Statistics are great and all, but you know for sure you’re an impact player when opponents make shirts celebrating not their victory over your team but their victory over you. In 1985, Bo Jackson was an impact player.
Behold the Tennessee’s “Bo Busters” shirt.
It wasn’t the only “We Beat Bo” shirt produced that year. Bama had their own version, which played on the date of the 1985 Iron Bowl being on Bo’s birthday, or Bo-Mas.
Related: The Great Bo Jackson A-Day Race of 1984.
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From Wikipedia: Tony Robinson played college football at the University of Tennessee in 1985 as a quarterback for the Tennessee Volunteers, and was a Heisman Trophy candidate until blowing out his right knee. He was arrested in Knoxville on cocaine charges, and sentenced to 90 days on a penal farm plus 6 years probation.
I will take the loss and the subsequent legacy of Bo everyday.
I’ll take a national ABC telecast of the Vols whipping the then #1 ranked Tigers and TRob on Sports Illustrated the following Monday any day.
Good thing you have those memories Allen since, these days, the Vols couldn’t beat a Knoxville Pop Warner team.