![]() That's what brought you guys back together after so long. There just aren't enough hours in the day or days in the week for me to do all that I want to do to help people like that. Just to see the people and the devastation up close like that, you don't ever forget that. That's where her son and grandson found her after the storm - in the field. The tornado picked up the grandmother's house and took it a quarter-mile, and she fell out of the house when it was in the air. On that first ride, I stopped at one neighborhood, and there were four generations of a family sitting there on all that was left of their home: a concrete slab. That could have been people that I know and love." Go anywhere in this state, and talk to anybody, and they'll know somebody who lost their house or their kids or their business to the tornado. It was just so emotional because everywhere I rode, I thought, "That could have been my family. But I wore shades, and I rode up front, so nobody could see me. Jackson started the event a year after a deadly outbreak of tornadoes wreaked havoc on Alabama in 2011.ĮSPN: In 2012, when Bo Bikes Bama started, that must have been hard seeing that kind of devastation up close for five straight days.īo: Every day on that first ride, I shed tears somewhere along the route. Jackson, meanwhile, went on to become one of the greatest all-around athletes - and marketing phenoms - of his generation, before his career also was cut short by injuries.ĭespite sharing that iconic sports moment, for the past 27 years, Bo and Boz had never actually spoken until May 1, when ESPN caught up with them in a tiny hotel conference room on the eve of the fourth annual Bo Bikes Bama charity bike ride, an event that in its first three years raised nearly $1 million and helped build 57 storm shelters throughout Bo's home state. Plagued by bad shoulders and other issues, Bosworth was a shell of the dominant player he had been at Oklahoma, and his NFL career lasted just 17 more games. That night was the birth of Bo and the end of the Boz. In the second half, Jackson took a handoff near the goal line, moved to his left, cut toward the end zone and bulldozed Bosworth for his third score of the night on his way to a Monday Night Football-record 221 rushing yards. In the second quarter, Bo blew past Boz in the open field for a spectacular 91-yard touchdown. To some extent, it was good versus evil, talent versus talk, offense versus defense, the greatest athlete of all time versus the game's greatest villain.Īfter two storied carries, though, the great rivalry was over. 30, 1987, when the troubled and insolent Bosworth promised to shut down the explosive, electrifying Jackson, the game had spun into an epic showdown between two of the most popular rookies in NFL history. As soon as a smiling Bosworth can extricate himself from behind a cramped conference table, Bo and the Boz embrace for the very first time since their infamous collision on the goal line in Seattle during an iconic Monday Night Football game some 27 years ago. David Williams: ' Buffalo Bill is a different direction for Michael, he has a more vocal sound and includes his brothers singing more than in the past.' Bill Bottrell: ' We were playing with 'Buffalo Bill', I had a strong influence from John Barnes, and a very cool chorus:' Who shot Buffalo Bill? They said shot a lot, did I ever get killed?'.These are the words that burst out of Brian Bosworth's mouth the moment Bo Jackson appears in a doorway of a small office inside The Hotel at Auburn University. Bruce Swedien: ' He has a great symphonic introduction and a Lovely melody'. MJ said he composed it after Billie Jean. John Barnes: ' It's great but we did not finish it completely, I love it and I'd like to help finish it, it's a discarded Victory and it was considered for inclusion in Bad, It was one of the first complete song I did for and with Michael'. ![]() Inspired by poker player Wild Bill Hickok or bison hunter William Cody.Ĭonfirmed by Frank Dileo in 1984 and by MJ on several occasions. ![]() Jackson's first studio collaboration with John Barnes, recorded in 1983 during sessions for the Victory album. Buffalo Bill is a unreleased song by Michael Jackson with John Barnes, it was intended for the fifteenth studio album Victory by The Jacksons, and also intended for his seventh album Bad, but in none made the cut.
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