All-time great running back Jim Brown dies at 87
All-time great running back Jim Brown dies at 87.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/37685864/all-great-running-back-jim-brown-dies-87
How many Dallas Cowboys does it take to tackle Jim Brown.....
Apparently more than are on the field!
He had a long acting career. One role just came to mind:
Awesome movie and great role! RIP Jim!
How much for one rib?
Always kills me when Rocks says "I sure am hungry"
The GOAT...for lacrosse
also football.
RIP.
maybe the greatest football player of all time for all positions
After Barry Sanders.
Not according to Barry’s Dad.
Which was all kind of weird.
I think Jerry Rice just might be the best
when we played at san diego at jack murphy stadium, he came in before the game and gave us a pep talk. great athlete, ahead of his time.
Holiday Bowl against BYU 1984?
That game was in 1994. IIRC, it was the same day the lions lost a playoff game to the packers. We won a thriller, the kind of game where I was walking off the field with our left tackle looking around at the crowd exclaiming “wasn’t that the coolest thing? “.
And man, the after game party was wild. I refrained but oh my gracious
We played in the Holiday Bowl in both 1984 (BYU) and 1994 (CSU).
i was unclear. i meant the game that i played in at the murph when jim brown came into our dressing room was in 1994.
I was at the 1984 game. I was in the Navy serving aboard the USS DURHAM LKA-114 in San Diego and scored tickets. That was a very rough year for Blue. 1985 was MUCH better.
RIP. Life extremely well-lived.
It would have been even better lived without the multiple domestic violence, assault, and rape incidents (and this was in the 1960s and 1970s, mind you, let alone his late 90s conviction).
Yep. George Best levels.
I’m torn on Kobe. If you read the police interview/report on The Smoking Gun, it is so close. I don’t think he would have been convicted even if the accuser testified. I think he did something incredibly stupid, but not something criminal.
multiply kobe’s stuff by ten and you get to the public stuff with jim brown. he was a really, really bad dude, for literally his entire life.
I grew up listening to my dad tell me how great Jim Brown was here in metro Detroit. So big, so strong, and so fast. A foreshadowing of today’s backs.
Before Barry, Gale, Earl,Eric, Marcus and Tony…there was number 32, Jimmy Brown.
Rest in Peace, Legend.
You and me both. Regardless of what sport an athlete played, or what era they were playing in, one thing was certain - my dad was going to compare them unfavorably to Jim Brown.
Your dad and Barry's dad:
Are you Barry? :)
That speech was horrific. Even if he believed that he should have shut his mouth about it, and said something good about his son.
Found Fred Jackson's son...
Played 9 seasons. Won 8 rushing titles. Different era, and then some, but WOW! That mark will stand probably forever.
Meh. The man was notorious for beating the crap out of women.
I was ready to make a snarky comment to you about being hyperbolic until I went and read up on this.
That is.... not good.
Unfortunately, it's true, and most people never heard of his dark side.
Two sides to Jim Brown - his personal side which was ugly but - without a doubt - the greatest RB of all-time. He was the gold standard for all other RBs
I think his DV history is 100% fair to bring up whenever discussing his on-the-field exploits. His football production was Michael-Jordan-level, but in today's NFL, he likely would have been either suspended or expelled altogether. I like it better today.
BRV - You are assuming his behavior would have been the same if he played in modern time?!?! That isn’t fair. Just like drinking and driving wasn’t a big deal in the 70’s and 80’s, DV wasn’t nearly as taboo in the decades prior. Times change - mostly for the better!
In today's NFL, 9 seasons as an RB alone put you in rarefied air.
Hell of a football career, but that will never top his greatest feat of fighting off a horde of Martians.
https://youtu.be/AuwIR-WAvF0
I always think of Mars Attacks and Any Given Sunday
It's hard to cheer for a guy who built a second career for himself battering, choking, and (allegedly) raping women. Dude threw his 22-year old girlfriend from a second floor balcony, which he told police she "fell from."
Yeah. Great football player.
Absolute POS human being and I'm glad he's gone.
Never knew about his off field violence.
Sounds like OJ - lite
Yet 50 years later Deshaun Watson is the face of the Browns franchise. Go figure.
Imagine if they had cell phones in his era.
It's a sad day for me. When you're a kid and the NFL on TV every weekend is a novel entertainment that you can share with your dad, the images of Jim Brown just hammering defenses leaves a mark on you. He was, to me, the greatest player to ever play the game (with the possible exception of Tom Brady). Highest yards per game average and (maybe it's been broken) yards per carry. After getting tackled, he'd get up and labor his way back to the huddle like he was all beat up, but when the ball was snapped, he was a monster.
He was, quite possibly, greatest College Lacrosse player in the history at Syracuse, too.
None of this justifies his treatment of women, though. Another reason to feel sad today.
Well said Grampy.
I can remember him getting back to the huddle just after they broke. He would have to ask the fullback what the play was. More often than not, it was another Jim Brown run.