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Old Mon Dec 24, 2007, 06:49pm
Robert Goodman Robert Goodman is offline
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Originally Posted by Forksref
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.)
Not only do I not understand the biophysics of how a horse collar, as described by NFL & NAFL, hurt his hip, but I also don't get how if it did, it could be any worse than a clothesline, half Nelson, or any other hold directly on the neck.

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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?
Would you count Jim Conacher?

Robert
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