BO ∩ DEION: The collision of multi-sport stars produced 4 home runs and one dislocated shoulder
Bo Jackson vs. Deion Sanders should have been a year-round, years-long rivalry. Amid a small field of two-sport athletes, Jackson was the most prominent to stake out a successful forked pro career, playing with the Kansas City Royals into early Fall, then joining the Los Angeles Raiders as soon as baseball season ended. Sanders followed Jackson, but changed things up and experimented, first favoring NFL over MLB when the seasons coincided, then attempting to hop back and forth in-season.
This could have gone on for years. If things lined up right, we could have watched Bo and Deion share a baseball diamond several times per summer, then occupy opposite sides of the ball in the occasional NFL game. It would have been a fun rivalry, too, because these two stars had such different public personas, and quite a bit to say about one another.
As it happened, Jackson's famous, devastating hip injury in 1991 ended the rivalry. Jackson couldn't play football anymore after surgery, and his AL-only baseball career never again crossed paths with Deion's. Sanders, meanwhile, got to live out the extremes and dreams that made Jackson's initial pursuit so exciting: the World Series, Super Bowls, the Football Hall of Fame, and so forth.
But! For one brief stretch of Summer 1990, Bo was a Royal and Deion a New York Yankee. They played a few games of baseball against one another. And one of those games, in July, was full of drama. Bo and Deion combined to give us multiple home run blasts, a home run earned on foot, and a visit to the hospital. It's a shame we didn't get to see more of these two, together and opposed, but for one night, Bo and Deion gave us a show, like a condensed version of the rivalry that could have been. This is the story of that overlap -- the buildup, the excitement, and the aftermath.
Written and produced by Seth Rosenthal
Edited by Ryan Simmons
Motion graphics by Michael Das
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both great athletes....but bo was in a league of his own.
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Something we’ll never see again
In my opinion, Bo was a great baseball player and really good football player. Deion was the opposite.
It was as obvious before the hip injury as it is now. Bo should have never played football.
Bo was the GOAT hands down. Bo was too powerful for his own skeletal structure. DAMN!!! That's power man.
I cant watch the Bo injury knowing how violent and disturbing that injury was (Even though it doesn’t look bad but understanding what happened is just disturbing)
How weird Yankees try to draft Bo Jackson but goes to Auburn instead but then plays for KC Royals Deion drafted by KC Royals but plays at Florida State but then plays for Yankees...
Imagine if he didn't get hurt? Also as I recall personally (I'm middle-aged) Bo was better at baseball & football. Also Sanders although a phenomenal football player (who was allergic to tackling & the physicality of football) was not a great baseball player. 5th outfielder/pinch runner
Man Bo Jackson was amazing.
Prime gets the edge everytime. Bo is all "what if's".... Deion actually lived the dream. Bo would kill for deions career
They were fast so fast!
Moral of the story: Bo is a better athlete, & more importantly, a better human being.
I feel the Greg references at the end were strange shots at Danny Gonzalez
Brian Jordan came close. Was in the Cards minor league system when he was a safety for the Falcons. Cardinals gave him a $1.7 mill signing bonus to give up football and he did.
Funny how Deion had a more successful football career and even appeared in a World Series.
Great story telling.
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Those 2 were amazing. It was so cool seeing them both play back in the day. Both are great. #greatness
Bo knows exactly what he's doing. One of the greatest athletes of all time. Neon Deon also is an athletic freak.
had Bo Jackson never gotten hurt and had full careers in both sports, deion sanders would have been known as, "remember when sanders tried playing baseball?" sanders couldnt hold Jackson's jockstrap in either sport. a defensive player afraid of contact ergo could not tackle.
With modern medical technology could Bo have continued his football career?
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My 2 favorite athletes
Gotta mention Danny Ainge who starred at BYU. And played with Toronto Blue Jay's and went on to Boston Celtics fame.
Great video man! Amazing! Brought a tear to my eye. Nice job. I didnt know how that history unfolded. I just remembered the two great players.
15:05 this caught me off guard in such a great way HAHAHA
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I followed this firsthand. Deion Sanders was a marginal 2 sporter. Bo Jackson scared the shnit out of his opponents....in both sports.
How da fk could 88 people not like thiz video😱😱😱
Both had dope cross trainers
i'm so glad i was alive to watch both of these careers. incredible. we will never see another two way professional athlete again with the amount of money being thrown around and the primadonna attitudes. watching those two duke it out on the diamond was truly a special moment. watching them trying to rob each other. seriously. incredible. one of those times that feels like you lived a movie.
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There was a third player doing the same thing. He played for the braves and the falcons. Outfield in baseball, RB in football.
Best two athletes ever period never see it again
I think Bo Jackson is the greatest athlete ever
Bo Jackson is by far the most overrated player ever.
Bo Jackson's injury was one of the most heart crushing moments of my early childhood. Even at 8 years old, watching him lie on the ground in pain, I knew that I had just lost the chance to continue to watch something special. However, after the injury when he came back to play baseball, I'll never forget watching him swing at a pitch that was so close to hitting his hands and promptly muscle it out over the centerfield fence. He was a once in a lifetime athlete who continued to defy to all logic. It was an honor to watch him play.
The quality of these videos is other-worldly.
Bo was better because he never quit on his team
Could you imagine Kyler Murray or Patrick Mahomes doing this this would have been awesome Deion and Bo Jackson playing two sports that was awesome and it One day we can see you at again
deion wasn't the best ball player & played on the yanks for 10 mins till he went to the NL...R!
Fantastic video guys
Bo really needs to be inducted. He was an explosion for both sports. Were all n.p.c.s compared to these guys.
Deion pulling off both would have been epic, but something similar happens with two major autosports crown jewel events. The Indy 500 and Coke 600. Both race in the same day and are drastically different forms of racing. Several drivers have managed to race both in the same day, but none quite like Tony Stewart.
That perm though 🤣🤣😂👌
I feel for Bo. I always wonder what he would have done had he not been ìnjured. However I think he was bound to get hurt the way he ran much like Earl Campbell, playing 2 sports has take a toll. I ďont know how Sanders did it
I wish other multi sport athletes had capitalized on their respective talents such as Dave Winfield, Aaron Judge, and of course, Jackie Robinson
Don’t even attempt to compare the two! Bo Jackson was miles better on the baseball field, and oh by the way, won the Heisman. Also, pretty sure Bo never had any run ins with the law. Sanders was a piece of garbage off the field.
Bo is the GOAT athlete, imo. Would’ve been the Greatest RB of all time. Maybe the HOF in baseball too.
Prime Time was better than Bo.
Bo Jackson Rejected the Yankees and later on played for the Royals, Deion Sanders rejected the Royals and later on played for the Yankees. 👀
Love Bo!!! Greatest athlete of my lifetime. All that back and forth chatter and the way they both acted, Bo acted like a man, Deion like a child. I think, in 2020, Deion has grown into a man and has my respect. But in college and pros, he wasn't respectable to me.
If I was Deion Sanders I would have choose Baseball. I don't like football at all.
The thing I learned from this is that two different baseball teams (Royals and Yankees) could have had both players on there roster at the same time, if either accepts offers they got coming out of HS. Never knew that
The shelf life of an NFL running back is much shorter than an NFL DB. Bo was never going to equal Sanders in longevity.
Brian Jordan was also a damn good 2-sport star.
Long story short, Deon couldn't hold No Jacksons jock strap
Bo, god damn spell check
A damn shame Jackson got hurt we was robbed of much much greatness
16:48 I was thinking, "holy crap, how the heck does he know my name???"
Bo knows its primetime.
I didn't know Eazy-E played baseball.
What is that symbol between Bo & Deion?
Was this Overlap or Beef? Beeflap.
Everybody Respects Bo Jackson
There is one difference between bow and Deion, Do could break a baseball bat over his knee like it was a twig and hit a baseball outside the park like something from the Superman movie over the score board. This suppose it thing about not lifting weights is absolutely true whether you wanna believe it or not, you need to speak to people who were there at the time but Jackson is like a hero from the Greek myth the man pushed his thighbone into his hips because of the power of his muscles that is why I needed a hip replacement!
Do you guys really think Bo ran a 4.13?
Until I have seen it proven otherwise, Bo Jackson will always be the most talented athlete I have ever seen. Successful? Debatable, but certainly most talented in my book.
That was horrible about Bo. I still remember that. If Bo didn't get injured? Allen and Bo will have more championships rings.
Imagine Bo playing for the Raiders years later when they had a baseball diamond on the field. He could have played both sports simultaneously.
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So Deion didn’t get a ring for that Braves WS? Damn
No athletes are born like this now days, Bo knows!!
Being from Ft.Myers Fl love me some primetime and madd respect for Bo Jackson....I modeled my style from both of them with a little of Cal Ripken and a Ken Griffey batting stance....
Consider bo and his supporter attitude in comment, he deserve his injury
Did he say thanks for watching Greg??
"And he f***ing raped" is the most anti 2020 comment but I love it
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The media always pitting black excellence against one another. Bo vs Deion. MJ v Prince. Jay v ye. MJ v Bron.
Deion Sanders was a great athlete, but he was NO Bo Jackson.
To US as fans of sports, Bo Jackson is the ultimate “what-if”, but Bo knows what he could’ve done, atleast in football. He was good at baseball but great with the pigskin.......
Sanders shouldn’t even be named in this discussion
Brian Jordan played both too💯
I was in KC during Bo's stint with the Royals. He was known to be one the kindest people around. I saw him pull over his Ferrari to help someone change a tire.
tracy mcgrady was a 2 sport athlete too
I like how this narrator tries to paint the Royals during this time as a losing organization. Bo is drafted the year after the Royals win the WS. In Bo's final 4 yrs with KC only had 1 losing season. If they used the modern division and playoff system, Bo would have been playing post season baseball. These were the George Brett Royals not Royals of the 00's.
Can @Secret Base be any better? I think not
The fact that someone existed that played MLB and NFL simultaneously blows my mind. Thinking about how good Bo and Deion were at both makes me question reality.
I remember all that SO WELL! I was always a hardcore Braves fan as a kid & hardcore Raiders fan from the time I started watching sports in early Mid 80's! I was a much bigger BO fan than Sanders, but I did love watching him when he played for the Braves more SO than his football years... He was a really great athlete at both too, I just favored Bo! I'd even try catch Royal games just to see him play, wasn't a fan at all of them, I wished it'd been Bo Atlanta picked up, but Sanders did help the Braves just as they was starting to actually WIN FINALLY, unlike the Dale Murphy days of Braves Bball! 😆 I was watching the game that Bo went down in, against Bengals I think, then the Raiders got blowed out by Buffalo without him in playoffs by like 50points! I had his posters, and all his cards... I think I still got his Baseball & Football rookie cards mint condition boxed up! Wonder if they're worth anything much lol??? Bo would've been 1 of the all time greats of both probably had he had full careers! Just 😥 sad bad luck 🚫🍀
@Secret Base ... Thank you for this video!
Wow this was awesome, Seth
Brady Manning’s overlap is gonna be 45 minutes lmao.
What about Brian Jordan???
Bo is also just a force of nature when it comes to comedy
It's actually Craig, but it's cool.
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I still don’t understand how the video footage of it is so poor, idk how the game was being filmed that poorly (albeit 90’s) but his throw in the Kingdome against my Mainers, where he threw it from the warning track in Left field all the way to home plate to throw our ( I think) Harold Reynolds on maybe one hop If it hopped at all is IMO the greatest throw in baseball history. I’ll m biased, but Ichiro throwing that guy on the A’s out trying to go first to third on a base it is close second. Bias or not that Ichiro throw was other worldly.. 😂
Prime is the GOAT!!!!!!
Man imagine if Bo never got hurt KC was actually a good team and the raiders made the super bowl
This show should be on prime time.