Jeff Pearlman on the Incredible Bo Jackson Stories in His 'Last Folk Hero' Book | Rich Eisen Show

[@robertjones7419]

I could listen to Bo Jackson stories all day long…

[@lacoleccionperfecto]

I once saw BO Jackson in the Oakland Coliseum parking lot sign memorabilia for a crowd of 200 kids after a night game - holding up the team bus. The entire parking lot was chanting Bo’s name for two hours. He signed my card first, and I still have it.

[@donaldblanks118]

My wife and I were living in Montgomery, Alabama and we were having dinner at a neighbor’s house. Their son-in-law was an Auburn grad and attended Auburn when Bo was there. I asked him if he thought Bo was getting paid to play at Auburn. He said…”well if he was he wasn’t spending any of it”. I then said…”why do you say that”. He then said…”well I was working part-time as a cashier at Winn-Dixie and I checked him out one night and he had 5lbs of chittlins and a case Check Cola”!

[@bailey123198]

I lived in Kansas City when Bo played for the Royals. In person, at the game, I've never seen a person run to first base as fast as Bo...effortlessly....to this day. How far and quick the ball would travel when he'd hit home runs is another discussion of superior power. He was amazing!!

[@dcinsc7]

Bought and read this book and it is fascinating. When I finished reading the book, I donated it to the local high school library so hopefully some young people will read about the great “Bo”!

[@davidmorrison4291]

I got to see BO play football and baseball when he was at McAdory . He was something else. He scored three td against Brookwood ,He only got the ball three times and he was not touched. He pitch a one hitter and the guy that hit it said was lucky to get the single

[@elijahmendez1476]

Bo Jackson is the greatest athlete ever!

[@Joshallenbigballs]

Deon Sanders ???

[@RabidDingo]

@@Joshallenbigballs Go look up Deion talking about coming up against Bo in college.

[@stevenkloepping2953]

@@Joshallenbigballs No its BO

[@artimusbill]

@@Joshallenbigballs Probably not, but how about Wilt?

[@seanwhitehouse2274]

He's for sure in the discussion, top 5 for sure. The things he did were jaw dropping and superhuman. Even other professional athletes, including hall of famers were in awe of him

[@GreyBeard_Fit]

Bo Jackson’s accomplishments in his 3rd sport, Track & Field. Alabama High School State Track Championships ***1st place in every event listed*** *Outdoor Track:* 1980 - 120 yard hurdles 1981 - Decathlon (10 events) - Long Jump - Triple Jump (set state record) - 120 yard hurdles - 330 yard hurdles 1982 - Decathlon (10 events) - Long Jump - 100 yard dash (set state record) - 120 yard hurdles *Indoor Track:* 1980 - Long Jump 1982 - Long Jump - High Jump - 60 yard dash - 60 yard high hurdles (set state record)

[@Bob-ub4gl]

Bo seems to have been a pure "thoroughbred," and BELIEVE ME, PLEASE--I mean that in the MOST respectful WAY!!! Phenomenal seems a bit too *light" of a description of the man, doesn't it? 😆😆😆

[@imurhuckleberry7777]

There's no other player i wished finished his career healthy. Love Bo

[@jamesweldon8118]

I got to meet Bo this year such a humble guy

[@TheMaddBlackMann]

Bo Jackson was great. But have you heard about the running back from Polk HS named Al Bundy? The man who scored 4 touchdowns in one game including the game winner against Spare Tire Dixon? Greatest sports performance of the 20th Century. Bo was great but Al Bundy was next level

[@bubbazanetti1625]

That's nothing. My uncle Rico can throw a football a quarter-mile. If they had only put him in during the fourth quarter, you could have seen it.

[@marksheppard6498]

@@bubbazanetti1625 I heard he could throw a football,clean over them mountains.

[@mattskeahan4736]

@@marksheppard6498 I bet he could

[@mattskeahan4736]

He's married now--has a couple of kids

[@thomascarew7223]

Bo Jackson Total Stud 🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@IGI_Media]

The two greatest folk legends that people love to tell stories of (some fiction and some real) Chuck Norris and Bo Jackson.

[@michaelb3927]

Yeah but 95% of the Chuck Norris references are prostiously false 😆 Bo legitimately Did some genuinely unbelievable things!

[@wizzerwiser2056]

@@michaelb3927 You mean Chuck Norris never built the hospital he was born in. 😁

[@66fredo99]

His 1st MLB hit vs Carlton was a routine grounder to 2b that he beat out for a single.

[@TheThugNasty]

Wtf 😂

[@andrewmoore8635]

Can’t wait to read this.

[@MrTUBEular10]

What do you mean where did they get cups? They're baseball players! They have their own!

[@beaubellamy2999]

I’m so happy Bo Jackson happened when he did even if I’m too young to have seen it. The mythology makes him special.

[@v4v819]

Explain yourself woman!

[@johnlewis8934]

I wish I could have seen him honestly, but I do enjoy the mystery as well

[@surfwriter8461]

Bo is a legend for the legends. Those who are themselves legends revere him as someone in a higher sphere of legend.

[@chriszozaski]

It's a great book.

[@mz6504]

Dude rocked in tecmo…..just sayin…..

[@mikebrase5161]

He was a cheat code in Tecmo before cheat codes were a thing

[@Goremachine]

Cheat codes were a thing already, but I get your point

[@fratersol]

The only person to make the pro bowl for football and all stars for baseball

[@99bimmer]

He was so good, he made the Pro Bowl for MLB and All-Star team for NFL

[@ineedbbq]

Growing up Bo was and still is to this day my favorite athlete. By the way him and Henderson could take out a ton pheasants l hometown.

[@jimlasswell4491]

I initially wondered if Bo had died when I keyed this up. In fact I've never heard of a living person spoken of like this before. It is analogous to stories about Beowulf, Arthur, Robin or El Cid. Like others I wonder what would have happened if he'd stuck with baseball, rather than also playing football and getting injured.

[@markhammond7452]

Gotta love it !

[@MrManMuff]

Bo once hit a bowling ball with an ostrich leg that traveled 650 feet , he was lounging in a hammock at the time.

[@surfwriter8461]

Ah, that's nothing. I was in Manhattan when Bo scaled the Empire State Building wearing nothing but gym shorts, then he leaped from the top of the ESB to the next closest skyscraper and slid down it all the way to the street, landed on his feet as soft as a cat, and ordered five hot dogs with extra relish from a street vender.

[@peachbottomblues9944]

@@surfwriter8461That’s such bullshit…. …it was 4 hot dogs.🌭

[@surfwriter8461]

@@peachbottomblues9944 Well, I just added a little mustard to the tale. The main details are still totally accurate.

[@coolkid5924]

BO IS BY FAR THE GREATEST ATHLETE EVER!!!!

[@deniselee8005]

It is an amazing book and I'm not even a baseball fan! I couldn't put it down.

[@dylantodd9574]

He’s probably mad because you’re profiting off of his life and his stories. Maybe he’s thinking that if anyone should get paid off of his life in print it should actually be him.

[@JohnLee-ue6gy]

Loved he was a Royal, thus wish he wasn't a Raider. TBF, that's the closest I've been to being a fan of A Raider [singular. . . . plural is an existential impossibility].

[@bobwhite2]

Bo played in 598 games and batted 250. He started 23 games in the NFL. 🤫

[@tdaveniii]

What were the batting numbers with his real hip?

[@larryjr3611]

Bo needs to be in both H.O.F. like gayle sayers. Short lived career but , great.

[@JB-ty8mv]

I am tell you young people Bo Jackson was unreal and super human without the drugs. Go watch film

[@v4v819]

No drugs in the 80's as an athlete... You must believe in angels in the outfield!

[@conscious258]

There's super 🌟 , star's and then there's BO 😮

[@tonyjones8425]

No man who has ever walked this earth was more dynamic!

[@Jetman41]

People under 40 can’t fathom that in the late 1980’s Bo Jackson was the most popular athlete in America and that includes Michael Jordan

[@theunknown4570]

Injectable my friends had no Bo Jackson rules so I couldn't run with him. Because whenever I did I can literally run up and down the field left and right all the way back and forth maybe five six times without being tackled. That's how legendary Bo was

[@mrchopsticks3]

The only person I would say might have been a better athlete was Jim Brown. I knew a guy who went to high school with Jim Brown and he said that when a doctor was giving them physicals in gym class, he said Jim Brown was the most perfect human specimen he had ever seen.

[@j.c.bishop6589]

Bo Jackson is the Chuck Norris of team sports

[@Dan-cj9yg]

I wonder how many of those Royals players are mad they ripped up a signed Heisman picture of Bo.

[@patrickmoylan5983]

Pearlman career took a hit when he got caught lying about Laker dynasty in 80s on HBO.

[@okay5045]

Perhaps Bo wanted to tell his own story.

[@Dan-cj9yg]

Bo Jackson is basically if Chuck Norris facts were real.

[@Boss3Nate]

Imagine Bo Jackson swinging an aluminum bat in college........ oh Good Lord

[@frankgifford207]

He would have killed a pitcher with a shot back to the mound

[@Boss3Nate]

@@frankgifford207 no doubt. I miss listening to you call NFL games

[@jackbatts1074]

Oh man,,,if Bo didn't get hurt,,hall of fame in two sports,,incredibly

[@manchesterexplorer8519]

Possibly , but ultimately I think he would of ended up playing Baseball fulltime by the time he was 30 .

[@dbadal1]

Hmmm, I wonder if Mr. Jackson has ever received a dime from this book?

[@C47vin]

Eh unauthorized autobiography tho

[@AU88]

So?

[@the_real_ch3]

There is not a story about a feat of athleticism by Bo too outlandish for me to believe

[@talljib]

😂😂😂 boo"d the man for a double hahaha

[@mlecarre2057]

People who can’t ….making money off those who can.

[@WinstonWilliamsofficial]

This needs to be a movie starring Johnathan Majors

[@Fred-xo3ku]

He should have gave up 🏈. Could have made the MLB ⚾ Hall Of Fame.

[@morganroberts8368]

Who the hell is Jeff Pearlman?

[@66fredo99]

Longtime sportswriter

[@morganroberts8368]

@@66fredo99he’s a thief.

[@somchai272]

Bo proved trans athletes can not only compete but florish.

[@Goremachine]

Wut

[@chingonbass]

Jim Thorpe is the best athlete ever, Bo is a solid 2nd.

[@frankgifford207]

Babe Didrikson Zaharias