Talk:Bo Jackson

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Semi-protected edit request on 18 February 2015
Change height its wrong

74.112.6.34 (talk) 13:28, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. – Muboshgu (talk) 13:31, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Now that I checked the page, I saw his height was listed as 500 feet. Yeah that was vandalism that wasn't caught prior. Thank you. I found the correct height from an earlier revision of the page and changed it. – Muboshgu (talk) 13:41, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

His injury
why is nothing in there about his football career ending injury and recovery back to baseball24.112.194.122 (talk) 02:31, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

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Suggestions for improvement
The article was well written and the sources were very reliable. ESPN and CBS Sports are very respectable sports news sources. There needs to be a few more footnotes added into sentences talking about facts. Try to take out any statements that could be opinions and try to find sourced facts instead. Make sure all of the sources are cited into the text. The overall structure of the article was fine. Adding in facts about his college baseball career into the college baseball section made it flow really well. Adding information about a broad topic makes it hard to make everything flow but this was done well. The grammar was fine, there were just a few punctuation issues. There was a run-on sentence in the first section. Also make sure to put comma's in the correct places throughout the entire document. There were just a few minor issues.

Scottalaimo (talk) 22:02, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Suggestions for improvement
Add sources in reference page so its a numbered in text citation. University of Auburn should be Auburn University. Remove opinion or find a source that backs it up. Caseygiles (talk) 22:05, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Information Box
Okay there needs to be something saying that he was drafted by Tampa Bay with that first overall pick in the information box, and then something else saying his draft position for the Raiders the following year. There is no mention of this in the info box, making it very confusing. I understand this hasn't been an issue with any other players page, but it needs to be done here somehow. Zdawg1029 (talk) 05:47, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

40 time/combine
Bo Jackson clarified, last year, that he never even went to the NFL combine. So his 4.13 time at the combine is an urban myth. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/bo-jackson-says-record-setting-40-time-never-happened/

What did happen, according to Bo, is a scout hand-timed him at 4.13 at his pro-day. But this is unverified.

165.225.81.65 (talk) 15:05, 8 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Bo Jackson is an amazing athlete, make no mistake, but his story about running a 4.13 40-yard dash simply doesn't add up. In college, he was also a sprinter in track and field, so the sprinting statistics exist.  His best 55 meter was a 6.18.  This was under ideal conditions on a prepped surface specifically tailored to track, NOT on a grass/astroturf.  Usain Bolt's best time over a 55m distance was 5.92, Bolt's best time over a 40y distance was 4.10, both of course on a track, best conditions.  In track, time starts electronically as the trigger is pulled on the starting gun, therefore the athlete's reaction time is also included in the overall time. In the NFL, in the 1980's, electronic timing was still started by a human, at the athlete's first movement, something very prone to human error, the electronic part only takes into account the point at which the athlete FINISHES the race.  And remember, Bo CLAIMS electronic timing, but there is oddly no existing record as such (before said article above that is).


 * Then we have his baseball scouting report. Again, amazing speed, running a 4.1 time over 90 feet (first base performance test), but there were plenty of 3.8/3.9 reports out there. 90 feet is 30 yards.  A 4.1 over 30 yards doesn't equate well to a 4.1 over 40 yards.  Now, this can be argued for a variety of reasons, Jackson having a bad day, timing being done even less thoroughly than the NFL, the time is equated to the point at which the athlete swings the bat then runs, Jackson did have a large fast swinging motion he would have had to overcome before beginning the run.  But even so, it does not support him running a 4.13 time over 40 yards.


 * Jackson was an astounding athlete, that once in a generation type, or even once in a lifetime, that makes you double take Sportscenter and your jaw drops, not trying to take away from that. But the 4.13 40-time for a big running back, in an event where WR and DB's own the best times, when that running back has other statistics that don't really support that time, just isn't all that believable.  He may have had that one astounding day, but it is more likely not true or attributed to some sort of human error by the timer.RTShadow (talk) 05:20, 10 April 2021 (UTC)