Type: Base Card
Acquired: Pulled From Pack
This card literally & figuratively hurts to post. Pro Set created a card for their "NFL Newsreel" subset that highlights Bo Jackson's football career ending injury that occured during a playoff game against the Bengals on January 13th, 1991. It's a crazy thing to think that an injury would make it into a major card series, but I guess that shows how big of an icon Bo was. As we all know, Bo was able to recover from this devastating hip injury, but he was never able to play in the NFL again. What really surprised me was how quick the Kansas City Royals were to release him just 2 months after the injury on March 18th, 1991! Luckily for us the Chicago White Sox took a gamble and signed him as a free agent on April 3rd, 1991. What a roller coaster of a year! Eventually it paid off as Bo still had a few good MLB seasons left in the tank and even helped them win the American League West in 1993.
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