Jim Brown Lived a Remarkable Life Like Few Other Athletes

Posted Jun 24, 2023
Jim Brown was not just the best football player ever to pull on pads and a helmet, he was also one of the most complex sports characters of the 20th century—on the field a transcendent ballcarrier, and off it a forceful social activist and a leader among the first generation of Black athletes to use their status as a weapon in the nascent civil rights movement. (Sports Illustrated)

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