Children of the greats

[Midswat]

Watching the 30 for 30 on Bo Jackson and just wondering... Did he ever have any kids that became anything in sports?


I know a lot of greats (Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, Michael Jordan, Michael Irvin, etc) had kids and some even became decent collegiate athletes. But most of those guys were great because of sheer tenacity and out working everyone else. Not so much superior genetics

But Bo Jackson was just a physical freak. Just wondering if his kids inhereted his beastness.

Also.... Randy Moss and Barry Sanders were both physically gifted freaks and I remember hearing about both of them having sons killing it in high school, but it's been years. Whatever happened to them?

 

[junk]

Barry's kid is a sophomore at Stanford

 

[Irving Cowboy]

Jerry Rice's kid was just cut by the Redskins, I believe.

 

[bbgun]

Very rarely is the kid as good or better than the superstar father. Ken Griffey and Barry Bonds are the exceptions. Or sometimes they excel in a different sport (Ken Norton Jr).

 

[dbair1967]

I'm sure he dominated the court just like Magic did

 

[peplaw06]

Children of the elite players probably have too much pressure to be great. It seems like children of solid/average professional players are all over the place though, and turn out to be superstars.

Steph Curry, Grant Hill, Manning brothers, Prince Fielder, Chris Long, Kobe Bryant... All the damn Matthews boys in the NFL.

 

[Doomsday]

Bill Bates has two sons and a daughter in college... They're triplets.

 

[Doomsday]

Manning brothers

Archie was a heck of a good quarterback though, just on a truly terrible team. He was one tough sumbitch too.

 

[junk]

Bill Bates has two sons and a daughter in college... They're triplets.

I bet they'll be bursting with pride when he has his RoH ceremony

 

[Doomsday]

I bet they'll be bursting with pride when he has his RoH ceremony

I know I will be.

 

[Rynie]

Me too. Because he's white.