Auburn baseball was going to make history in 1986—the first college baseball team ever (I mean, I’m assuming) to take the field with the best player in college football. And if that year’s media guide is any indication, the program was expecting to ride Bo’s lightning to something close to record attendance. Featured on the [...]
And that’s how awesome 1989 was.
How ubiquitous (are there degrees of ubiquity?) was Bo Jackson on the eve of the 1990s? His biceps were incorporated into not one but two (and we’re sure there are more) of the major-est motion pictures of the era. But unlike the opening scenes of Pretty Woman, the Lethal Weapon 2 cameras didn’t just pan [...]
David Painter has turned his 1,200 square ft. basement into a veritable Bo Jackson museum. His collection has been featured in various newspapers. It’s been featured in Sports Collectors’ Digest. When Auburn’s athletic museum needed pieces for a display to commemorate Bo’s induction into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1998, they called Painter.
The 3,000 signatures were all for naught.
Continuing in our heartily-researched, interview-heavy retrospective series on the campaign to bring the Heisman Trophy to Auburn for the second time, which so far includes an interview with Tony Barnhart, a look at the un-campaign of ’84, an interview with Randy Campbell about his country Bo ballad, a comparison of the Bo and Cam pre-Heisman [...]
“…because “like Bo, the Rogue is versatile.”
The last time Bo Jackson played football in an Auburn uniform—or at least in an Auburn helmet—wasn’t for the Tigers, but for the East team in the 1986 Japan Bowl. His 171 yards and three touchdowns, including the game winner, a 57-yard run in the 4th quarter, was enough to beat the West team (31-14), [...]
Nissan is a proud partner of the Heisman Trophy and we’ve been a fan of at least this version of their Heisman ad campaign since we saw it juxtaposed with a picture of an exciting new Auburn quarterback named Cam Newton (can’t wait for the Cam version) in a September 2010 issue of Sports Illustrated. [...]
The strong winds of late Thursday morning did the impossible — knocked down Bo Jackson. UPDATE: … and Cam Newton: We’ll never take him down, you hear us God?! First photo via, h/t, courtesy @benquackquack, rest via the one and only @brownbw. … Keep Reading: * VIDEO: First Auburn touchdown scored by black player came [...]
