around athlete there ever was

[@rickiefn1]

Arguably, however there was a man around the turn of the century (1900s) that was a pretty good athlete for his day . I believe his name was Jim Thorpe.

[@derek5499]

I agree 100%. I never saw Jim Thorpe but I did see Bo Jackson

[@nathandodge665]

There's no such thing

[@paulheaphy4228]

Have many times tried to disagree. Can't.

[@blaydeesy2005]

Only network tv would be interviewing the coach instead of watching Bo Jackson run 60 yard TDs

[@robotunes]

Not only that, it was a long, taped interview that they could have played before the game or during halftime. It was too long to play during the game. I was at this Iron Bowl, sitting in the end zone behind Auburn's offense. I could see how our defense was overpursuing every time Bo got the ball. At 2:03, I was silently praying to Bo "Don't turn to the right, don't turn to the right." And then he turned to the right. "Uh-oh," I said out loud and he was GONE. That dude was not just fast, he was cartoon fast

[@roywall8169]

Greatest athlete I have seen in my 52 years.

[@MilehighCLE216]

Same here!!

[@Biggdoom344]

I watched this game as a jr in high school. It was a wild one but Bo was on another level.

[@nigelkhan9278]

Bo Jackson, Herschel Walker and Marcus Dupree were absolutely fast as hell and as strong as they come. Wo Nellie!

[@JayDay32]

Crazy to get Bo, Barry and Emmitt all during the same generation.

[@glennlanham6309]

anybody else miss some Keith Jackson??

[@uscgbmcmretired2490]

Rare for a running back to have both the power to run over and lightning speed to outrun the fastest defensive players! Bo had both! Legitimate shot at the Best NFL Running Back ever even with the early career-ending injury!

[@napoearth]

True, he and Earl Cambell are the only ones that come to mind. Both had sadly short careers.

[@davideaster5956]

I remember those days being a Alabama fan .You had a feeling that he was going to break a long run for a touch down. Best athlete of all times and my favorite athlete. Even when he was playing for my favorite NFL team the Raiders. I remember when he trucked Brian Bosworth priceless.

[@paulsolon6229]

Bo against this Alabama had a pt to prove. Alabama recruited him out of high school. They said ‘you won’t play as a freshman. We don’t let freshmen play much less start.’ So he went instead to his second choice auburn who had told him ‘if you win the spot you play, and yes you can start if good enough’

[@rubbingisracing6951]

best rb in history

[@seanfrey7975]

Bo is the greatest athlete of all time. In my opinion

[@desiolle2874]

John Daly #2

[@thehonorablejiveturkeyspoo6370]

His stride was so majestic

[@desiolle2874]

Wasn't it? Got me to thinkin' though. He ran more like a WR than a RB. He was always past guys when they had any chance of tackling him in the open field so they were going for the hips and below. The same kind of tackle that ended his career. He always tried to power out too. Tremendous strain on the hips. Damn shame we only got him for a brief time.

[@928CS]

Dawg fan here... Bo knows football! 😁

[@cedthetruth1311]

Bo Jackson and Hershel Walker were two Studs!! Big guys that could run over ya or out run ya take your pick..😁

[@jerryakers6213]

I would not trade Jim brown for 10 bo Jackson's

[@DrAL00isin]

I also love the work of his team mates on every play, we just gotta spring Bo into some daylight.

Great footage

[@BAYAREA-kd1ig]

Don't like to brag about a lot of things, but man I do feel blessed that I got to see Bo Jackson play in the NFL and MLB in person. That run around the 4:32 mark is just insane how fast he is but it looks borderline effortless while the Bama secondary is going full tilt trying to catch him and isn't even close.

[@robotunes]

As a Bama student, I got to see him in three Iron Bowls, including this one. The Bama guys he's running past run the 40 in 4.5, which isn't slow. Bo was just on another level. Wish I could have seen him play the outfield. What were some great plays you saw him make?

[@tomburns41]

Thanks for the post.

[@coachk7674]

Bo knows!! the finest athlete in generations

[@willharper7888]

😂 "and once Bo Jackson with 9.5 speed gets outside it's see you later"- Keith Jackson woooo War Eagle Everybody 👏☝️

[@alexandersmith9385]

Still getting goosebumps watching Bo!

[@ceasetheday87]

Robinson, 21 for Alabama, definitely remembers this game.

[@gregoryphillips5518]

I’m a 53 year old sports fanatic, all sports…..IMO, Bo Jackson is the best athlete of my time.

[@DLJ1985]

I was at that game, an Alabama student at the time. Jackson was incredible, right after his last TD a strong storm rolled in, tornado alarms blaring, it was raining sideways ( I was sitting under the upper deck and still got drenched). Jackson/ 8 carries, 256 yards. His speed, just wow.

[@billycox475]

My girlfriend's mom talked us out of going to that game. We were Auburn students and had tickets but she kept nagging about possible tornadoes.

[@Capt_OscarMike]

Same...Never forget it...THE GOOD OLD DAYS...WOW I MISS THEM...Not just watching Football, listening to games on a transistor radio (sp?) and not having the over the top stupid announcers take away from the game...but life in general...I was a young Freshman at AU having just turned 18 about 1 week earlier...life was so much better back then...or was IMO

[@Kenny-d7u]

Bo Jackson what big beautiful running back if you didn't see him you missed it maybe the best to ever do it along with Hershel Walker.

[@mhayes22167]

Bo Jackson, and Keith Jackson, best combination, even better than the Jackson 5!😎

[@jjmadoublen7375]

Every game made him a superstar

[@sclawman]

Bo is the most unstoppable video game running back of all time. I rushed for 1,200 yards in one game with him playing Bill Walsh College Football '93 on Sega Genesis. He was also unstoppable in Tecmo Bowl (NES) playing for the Raiders.

[@melvinh007]

Walter Payton on Tecmo Bowl (NES) was Superman. lol

[@sclawman]

@melvinh007 He was a beast on that game no doubt. And Jerry Rice too.

[@binkyxz3]

Enough of this silliness !!

[@nathandodge665]

Video games are for kids

[@jimtruscott5670]

You rushed for 1200 yards in one game. Right.

[@norman9291]

Been watching football since the early 70s and I have never seen a running back with that kind of football speed. Im not sure theres a WR with that kind of top end speed like Bo had. Amazing

[@leebrunk4390]

Whew, I was relieved to see him in an Auburn uniform after reading the video title. I instantly thought of that MNF game in 1987…

[@YARDDAWG]

Damn & Bama still kept it in close. 23-20 unbelievable.

[@TheSeanMichael]

I attended this game. What people don't remember is the dangerous weather. A TORNADO WARNING was issued for Jefferson County during the second half of the game -- and fans (including me) stayed in their seats!

[@chipmidges3122]

Imagine having Herschel and Bo in the same back field - even today. My goodness. Miss watching both, miss the wishbone. Don’t miss losing to Auburn.:-)

[@ChrisMahan-z8m]

Bo Jackson single handedly beat us (AL) that day with 256 yards and 2 TDs. Then the tornado weather hit early 4th quarter. My dad and I was seated in the N end zone.

[@deeohen8344]

Bo. Deion. Darrell Green. Skeets Nehemiah. Ron Brown. Willie Gault. Rod Woodson. Joey Galloway. Tim Brown. Herschel Walker. James Jett. Alexander Wright. Young bucks don't want to hear this but for my money, the mid 80s to the mid 90s was the greatest era for top end speed in NFL history.

[@Ynkno]

Skeets?

[@scotteisel2816]

Michael Haynes was also a burner,Sam Graddy,Rocket Ismail....team speed

[@desiolle2874]

I vaguely remember reading that at one point the Raiders had 4 WR's that were either on or the equal to the speed of the 100m US Olympic track team. Willie Gault was one of them I think?

[@sloaiza81]

Bo had the Best TD celebrations.

[@desiolle2874]

Looked like there was an ode to Icky Woods in there.

[@henrymorgan3982]

There were and are many talented players out there, but there is only one Legend.

[@JJJ-mh8tg]

Bo Jackson does what most running backs don’t do today. He runs forward with speed and quick cuts. Not a lot of messing around with juking and wasting time trying to make plays happen.

[@ScottCole-sb8fy]

Could Bo Jackson be the greatest athlete of all time ? I think so. Incredible ability !!

[@chrisb3738]

I remember watching this game on TV and not believing how fast Bo was.

[@jamesmarshall7513]

Great video

[@LetitGolazziter-uk9xi]

Bo was a perfect RB!

[@stevebillieroberts9582]

Bo was the best all around athlete,in the last 100 years

[@joshualong7368]

Great Football Player! Great Athlete! I wish he would have played 20 more years as a professional baseball player and broke many records.

[@johncowhig7196]

I do remember Bo Jackson. He was hurt and couldn't play professional football anymore. He played I think for the Oakland raiders and I remember seeing him run next to the sideline and a defender tackled him. He got hurt pretty bad. Like I said, he couldn't play anymore. It was sad.

[@trappenweisseguy27]

The tackle severed an artery feeding blood to his hip. With the medical technology of the time this was not discovered until too late.

[@dougmiyamoto3109]

I had been a huge Tony Dorsett fan. When I first saw Bo, I saw the same running style as TD, but he was a bit faster (Tony was fast) and way bigger! It blew my mind.

[@bbkyjohnson]

Kind of makes you wonder how good Texas was to hold them to 3 points I think it was? He was so good. Most explosive player I think I’ve ever seen in college was OJ but Bo would have to be in the conversation.

[@garychavez8794]

Great athlete love bo

[@KeekNorwood-yx2nm]

Bo Jackson was the greatest I'm college

[@moreme40]

I hated Bo in 1983 as I’m a life long Tide fan. But I came to like him later. He was a one in a million athlete. Probably 230 lbs and could outrun defensive backs. I saw him play baseball against University Of South Alabama(which I later graduated from)when I was probably a senior in high school. He looked different(bigger)in his baseball uniform than the other players. He hit a line drive to the shortstop which would’ve been a routine throw out to first. He almost beat that throw to first. He quieted the opposing crowd down after watching his astonishing speed running to first.

[@johndrake3472]

Best burst and long speed, elite power and balance too.

[@KALICOE]

83' probably the greatest year of rb's in college

[@LetitGolazziter-uk9xi]

The way Bo switched the ball towards the opposite sideline is something back’s don’t do these days. It was a fundamental drill when I played PAL football back in the day.

[@lancel7998]

Those ginormous shoulder pads

[@EdmundoDiaz-p3n]

EL MEJOR CORREDOR UNIVERCITARIO DE LA HITORIA.SALUDOS DESDE MEXICO.

[@pickledcottoncandy]

As a lufelong Bama fan, im also a big Bo Jackson fan.

[@eugenehamby7167]

Bo Jackson was a great running back he was strong and he had unbelievable speed if you can run a 4.4 seconds or better in the 40 yard dash that's good speed Bo Jackson was running a 4.29 40 yard dash and I heard him say that someone had timed him before at 4.19 seconds in the 40 yard dash that is freaking shocking speed that's Olympics speed.

[@hmu958]

They quote him as having 9.5 speed. I believe it. Great stride and speed.

[@dg1019]

Legion Field, the wishbone and Alabama actually playing a good OOC schedule. Things that made college football what it is and things we will never see again.

[@truthfuljones4557]

I’m pretty sure I was at home watching the game in Birmingham. My family home is 10 minutes from Legion Field and I can hear the game from the front porch.

[@pocobull]

Once Jackson hit open field, forget about it, he was gone. On the second touchdown, the linebacker had the perfect angle, for about two tenths of a second, then Bo kicked into second gear, and the angle was gone. That guy was NFL ready in the womb.

[@allengrosssr.9621]

When you really think about it, he’s the best running back ever.

[@stevewright6290]

We sports fans were cheated so much when Bo went down with the hip injury , and when Len Bias died the day after the draft. My 2 fav athletes.

[@hoyt3536]

20 carries for 255 yds!😳 he is greatest athlete in my lifetime.

[@TheOlmonroe1]

If there wasn't any video evidence no one would believe how good Bo Jackson really was.

[@NoOne-ki3bm]

Every time I watch one of these older videos, I remember how lucky we are that they no longer use a potato to record games.

[@dg8994]

To set the record straight Alabama was NEVER the visiting team in Bham. I’m an old man born in the 50s and Bham has always been a Bama city no matter what anyone says. I lived there for over 40 years. Even if the tickets were split Bama fans would end up with at least 60% of the tickets. Auburn understood this and that’s why they fought so hard to get home games on campus. Even by the late 80s it was obvious Bham as a city was in decline and Legion field would never get the upgrades she needed to stay a gem in the south. By the 90s it was just unsafe to travel down there to see a game. Breaks my heart in the good ole days we would park at Birmingham Southern and tailgate then walk over to the game. Auburn used to play their home Tennessee games there as well. First game I ever saw was AU v Tn in Legion field.

[@Thonas-d1e]

Wow and Great blocking

[@AU88]

I was there. Probably 6 inches of rain fell in the 2nd half. Tornadoes all around the stadium.

[@Hyposonic]

In college and the pros, every single time I saw Bo get the ball, I thought he had a better than 50/50 shot at taking it to the house.

[@tweezerjam]

I’m the biggest Bo fan ever. Damn we were cheated. Love the dude. 👍🏼

[@Nickecho7979]

I watched Bo growing up and still collect his cards. What an absolute BEAST! You could take his # of of his jersey and STILL know who he was.