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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on May 19, 2023, 05:13:13 PM
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Thought I'd toss this in here considering Eupher and SVPete have been posting relevant current events as of late.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, the unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, has died. He was 87.
A spokeswoman for Brown’s family said he passed away peacefully in his Los Angeles home on Thursday night with his wife, Monique, by his side.
“To the world, he was an activist, actor, and football star,” Monique Brown wrote in an Instagram post. “To our family, he was a loving husband, father, and grandfather. Our hearts are broken.”
One of the greatest players in football history and one of the game’s first superstars, Brown was chosen the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 1965 and shattered the league’s record books in a short career spanning 1957-65.
Brown led the Cleveland Browns to their last NFL title in 1964 before retiring in his prime after the ’65 season to become an actor. He appeared in more than 30 films, including “Any Given Sunday” and “The Dirty Dozen.”
An unstoppable runner with power, speed and endurance, Brown’s arrival sparked the game’s burgeoning popularity on television.
As Black Americans fought for equality, Brown used his platform and voice to advance their cause.
In 1967, Brown organized a meeting in Cleveland of the nation’s top Black athletes, including Bill Russell and Lew Alcindor, who later became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, to support boxer Muhammad Ali’s fight against the war in Vietnam.
In later years, he worked to curb gang violence in LA and founded Amer-I-Can, a program to help disadvantaged inner-city youth and ex-convicts.”
“Jim Brown is a true icon of not just the Cleveland Browns but the entire NFL,” said Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam. “He was certainly the greatest to ever put on a Browns uniform and arguably one of the greatest players in NFL history. Jim was one of the reasons the Browns have such a tremendous fan base today.
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2023/05/19/all-time-nfl-great-jim-brown-dead-at-87/
One of the few who absolute greats who walked away from their sports at their peak, which also include legends such as Sandy Koufax and Bobby Jones.
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Rest in Peace, Fireball. :fuelfire:
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Thought I'd toss this in here considering Eupher and SVPete have been posting relevant current events as of late.
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Relevant to Jim Brown? I remember his having been one of the many actors in the film "The Dirty Dozen" but that's about it.
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Relevant to Jim Brown? I remember his having been one of the many actors in the film "The Dirty Dozen" but that's about it.
Relevant to resurrecting the "Breaking News" forum, which has drawn tumbleweeds the past few years.
And I truly enjoy reading the links y'all have been posting. Personally read dozens of similar items that I never get around to posting, so much appreciation my friend!
I'm well aware that sports isn't in your preferred genre, but losing a sports legend such as Jim Brown is comparable to B.B. King passing away. He is generally considered one of the top 25 legendary sports figures of the 20th century. Additionally, later in life Brown perturbed the left by supporting conservative political policies.
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He retired before I started really paying attention to oblate-spheroid-ball, but I have vague memories of replays of his runs, very elusive. He wasn’t the whole Browns team, obviously, but seems to have been the key element in the larger whole.
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Loved 'im as a football-player. Loved 'im as an actor. R.I.P., Jim.
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Relevant to resurrecting the "Breaking News" forum, which has drawn tumbleweeds the past few years.
And I truly enjoy reading the links y'all have been posting. Personally read dozens of similar items that I never get around to posting, so much appreciation my friend!
I'm well aware that sports isn't in your preferred genre, but losing a sports legend such as Jim Brown is comparable to B.B. King passing away. He is generally considered one of the top 25 legendary sports figures of the 20th century. Additionally, later in life Brown perturbed the left by supporting conservative political policies.
I guess I misspoke. Having grown up in the Sixties and being a moderate fan of my home town teams (Pistons, Lions, Tigers, Red Wings), I was familiar with Jim Brown as a football player and as an actor.
IIRC, Brown was a class act on and off the field - certainly not the case you see very often these days in professional sports.