Sean Lamberger A very by-the-numbers summary of life in the spotlight for Bo Jackson. Though we get a few short sound bites from friends and teammates who knew him before he became a marketing slogan, the vast majority of this short film is spent breathlessly recounting his greatest hits in MLB and the NFL. There's plenty of material; Bo was truly one-of-a-kind and though his career flickered out early, for a short while it burned brighter than a supernova. I just kept waiting for something more than a long-form highlight reel, and evidently that wasn't the purpose of this exercise. An enjoyable trip down memory lane for anyone caught in Bo's thrall in the early '90s, it's not particularly intimate or revealing.

dgonset Director uses his-self as an "Expert" on Bo. Should have probably spent more time behind the camera. I love the 30 for 30 series and was excited to watch the Bo Jackson episode as the man was a movement in his day and to some extent his movement still carries on. With regards to this documentary, the expert opinions were overdone. It was a nice roster but it draws away from the reason we tuned in. To focus on the movement rather than the reason why the movement surrounding Bo Jackson was successful is to do Bo an injustice. Here was an athlete that was so gifted at such a high level that he excelled above other pros in not one but two different professional sports. The funny thing about this documentary is that much of the focus was on the phenomena that was Bo Jackson but we get little of WHY he was so great. Nike knew that all they had to do is focus on Bo's greatness and then show the shoe and sell the shoe by drawing similarities. The Nike employees even explain that in the documentary! The director decided to go heavy on expert opinions and ignore an already proved path! Give the people what they want! Keep your expert opinions to yourself! If I wanted to get someone's so called professional input on a football/baseball player id prob want it from someone who has something to do with sportsThat being said, based on the subject you can't say it isn't worth the 5 stars I gave. Def Wanted to give more, def expected more

mailhdot Bo Jackson's story deserves a feature-length film. This documentary is very well done, but it left me wanting to see more.I saw Bo do things that most people would think are impossible feats. There was the time when he outran a group of challengers who had as much as a 30-yard head start in a foot race from one end of Auburn's football field to the other. I also saw Bo at bat one day when some of rival University of Alabama fans were hurling ice and racial epithets at him from behind the backstop. Bo turned around, smiled and waved at the hecklers, and then hit a tremendous home run that sounded like a Howitzer going off. I also saw him with tears running down his cheeks after visiting his dying mother at UAB hospital in Birmingham. For all of his blessings, he is still as mortal as the rest of us are. He really is a fine human being in addition to being the greatest athlete to ever walk this planet.

Michael_Elliott 30 for 30: You Don't Know Bo (2012) **** (out of 4) Another excellent entry in the ESPN series, this one here taking a look at the quick career of Bo Jackson who managed to become a star in both MLB and the NFL. Teammates, former coaches and other commentators talk about the impact that Jackson had through high school, college and then eventually in the professional leagues. A very good comments is mentioned that Jackson has pretty much been overlooked because he never set any records, won any major awards in the pros and there are very few clips of him seen today. The speaker goes on to say that you really had to be living in that period to get the full impact of what Jackson did and I think this is true but this wonderful documentary really lets people know who wasn't there what this man accomplished and what he could have done had he not been injured so badly. The documentary really does a fantastic job at reminding people of what a talent Jackson was and the viewer really gets a great idea of what that period was like. The marketing side of Jackson is also discussed in great detail and what he did for Nike is just as impressive as his playing career. Some of the best moments come from Jackson himself who talks about his career and we get an incredibly sad sequence where he talks about his first hit for his mother who had recently passed away.