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Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Remembering the Bo Jackson debacle

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be on the clock at pick number five Thursday night. Whether they decide to select a player at that pick or trade back, one thing is for sure:

They cannot mess up this selection as they did in 1986.

The Bucs held the number one overall pick and decided to select Bo Jackson. That sounds great; he is one of the best athletes in the world. Only one problem: he told the team not to draft him. He refused to play for Tampa Bay because after a visit to team facilities they said was NCAA-approved was in reality not, causing him to miss the remainder of his final college baseball season.