Instead, Bo Jackson signed for less money with the then defending World Champion Kansas City Royals, who had picked Jackson in the fourth round of baseball’s June draft.
For those of you too young to remember, this was earth-shattering news. Bo Jackson was a college football legend. Few people believed that Bo would playing anything but football when Tampa Bay made him the no. 1 overall pick in the NFL Draft. Heck, most people were barely aware he even played baseball.
Rather than accept his coronation as one of the NFL’s elite running backs, Bo Jackson joined the AA Memphis Chicks in Kansas City’s farm system.