BJ’s Big Heart showed up big time!
BJ Green hosted a FREE Toy Story 5 screening for Jacksonville kids with disabilities, chronic & terminal illnesses, and their families.
“For me this just feels like inviting a couple of friends to go see a movie.” ❤️🚀
Omygoooooooodnesss!!!!! WHY have i never seen this before?!? What an awesome idea!!!
Can you imagine as a prerequisite all seniors choose a kindergartners to mentor and teach....... teaching the seniors patience and pride, and the kindergartners have someone to look up to ( not in their family)
And when the seniors graduate, the kindergartners will graduate with them (into first grade)
That would be an AWESOME program!
It started with a private jet and a lie.
In early 1986, Bo Jackson was a senior at Auburn University — the reigning Heisman Trophy winner and a rare athlete dominating both football and baseball. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, holding the first overall pick in the 1986 NFL Draft, wanted him badly. Owner Hugh Culverhouse arranged a private jet to bring him to Tampa.
He told Jackson the trip had been cleared by the NCAA.
It hadn’t.
When Jackson returned, he was ruled ineligible for the rest of his senior baseball season. A season taken from him.
He believed it wasn’t a mistake.
He told Culverhouse: draft me if you want—you’ll waste the pick.
They drafted him anyway. First overall. Offered him $7.6 million.
He said no.
Instead, he signed with the Kansas City Royals for $1.07 million and went to the minor leagues. Bus rides. Empty seats. No guarantees.
From the outside, it looked irrational.
From the inside, it was principle.
On November 30, 1987 — his 25th birthday — Jackson lined up for the Los Angeles Raiders on Monday Night Football against the Seattle Seahawks. Linebacker Brian Bosworth had promised to stop him.
He didn’t.
Jackson took a handoff, broke outside, and ran 91 yards for a touchdown — past defenders, past the sideline, straight into the tunnel.
Later, he ran straight through Bosworth at the goal line.
221 rushing yards.
His fifth NFL game.
Then baseball came.
In 1989, he was named MVP of the MLB All Star Game — chasing down impossible plays and hitting a home run off Rick Reuschel that traveled nearly 450 feet.
Two sports. Two leagues. One athlete.
But the most remarkable thing about Bo Jackson wasn’t the speed or the power.
It was the refusal.
He refused to reward dishonesty.
He refused to let money erase what had been done to him.
He chose a bus ride over millions because some things matter more than numbers.
His career ended too soon — a devastating hip injury in 1991 changed everything.
But his legacy didn’t.
Bo Jackson remains the only athlete ever named an All-Star in both Major League Baseball and the National Football League.
And that legacy began with a decision.
A 22-year-old sitting on the ground in Auburn, his baseball season gone, choosing not to bend.
He didn’t break.
The world adjusted around him.
@BigFish3000 Nice try. I took the Amtrak home.
We tried to pay TSA almost a dozen times and Republicans said no every time. Then the GOP Speaker closed session last night and sent everyone home.
Please Google what party is in charge of Congress right now. The answer may surprise you!
I don’t follow hockey, but this had me tearing up. They brought their teammate’s (who was killed by a drunk driver) kids out onto the ice with their dad’s jersey to celebrate the moment. 🥹
White People Don’t Own Progress, They Borrow It…
Trump barks ‘we invented everything’, wrong again. History laughs. If you’re set on being racist, commit: bin the traffic lights, fridge, lift, AC, phone, GPS. Black brilliance built the world you cling to.
Racism can’t survive its own plug socket!