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

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Bo said himself that he ran a 4.13 electronic time then. Stop watches were even faster. You don't want to believe it, that's fine, but acting like it is completely absurd for anyone to believe it is a silly position to take.

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Have you heard Bo speak? He's not exactly impervious to pushing the mystique towards his supposed feats. Most of his legend in fact stems from a series of unproven fables; like that he could kill wild boars by throwing rocks at them. I don't doubt that someone didn't actually get that reading and then tell him it, which is why he repeats it as fact. He was told the time, and so he believes it. That doesn't mean that the time itself isn't inaccurate, which it quite obviously is unless you want top delude yourself into believing that he is in fact potentially the fastest human being ever (or at least in that discussion).