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Vincent Edward "Bo" Jackson (born November 30, 1962) is a former American baseball and football player. He was the first athlete to be named an All-Star in two major American sports, and also won the Heisman Trophy in 1985.
In football, he played running back for the Los Angeles Raiders of the National Football League. In baseball, he played left field and designated hitter for the Kansas City Royals, the Chicago White Sox, and the California Angels of the American League in Major League Baseball. While at Auburn University, he won the 1985 Heisman Trophy, the prize annually awarded to the most outstanding collegiate football player in the United States. He also ran a 40-yard dash in a blistering 4.12 seconds (hand-timed), which is still the fastest verifiable 40-yard dash time ever recorded at any NFL Combine. A hip injury severely impaired his professional baseball career, and ended his NFL career.
In 1989 and 1990, Jackson's name became known beyond just sports fans through the "Bo Knows" advertising campaign, a series of advertisements by Nike, that starred Jackson alongside Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician Bo Diddley, promoting a cross-training athletic shoe named for Jackson.
Actors: Rob Paulsen (actor), Michael Jordan (actor), Robert Morse (actor), Robert Ito (actor), Jack Angel (actor), William Callaway (actor), David L. Lander (actor), Pat Fraley (actor), Charles Adler (actor), Whit Hertford (actor), Brian Cummings (actor), Wayne Gretzky (actor), Jim Cummings (actor), Dorian Harewood (actor), Neil Ross (actor),
Plot: Real-life athletic superstars Bo Jackson, Michael Jordan, and Wayne Gretzky join forces as a superhero team. Usually accompanied by their female friend Denise, this Saturday morning cartoon was introduced by live-action clips of Jordan, Jackson, and Gretzky.
Keywords: athlete, basketball-player, michael-jordanActors: Ned Beatty (actor), Patty McCormack (actress), Michael Brandman (producer), Robert Greenwald (producer), Robert M. Sertner (producer), Frank von Zerneck (producer), George Schaefer (director), Burgess Meredith (actor), Robert Webber (actor), Eileen Brennan (actress), Sam Bottoms (actor), Ernest Thompson (writer), Kenneth White (actor), Susan Weber-Gold (miscellaneous crew), Danny White (editor),
Plot: Three of Ernest Thompson's short plays are presented, each involving a surprise visitor. In the first, "A Good Time," a vacationing California Highway Patrolman visits a young woman in New York who had told him if he ever came to New York, she'd show him a good time. In the second, "The Constituent," a United States Senator drops in on a constituent who has been sending him scathing and profane letters for decades. Lastly, in "Twinkle, Twinkle," a restless housewife who has been writing fan letters to a television soap opera star, receives a surprise visit by him on her husband's bowling night.
Genres: Drama,