Another story of Bo Jackson’s insane athleticism has surfaced, and it might be one of the craziest we’ve ever heard.
Matt Monagan recently published an insane piece for MLB.com about how Bo Jackson at the age of 26 was apparently also a world class diver. During a Nike commercial being filmed on Auburn’s campus, where Jackson dominated baseball and football during college, the famous two-sport pro athlete needed to jump off a diving board. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football)
Naturally, many people didn’t think a man of his size could pull off anything impressive. Well, he sure proved them wrong.
According to the MLB piece, “Bo shot back out of the pool and flew up into the air, doing a 2 1/2 tuck. Two full front flips.”
For those of you unaware of how impressive that kind of dive is, you can watch someone doing it in the video below.
“My jaw must’ve hit the floor. And all the divers, all the kids that were there, clapping and saying. ‘Oh my god!’ They were all just as shocked and impressed as I was.The element of funny went right out the window. The awe went right up to the roof,” former Auburn dive coach Rick Theobald told Monagan about his reaction.
“My jaw must’ve hit the floor.”
This is the story of Bo Jackson popping into an Auburn dive practice in the late 1980s, asking if he could try it out and casually nailing a double front flip tuck off the 1 meter board – shocking the D-1 divers watching.https://t.co/rAAYDow1j9
— Matt Monagan (@MattMonagan) June 8, 2021
It’s actually insane how athletic Bo Jackson was in his prime. Hell, he’s probably more athletic now at the age of 58 than most young people are. In fact, I’d bet just about anything on that being true.
Lots of people are called freaks of nature without actually earning that title. Bo Jackson was a legit freak of nature in every sense of the word.
The fact he just showed up to a diving pool for a commercial and pulled off a a double front flip tuck is downright insane.
For anyone who wants to learn more about Bo Jackson’s unreal life and athleticism, watch ESPN’s “You Don’t Know Bo” documentary. It’s outstanding. Trust me, the diving story will make a lot more sense after that “30 for 30.”