Bo contest.
The #34 vs. the Real #34 “debate” takes an interesting twist thanks to 47-year-old and recently ordained MMA-fighter Herschel Walker’s attempt to “smash the barriers of the impossible” by comparing his dabbling college interest in taekwondo (red-line spell-checked as ‘Wonderbra’) to Bo Jackson’s professional two-sport dynamism.
Most athletes stay in the sport they’re in and they can’t give it up, but I always considered myself a well-rounded athlete. People used to talk about Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders doing two sports. I was doing that for years when I was competing in martial arts tournaments in college, and track & field, and all these different things.
Um, I’m good at wiffle ball, Galaga, and tonsil hockey, if that’s the way you want to play it, Herschel.
No offense, but by “two-sport athletes” – and let’s be for reals about this: it’s really only Bo – we mean athletes that excel (i.e. professionally) at two sports. So if you had been a champion cage-fighter or something during your USFL days, then, you know… maybe.
(By the way, Bo was also a track and field man at heart… and a two-time state champion in the decathlon.)
Cut Herschel some slack. You never know which one of his multiple personalities is talking.
I would have loved to see Herschel try to hit a major league curveball.
JB
lol USFL.
Bo not only excelled at track and field, he taught himself how to pole vault and throw the discus…. in a single afternoon. Well enough to win the state decathlon with enough points after nine events THAT HE DIDN’T HAVE TO COMPETE IN THE LAST EVENT (the mile run – his ‘worst’ event).
Sullivan013
I heard Herschel say on the Jim Rome show the other day that he could still run a 4.3 in the 40…I don’t want to say there is no way, but come on Herschel, surely that’s more like a 4.8 since you are forty-freakin-seven years old!
I was going to make up a story about Bo Jackson’s exploits that I heard in school, but I realize that I can’t make up a story more absurd than the realities of what the man could do.
(Perhaps the most impressive one was the standing backflip in water.)
Signed,
Graduate, Bo Jackson High, Class of Mumblemumble.
I think this should totally be the next Photo of the Day…;
http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac122/AubOrange/boknowsbeingbetterineveryway.jpg
“-and let’s be for reals about this: it’s really only Bo-”
Somewhere, Deion Sanders cries a golden tear.
Let’s be fair, it might not have been Herschel speaking. Could well have been his 9-year-old girl personality, Maybelline.
I’m pretty sure that when he said “I’m the best multi-sport athlete ever”, it was actually coming from his Bo Jackson personality.