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After documenting Bo Jackson’s cross-state bike ride last month to raise money for tornado relief, ESPN has put together a moving segment that brings back the emotion of April 27, 2011.
Jackson, the 1985 Heisman Trophy winner at Auburn and an all-star in both professional football and baseball, biked 300 miles over five days across Alabama. He enlisted celebrity athletes such as Ken Griffey Jr., Scottie Pippen, Picabo Street and Lance Armstrong to join him.
In the ESPN piece, which first aired Sunday on Outside the Lines, Jackson talks about the emotion upon the completion of the trip in Tuscaloosa.
“I got emotional for about a mile and a half,” Jackson said. “no one could see it because I was leading the pack. But I was talking to myself. Keep it together, keep it together. You can’t let them see you cry.”
The segment also focused on Bryce Ferguson, an 11-year-old boy in Henagar who lost his parents and sister in the April 27 tornadoes.
Jackson set a goal of raising $1 million and so far $435,228 has been donated to the Governor’s Emergency Relief Fund, according to the Bo Bikes Bama website.
