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Originally Posted by Ed Hickland
Wasn't it a horse collar tackle that ended the career of Bo Jackson?
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Bo's football career was ended and he received an artificial hip and continued to play baseball, but that career was ended a season and a half later (He sat out a year and played a year and then retired in the middle of a season.)
Bo was considered by some to be the best multi-sport athlete since Jim Thorpe. I know that Vic Janowicz, Heisman winner from Ohio State (Elyria, Ohio) played in the NFL and for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Some others I can remember off the top of my head were Neon Deon, Dave DeBusschere (White Sox-Knicks), Gene Conley (Celtics-Red Sox?). Jordan tried baseball but didn't make it to the bigs.
Any others at the major league level?