Alright, so I started digging into this Brian Jordan football thing. The name popped up somewhere, maybe I heard it on an old game replay or someone mentioned him. I had this vague idea he was an athlete, maybe football, but wasn’t totally sure.
So, first thing I did was just punch ‘Brian Jordan football’ into the search bar. Simple enough, right? And yeah, stuff came up about him playing safety. For the Atlanta Falcons, it looked like. Okay, cool. That confirmed the football part.
But then something felt kinda… incomplete. Like there was more to it. I had this nagging feeling the name was connected to baseball too. It’s weird how your brain holds onto bits of info like that. So, I switched gears. Searched ‘Brian Jordan baseball’.
And bam! There it was. Totally different set of results. Outfielder. St. Louis Cardinals. Atlanta Braves. Played for a long time too, like over a decade in the majors. Even made an All-Star team!
The Double Take
So, wait a minute. This wasn’t two different guys with the same name. It was the same guy. He actually played in the NFL and MLB. Seriously. Played safety for the Falcons for a few seasons, then focused just on baseball and had a pretty solid career there.
Why was I even looking this up again? Oh yeah, I remember now. I was cleaning out the garage last weekend, found an old box of baseball cards. Mostly junk wax era stuff, you know? But seeing those cards got me thinking about players from back then. And somehow Brian Jordan’s name just floated into my head. But I only pictured him in a baseball uniform, Cardinals I think. Then later I saw some NFL clip, maybe Falcons related, and I thought, “Hold on…”. The wires got crossed in my head.
It’s like that time I spent a whole week convinced my car keys were stolen, searched everywhere, blamed everyone. Found them in the pocket of the jeans I wore three days prior. Sometimes you just gotta follow through on these little memory blips, figure out what’s what.
So, the rundown is:
- Started looking into Brian Jordan, thought maybe football.
- Found out he played safety for the Atlanta Falcons (1989-1991).
- Then discovered he also had a whole separate career in Major League Baseball (1992-2006).
- Played outfield mostly for the Cardinals and Braves.
- Was actually an MLB All-Star in 1999.
Pretty wild stuff. You hear about Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders doing the two-sport thing all the time, but Brian Jordan flew under the radar a bit more, at least for me. He actually gave up football to stick with baseball. Crazy commitment either way. Anyway, just wanted to get that straight in my head and put it down here. Case closed for my brain fog on that one.
