Better Athlete: Deion Sanders or Bo Jackson?

[Standing on business]

what do accomplishments have to do with athleticism? lol.

Has to matter somewhat, there’s a lot of freakishly athletic players who have average careers. Vernon Davis comes to mind.

 

[Playeroni]

It’s clearly Bo. Didn’t he pretty much injure/end his career because of the power he was running with?

 

[zayk35]

Gotta go with Deion he helped my Cowboys win their last Super Bowl and actually got to finish his career(s). Bo was a bad man but he gets an incomplete wasn't his fault but that's life. "What ifs" don't matter and as I type this I'm wearing the Bo Jackson SC trainers from 1990

 

[papa pimp]

Has to matter somewhat, there’s a lot of freakishly athletic players who have average careers. Vernon Davis comes to mind.

thats kind of my point

in every sport, i can name freak athletes who can't compare to lesser athletes who did more

thread aint ask who had the better career or who is more accomplished

 

[Standing on business]

The one who got his nickname from a sport he didn’t even professionally play

 

[CoryMack]

Has to matter somewhat, there’s a lot of freakishly athletic players who have average careers. Vernon Davis comes to mind.

but bo didn't have an average career. he was a top tier player in two professional sports, his career was cut short by injuries and injuries aren't something you can control for the most part.

 

[vino]

Bo was a different type of athlete.

Prime my guy but I gotta go with Bo

 

[EffedUp]

Bo definitely.

I think of the story of him competing in the decathlon in high school. He hated running the 1500 so he beasted at all the other events so he could win state without even doing that race. Insane.

 

[RedBull]

Ask Prime.

 

[GOATpernick]

Need me a comp of every frozen rope from Bo

 

[En Sabah Nur]

Bo was running through men and belting home runs without ever lifting weights. And he put Prime's face into the turf with one hand... Probably would have been a beast wrestler as well

 

[010101]

DEION*

 

[Spaceman Piff]

Bo was the better pure athlete. Bigger than Deion and faster. I believe even Deion said Bo was better cause he could hit the curveball.

They were talking about this on the radio yesterday and dude said Bo was a pro bowler in football and an all star in baseball.

thought you were saying he was a legend in three sports

 

[beenz]

bo jackson, cuz he was elite at both sports. deion was below average in baseball.

on top of that, bo could run just as fast, if not faster than deion, while being the size of a LB.

 

[Ziggiy]

Both of them are world class but i’ll go with Deion because Deion was able to stay healthy and maximize his athleticism to the highest zenith.

Deion also could play Basketball