re: Bo Jackson and the 4.12 time 40-yard dash

No one can even confirm the details of the run: was the track even 40 yards? Stuff like this matters, as illegitimate tracks (distance, slope, etc) are absolutely a real thing.

Common sense would tell you that a 4.12 time is absurd. That would have made Bo roughly on par with Usain Bolt, when in reality he wasn't even the best college sprinter of his time. There are guys from that era who ran faster track times than Bo and yet tested nowhere near 4.12. Even if you want to argue that he had some special "40 yard dash" skill that allowed him to run absurdly faster in that measurement, the idea that no one else has come even near that time in the 30+ years since with superior training and coaching is ridiculous. The football players of today literally train with track specialists who perfect technique specific to the 40-yard dash. That didn't exist back when Bo ran the 40; thus the idea that with less training he is somehow still 0.1+ seconds faster than 30+ years of athletes is absurd. The thing with track times is that the lower you go, the more extreme the difference in time actually is. Thus the relative difference between say 4.20 and 4.30 is significantly greater than the difference between 4.50 and 4.60, even though its a 0.10 difference in both cases. Bo's supposed 4.12 compared to John Ross' 4.22 is actually an ABSURD difference.

I have no idea why Auburn fans defend this crap as if their lives depend on it. Bo Jackson is rightfully recognized for his athletic achievement, you really don't have to pretend that he was "literally Superman" to confirm his legacy.