Fortunately, I seem to have a little more faith in you than you have in me. "I was very sorry to see you make the statements that you did," Brown wrote, "because it was not a victory for you or I but for the newspaper men.
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Team owner Art Modell decided to get tough with his star, and said Brown would be fined for days he missed.Ī few days before his announcement, on the movie set, he sent Modell a letter. When production was delayed, it meant Brown would be late to Cleveland for training camp.
Brown also was an aspiring movie actor, and that summer he was in England shooting the World War II film, "The Dirty Dozen." The previous year he'd won his third Associated Press, NFL MVP award. Brown was 30, still in his playing prime. But he particularly loved the way Brown left the game, for good. Long before he wrote about Jim Brown, Rhoden loved watching him play as a young NFL fan. "This is it, he's had it, and he'd slowly get up and then on the next play, would totally vanquish the defense." " a little bit of playing possum," said William Rhoden, a long-time sports columnist for the New York Times. So defenders never knew, was he hurt, or not? Those things included Brown's mental approach to the game.Īfter being tackled, Brown always got up slowly. But who cares about that when you could run and do the things that he could do?" "The only thing I could say about Jim Brown," the late Hall of Fame defensive end Gino Marchetti said, "is that he might not have been the best blocker in the world. One hole in his resume was that he didn't like to block. Other significant Jim Brown career numbers: 5.2 – average yards per carry 8 – how many times he led the league in rushing during his 9 years and 0 – the number of games he missed. He's the only one to do that in NFL history. Brown averaged more than a hundred yards for each regular season game of his career. Rushing for 100 yards in a game still is a gold standard for running backs. 2, 1966, file photo, Cleveland Browns' Jim Brown (32) turns the corner as a Green Bay Packer defender swings with him during a football game in Green Bay, Wisc. He zipped around them and away from them, evidenced by the long touchdown runs that fill his highlight reel.ĪP In this Jan. With his chiseled six-foot-two-inch, 230-pound body, Brown sneered at the idea of running out of bounds on a play.īut his rare combination of power and speed and quickness meant he didn't only run through tacklers. There are defensive men in the league who have dedicated themselves, their souls and their bodies, to a holy war against Jimmy Brown. It pushes you to the brink and you can either deal with it or you can't."įootball fans agree, Jim Brown "dealt with it" perhaps better than any running back in the game's history. "In every way," Brown said, "stamina-wise, mentally, courage. He told the NFL Network in 2000 he loved how football was a constant test. Track and field, basketball, lacrosse and of course football. But it was a testament to Brown's superb athleticism – he competed in four sports at Syracuse University. It seemed incongruous, compared to his defining and violent sport of football.
His abilities landed him in the Hall of Fame, the first Black player inducted. A blend of speed, quickness, intelligence. Jim Brown called it the most beautiful game he ever played. But football merely was the start of a life filled with accomplishment.and controversy. In his nine seasons playing for the Cleveland Browns, Brown established himself as one of the sport's all-time greats. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell called Brown a gifted athlete athlete and "one of the most dominant players to ever step on any athletic field." In a statement, he also singled out his involvement in the civil rights movement who became a forerunner and role model for athletes to become involved in social initiatives outside their sport. To our family, he was a loving and wonderful husband, father, and grandfather. "To the world he was an an activist, actor, and football star. His wife, Monique Brown, announced on Instagram that he "passed peacefully last night at our LA home." Jim Brown, a blazingly fast running back and a star of the Cleveland Browns in the 1950s and 60s, has died.
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