Posted on 12/09/2019 9:36:29 AM PST by GLH3IL
"Brown highlighted what he feels are low pensions for older retired players. For those who retired before 1993, the rate is about $2,500 a month for a player who spent seven years in the league. Brown called it shockingly, immorally, low.
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
I think it was in 1966 that the Browns were in Dallas playing the Cowboys in a playoff game at the Cotton Bowl.
Me and the wife were in front row seats in the upper deck. Temperature was probably 15* with snow on the ground and a brisk wind.
Jim Brown had many carries where he would just bowl over the would-be tacklers. ...At the end of the game, the Cowboys were in position to score and win; then Don Meredith threw an interception into the end zone.
Yep, Browns won.
That's the biggie. And heaven knows the institutions of higher learning, ha ha, that churn these guys out are happy to help.
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