RIP Jim Brown

[Deskgrunt50]

 

[Songbird]

"The pro game in the pop age had a number of superstars, but only one superman, and he was Jim Brown."

 

[Deskgrunt50]

My pop was a huge Browns fan. We had long running argument when I was a kid about who was the best running back of all time. He had Brown of course. Walter Payton for me.

 

[wicked]

Not just a Hall of Fame player, a cultural icon.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Best football player of all time. Payton, Rice and Lawrence Taylor are his peer group up at the very top of the mountain. PS: Not that quarterbacks aren't football players, but they're in a different game than the ones who deal and get dealt pain on every play.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

RIP to the guy who was the GOAT before such things were talk radio fodder.

 

[mateen]

An extremely complicated figure. Stood for and did a lot of important things that took a lot of courage, but the history of abusing women was just awful.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Greatest running back in Baltimore Ravens franchise history.

 

[CD Boogie]

“Don’t sweet talk me, whitey.”

 

[I Should Coco]

One of the greatest NFL players. And a pretty solid actor, too.

His final “run” was among the best scenes in “The Dirty Dozen.”

 

[hondo]

Goddamit, run Jefferson ...

 

[Azrael]

A very great and terrible man to his rest.

 

[hondo]

Classic Richard Pryor on Jim Brown ...

 

[playthrough]

An extremely complicated figure. Stood for and did a lot of important things that took a lot of courage, but the history of abusing women was just awful.

That section of the wiki page is disturbing: "charges dismissed," "not guilty," "charges dismissed" ...

 

[maumann]

Might have been a better lacrosse player than running back. The amazing thing is most of us never saw him play -- he retired after the 1965 season -- but heard so many anecdotes or saw the NFL highlights that it seemed like we knew he was better than anyone before or since.

Campbell? Peyton? Sanders? Hard to compare those guys against a legend who retired after nine seasons and 118 games.

Actor, activist and analyst but also an abuser and violent man who denigrated women.

A complicated man, as Isaac Hayes would put it.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Classic Richard Pryor on Jim Brown ...

When I was in high school my friends loved that routine.

 

[TigerVols]

Beat women. Enough said.

Jim Brown Did Great Things; He Also Beat Women

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Might have been a better lacrosse player than running back. The amazing thing is most of us never saw him play -- he retired after the 1965 season -- but heard so many anecdotes or saw the NFL highlights that it seemed like we knew he was better than anyone before or since.

Campbell? Peyton? Sanders? Hard to compare those guys against a legend who retired after nine seasons and 118 games.

Actor, activist and analyst but also an abuser and violent man who denigrated women.

A complicated man, as Isaac Hayes would put it.

I saw him more than once, maybe 4-5 times, when the Browns came to Philly at Franklin Field. A fine memory.

 

[micropolitan guy]

The Browns were the closest NFL team to WNY so we saw all their games on the local CBS affiliate. They were my favorite NFL team, and he was my favorite player. He dominated his era.

Brown, Green, Warfield, Collins, Glass, Wooten, Shafrath, Hickerson, Fiss, Bernie Parrish, Vince Costello, Frank Ryan ... great players of my youth.

RIP, Mr. Brown, the first of the great # 44s from Syracuse.

 

[misterbc]

Saw many of that era Browns games as well on CTV in Canada. And, of course, they played a lot of playoff games too. I remember Leroy Kelley as a rookie returning punts. Glad you mentioned Galen Fiss, super underrated LB, he made plays constantly for many years. He just passed a couple of years ago, I believe. **** Shafrath always running into the end zone to congratulate the touchdown scorer. But Jim Brown was THE man.