• Sports activities icon Bo Jackson has had a nasty case of the hiccups for nearly a yr. 
• Jackson advised “McElroy and Cubelic within the Morning” he had tried “every thing” to eliminate them.
• One of many extra distinctive strategies Jackson tried concerned smelling a porcupine’s butt.

The hiccups will be an annoying disturbance for even only a few minutes, finally subsiding with a glass of water or held breath. However for sports activities legend Bo Jackson, nothing’s labored to eliminate the hiccups which were bothering him for nearly a yr.

On an episode of “McElroy and Cubelic within the Morning” this week, the MLB and NFL icon revealed he is been coping with a nasty case of the hiccups since July 2022. 

“I’ve had the hiccups since final July,” he mentioned, “and I am getting a medical process completed on the finish of this week, I believe, to attempt to treatment it. I am busy on the hospital sitting up with the medical doctors poking me, shining lights down my throat, probing me each approach they’ll to seek out out why I’ve acquired these hiccups.”

Jackson mentioned the medical intervention was a final resort after attempting each remedy within the books.

“I’ve completed every thing — scare me, drink water the wrong way up, scent the ass of a porcupine,” he mentioned. “It does not work.”

Present hosts Greg McElroy and Cole Cubelic, together with visitor coach Hugh Freeze, laughed, noting they’d by no means heard of the latter technique. Sadly for Jackson, even the extra outlandish methods to eliminate hiccups did not work.

Jackson’s profitable baseball and soccer profession led him to be the one skilled athlete named an All-Star in each sports activities. He performed for the Los Angeles Raiders as a operating again from 1987 to 1990 and was on the Kansas Metropolis Royals from 1986 to 1990, the Chicago White Sox from 1991 to 1993, and the California Angels in 1994.