Bo Jackson, as thrilling a football player as he was before a hip injury changed his history in two sports, never made it to the Super Bowl when he was a running back with the Los Angeles Raiders. The one postseason game he played came in January 1990, the AFC Divisional Round against the Bengals in L.A. He was injured late in that 20-10 win over Cincinnati, then the Bills crushed the Raiders, 51-3, the following week in the AFC Championship Game, and that was as close as Bo ever came to Super Bowl Sunday. A year later, he was out of the National Football League for good.
Even though he won a Heisman Trophy at Auburn, and even though he once ran a 40-yard dash in 4.12 seconds for scouts while weighing nearly 230 pounds, he was more memorable for the eight seasons he played in baseball, not for the four he played in the NFL. It was in baseball that Jackson occasionally channeled a comic book superhero.
There was the All-Star Game in 1989, for which he was voted MVP. He made a great…
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