💬 my nomination for dumbest tweet of the year

[18Champs]

 

[TUSKtimes]

"Bo knows" was the biggest star in sports. He was Michael Jordan before Michael Jordan. And we know what happened when Jordan tried baseball.

 

[XXL TideFan]

He was only s 230 lb man that put up the fastest time ever at the NFL combine. No big deal.

 

[JoshB]

"Bo knows" was the biggest star in sports. He was Michael Jordan before Michael Jordan. And we know what happened when Jordan tried baseball.

lol what? Jordan had already been in the NBA for like 4 years by the time Bo even went pro. They were megastars at relatively the same time, hell they even stared in a freaking cartoon together (with Gretsky) for a season.

In fact, the "Be Like Mike" and "Bo Knows" Nike campaigns happened at the exact same time (1988-1990) and is what really made both transcend sports.

And the Jordan "sucked at baseball" thing is 100% a myth. All of the actual baseball scouts were shocked at his improvement from his first season to a summer league (just a cpl of months) where he played against the top prospects in baseball and did extremely well. Dude hadn't played baseball since high school yet in one season he was being looked at as being brought up to the majors.

 

[TUSKtimes]

lol what? Jordan had already been in the NBA for like 4 years by the time Bo even went pro. They were megastars at relatively the same time, hell they even stared in a freaking cartoon together (with Gretsky) for a season.

In fact, the "Be Like Mike" and "Bo Knows" Nike campaigns happened at the exact same time (1988-1990) and is what really made both transcend sports.

And the Jordan "sucked at baseball" thing is 100% a myth. All of the actual baseball scouts were shocked at his improvement from his first season to a summer league (just a cpl of months) where he played against the top prospects in baseball and did extremely well. Dude hadn't played baseball since high school yet in one season he was being looked at as being brought up to the majors.

Jordan was drafted in 84 and Tampa Bay drafted Bo in 86, If it meant enough to you to bring it up, why not do the research? In any case that wasn't my point when I said he was far more famous than Jordan early in their careers. People love to look at the sum of the career and project out that that was the way it was from day one. You obviously are one of those over-reactionaries. Jordan came into the league as a volume shooter and was promptly dismissed from the playoffs year after year, first by Boston and then Detroit. He and Pippen were considered soft and if you roughed them up and leaned on them they would emotionally disappear, and that's how it mostly went. At the same time, Bo Jackson came into baseball out of auburn as a Heisman winner, scorned the number one pick in the NFL by the Tampa Bay team and joined the Kansas City Royals. Internationally and domestically, Bo was a big deal far sooner than Jordan.

Glad you brought up Jordan and baseball because while Bo was also considered an All-Star in talent and let that seep in, my brother-in-law and I made it to see a couple of Jordan games as a B'ham Baron. I've seen tall guys hit, I saw Strawberry at 6'6'' wack the ball a mile and I'm telling you on my worst day at the plate I could get around on a fastball better than Jordan would ever accomplish. He looked like an albatross with that stick in his hand. For all the natural genetics Jordan had for basketball he did not have the genetics to play major league baseball and Bo was great not just hitting but defense and one of the best-throwing arms in the league. He could throw BBs. That was Bo the player and that is what all the commotion was about from the media.

In short, Bo was being acclaimed for what he was long before the media believed in Jordan's place in basketball folklore. He was the greatest two-star athlete in the history of sports and had he not gotten injured this conversation wouldn't be going on.

 

[JoshB]

Jordan was drafted in 84 and Tampa Bay drafted Bo in 86, If it meant enough to you to bring it up, why not do the research? In any case that wasn't my point when I said he was far more famous than Jordan early in their careers. People love to look at the sum of the career and project out that that was the way it was from day one. You obviously are one of those over-reactionaries. Jordan came into the league as a volume shooter and was promptly dismissed from the playoffs year after year, first by Boston and then Detroit. He and Pippen were considered soft and if you roughed them up and leaned on them they would emotionally disappear, and that's how it mostly went. At the same time, Bo Jackson came into baseball out of auburn as a Heisman winner, scorned the number one pick in the NFL by the Tampa Bay team and joined the Kansas City Royals. Internationally and domestically, Bo was a big deal far sooner than Jordan.

Glad you brought up Jordan and baseball because while Bo was also considered an All-Star in talent and let that seep in, my brother-in-law and I made it to see a couple of Jordan games as a B'ham Baron. I've seen tall guys hit, I saw Strawberry at 6'6'' wack the ball a mile and I'm telling you on my worst day at the plate I could get around on a fastball better than Jordan would ever accomplish. He looked like an albatross with that stick in his hand. For all the natural genetics Jordan had for basketball he did not have the genetics to play major league baseball and Bo was great not just hitting but defense and one of the best-throwing arms in the league. He could throw BBs. That was Bo the player and that is what all the commotion was about from the media.

In short, Bo was being acclaimed for what he was long before the media believed in Jordan's place in basketball folklore. He was the greatest two-star athlete in the history of sports and had he not gotten injured this conversation wouldn't be going on.

So two seasons instead of four? LMAO Okay, I was going off of memory but whatever. And it only "meant" something because I'm a huge Jordan fan boy, no reason to get your panties in a bunch over it...Didn't think I needed to do "research" for a post on a message board.

But my point was Jordan became a huge star as much for the Nike campaign as for his talent, same with Bo. If you can't get that, don't know what to tell you.

And you can make your opinions about Jordan and baseball all you want, the people that actually count on the matter felt differently... And I never once suggested that Jordan was even in Bo's universe as far as baseball, hell not even Deion's. The point was he didnt suck.

 

[TUSKtimes]

So two seasons instead of four? LMAO Okay, I was going off of memory but whatever. And it only "meant" something because I'm a huge Jordan fan boy, no reason to get your panties in a bunch over it...Didn't think I needed to do "research" for a post on a message board.

But my point was Jordan became a huge star as much for the Nike campaign as for his talent, same with Bo. If you can't get that, don't know what to tell you.

And you can make your opinions about Jordan and baseball all you want, the people that actually count on the matter felt differently... And I never once suggested that Jordan was even in Bo's universe as far as baseball, hell not even Deion's. The point was he didnt suck.

I said he was Michael Jordan before Michael Jordan. You did the rest.

 

[JoshB]

I said he was Michael Jordan before Michael Jordan. You did the rest.

And I said he wasn't *shrug*