<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Black+Ops+One" rel="stylesheet"> <div class="well container-fluid" style="background-color:white"> <h1>Bo Jackson</h1> <p style="text-align:center; font-weight: bold;" ><u><em>"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there." - Bo Jackson</em></u></p> </div> <div class="container-fluid" align="center"> <img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gskf0aSU_1A/TtJiqkWKzSI/AAAAAAAAZa8/gHkFIobB-Pw/s1600/bo_jackson_0006.jpg" alt="Bo Jackson" width="100%"> <hr> <p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; padding: 30px 0 30px font-size: 50px"><h2>Brief Overview of Bo Jackson's Athletic Career<hr></p></h2> <ul align="left"> <li><strong>Date of Birth:</strong> November 30, 1962</li> <li><strong>Place of Birth:</strong> Bessemer, Alabama, U.S.</li> <li><strong>College:</strong> Auburn </li> </ul><hr> <p align='left'> Vincent Edward "Bo" Jackson (born November 30, 1962) is an American former baseball and football player. He is one of the few athletes to be named an All-Star in two major sports, and the only one to do so in both baseball and football. He is widely considered one of the greatest athletes of all time. </br></br> While at Auburn University, Jackson won the 1985 Heisman Trophy, annually awarded to the outstanding collegiate football player in the United States. </br></br> In 1989 and 1990, Jackson's name became known beyond just sports fans through the "Bo Knows" advertising campaign, a series of advertisements by Nike, starring Jackson alongside Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician Bo Diddley, promoting a cross-training athletic shoe named for Jackson. </p><hr> <p align="left"><u>Baseball</u></br> Jackson was selected with the first overall pick of the 1986 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but he opted to play baseball for the Kansas City Royals, the defending World Series champions, who had drafted him in the fourth round in the 1986 amateur draft. He spent 53 games with the Memphis Chicks, the Royals' Class AA minor league affiliate, and was called up to the majors in September 1986. He made the Royals' roster in 1987 and hit 22 home runs, with 53 RBIs and 10 stolen bases as a left fielder. </br></br> In his eight baseball seasons, Jackson had a career batting average of .250, hit 141 home runs and had 415 RBIs, with a slugging average of .474. His best year was 1989, with his effort earning him All-Star status. In 1989, Bo ranked fourth in the American League in both home runs, with 32, and RBI, with 105.</p> <p align="left"><u>Football</u></br> Jackson was drafted first overall in the 1986 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Controversy abounded before then that resulted in Jackson never playing for the team. </br></br> In addition to giving Jackson an ultimatum to pick between sports, Buccaneers management took Jackson on owner Hugh Culverhouse's private jet to visit with the team during his senior baseball season. Jackson was told by the Buccaneers that the trip, which could have cost Jackson his remaining collegiate eligibility, had been cleared by the NCAA. Jackson was later told by his baseball coach at Auburn that the trip was considered to be a violation of NCAA rules and that he was immediately ruled ineligible to play the remainder of the baseball season. Jackson, upset that Culverhouse lied to him, insisted that he would never play for the Buccaneers and that they could draft him if he wanted to, but he would not sign if he was drafted. It was said that Jackson, who was having what he called his best year playing baseball in school, made the Buccaneers nervous and that by getting him somehow ruled ineligible to play baseball, he would be forced to focus on football. </br></br> Jackson held true to his threat not to sign, and the Buccaneers forfeited his rights before the 1987 draft. Jackson was in spring training with the Royals when someone informed him that he had a chance to play football again. Inquiring who it was, Jackson found out that he was taken in the seventh round of the draft with the 183rd pick by the Los Angeles Raiders. Initially Jackson had said he would continue to focus on baseball and would not sign, but his interest was piqued. Raiders owner Al Davis was a fan of Jackson and was receptive the idea of Jackson playing both baseball and football. Thus, a contract was negotiated where Jackson would be permitted to play the entire baseball season with the Royals and would report to the Raiders once the season was finished. In addition to this, Davis gave Jackson a salary that was in line with what a top-flight starter at halfback would make. </br></br> Jackson joined the Raiders in time for their Week 7 match-up against the New England Patriots, where he rushed for a total of 37 yards on eight carries. Jackson shared the backfield with Marcus Allen, himself an All-Pro and former Heisman Trophy winner, but eventually supplanted him as the featured running back despite being listed as the team's fullback. Perhaps his most notable performance in his rookie season came on Monday Night Football against the Seattle Seahawks in Week 11. Prior to the game Seahawks linebacker Brian Bosworth insulted Jackson and promised in a media event before the game to contain Jackson. Jackson responded by running over Bosworth on his way to a touchdown near the goal line. He also made a 91-yard run in the 2nd quarter, to the outside, untouched down the sideline. Jackson was running so fast that his momentum carried him into the tunnel leading to the locker rooms and his teammates had to retrieve him. Jackson rushed for 221 yards that night and two touchdowns. He added a third with a reception. The 221 yards was a single-game record for the Raiders until it was broken in 1997, when Napoleon Kaufman rushed for 227 yards in a win over Denver. </br></br> Jackson suffered a NFL career-ending hip injury from a seemingly routine tackle at the end of a 34-yard run in a playoff game on January 13, 1991, against the Bengals. </br></br> In his four seasons in the NFL, Jackson rushed for 2,782 yards and 16 touchdowns with an average yards per carry of 5.4. He also caught 40 passes for 352 yards and two touchdowns. Jackson's 221 yards on November 30, 1987, just 29 days after his first NFL carry, is still a Monday Night Football record. </p> <hr> <p alignt="left">For more about the awesome career and life of Bo Jackson visit <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Jackson" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></p> </div> <p align="center"></br></br>Coded by <a href="https://www.freecodecamp.com/eliment" target="_blank">Rod for the FreeCodeCamp Tribute Page Challenge</a> </body>

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