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Bo Jackson, the Birmingham Stallion?

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Pat Dye always called him a thoroughbred. Had things gone differently, we might have called him a Stallion.

Yes, lost in the tug of war between baseball and football, between the NFL and the MLB, was that Bo Jackson was in the spring of 1986 being courted by a third professional sports league. It wasn’t just rumors of phone calls or whatever. He met with team officials. There was a press conference. There he is in a photo with Stallions’ president Jerry Sklar (who may have killed Richard Kimble’s wife), yet despite how weird it would have been, everyone at least looks serious.