Bo Jackson would not have played football

[Kevin Hamilton]

if he'd known about CTE etc. Says he'd smack his kids in the mouth if they wanted to play

www.complex.com/sports/2017/01/bo-jackson-smack-kids-mouth-if-they-said-wanted-play-football

If Bo could go back, though, he says he would have done things differently. According to an interview he did with USA TODAY Sports recently, he would have skipped playing professional football and just focused on baseball. Now that he knows all of the damage he could have done to his head and brain by playing football, he’s adamant about the fact that he wouldn’t have laced up his cleats and spent four years playing running back for the Raiders."If I knew back then what I know now, I would have never played football," he said. "Never. I wish I had known about all of those head injuries, but no one knew that. And the people that did know that, they wouldn’t tell anybody."

Bo also went on to explain that, if his kids were younger today and told him that they wanted to play football, he would steer them in a different direction.

"The game has gotten so violent, so rough," he said. "We’re so much more educated on this CTE [chronic traumatic encephalopathy] stuff, there’s no way I would ever allow my kids to play football today. Even though I love the sport, I’d smack them in the mouth if they said they wanted to play football. I’d tell them, 'Play baseball, basketball, soccer, golf, just anything but football.'"

[sfvega]

That doesn't really surprise me. Bo is an independent thinker and not one of those chest-thumping idiots. He honestly could have really gone into any number of sports if he so chose. He'd probably go baseball, but the man had so much athletic ability, he could have found a good athletic living without getting his head beaten in. There's plenty of guys who are stepping away younger and we're still in a very early stage in awareness and treatment of it. More and more athletes are going to turn away from football despite the sport's efforts to protect against concussions. There's only so much you can do with a full contact sport with guys this strong and fast. CTE is going to continue to be a major problem for retired guys going forward.

[Push R Truth]

He's not wrong but I'm laughing over the whole:

Game is too violent! If my kids disagree I'll hit them!

[Toilet Paper Roll]

Well it may have served him well not to. He probably could have tagged on a few more years as a top slugger in baseball.

[Lupin the Third]

But then who would we go to as our go to guy in Tecmo Bowl?

[StuntGranny®]

Jan 15, 2017 8:32:02 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

He's not wrong but I'm laughing over the whole:

Game is too violent! If my kids disagree I'll hit them!

To be fair, Bo's from the South (Alabama, to be exact). People hitting their kids down here is as common as the sun rising. Most Southerner's only form of exercise is hitting their kids.

[Kevin Hamilton]

Jan 24, 2017 15:38:00 GMT -5 Lupin the Third said:

But then who would we go to as our go to guy in Tecmo Bowl?

Christian Okoye. He was badass on there too.

[Lupin the Third]

Jan 25, 2017 12:25:52 GMT -5 Kevin Hamilton said:

Jan 24, 2017 15:38:00 GMT -5 Lupin the Third said:

But then who would we go to as our go to guy in Tecmo Bowl?

Christian Okoye. He was badass on there too.

That was Temco SUPER Bowl, though.