- Sports icon Bo Jackson has had a bad case of the hiccups for almost a year.
- Jackson told "McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning" he had tried "everything" to get rid of them.
The hiccups can be an annoying disturbance for even just a few minutes, eventually subsiding with a glass of water or held breath. But for sports legend Bo Jackson, nothing's worked to get rid of the hiccups that have been bothering him for almost a year.
On an episode of "McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning" this week, the MLB and NFL icon revealed he's been dealing with a bad case of the hiccups since July 2022.
"I've had the hiccups since last July," he said, "and I'm getting a medical procedure done at the end of this week, I think, to try to remedy it. I'm busy at the hospital sitting up with the doctors poking me, shining lights down my throat, probing me every way they can to find out why I've got these hiccups."
Jackson said the medical intervention was a last resort after trying every cure in the books.
"I have done everything — scare me, drink water upside down, smell the ass of a porcupine," he said. "It doesn't work."
Show hosts Greg McElroy and Cole Cubelic, along with guest coach Hugh Freeze, laughed, noting they'd never heard of the latter method. Unfortunately for Jackson, even the more outlandish ways to get rid of hiccups didn't work.
Jackson's successful baseball and football career led him to be the only professional athlete named an All-Star in both sports. He played for the Los Angeles Raiders as a running back from 1987 to 1990 and was on the Kansas City Royals from 1986 to 1990, the Chicago White Sox from 1991 to 1993, and the California Angels in 1994.