He is a rich man and doesn’t need the NFL. But there are a LOT of offensive/defensive lineman and running backs who took a beating and are on hard times now. I get that it’s entertainment and no one forced them to play football. And I also get that they all probably could have taken their free college more seriously and gone into other professions or tired to get a job within the NFL. The analogy to the NBA is laughable. The NBA has 12 players on a the roster. The NFL has almost 100 between regular and practice players. Can’t compare the two.
Jim Brown had an anti-gang program that worked in some areas. He negotiated peace between crips and bloods that i think lasted over a year in LA. Two stories:
Pryor was at a bar with JB. He said JB was the toughest man he ever knew. He threw a detective over a second story balcony for disrupting him. A guy walks up to Brown and says, I’m gonna whip your ass. Brown puts his drink down and starts outside saying, I guess that’s an ass whipping I’m gonna have to take. The guy disappeared.
JB and associates had a proposal before Grant HS officials in Sacramento a high gang campus. The school board hmm and hawed and then brown walked out with his associates. brown told a Sac Bee reporter, i guess politics are more important than kids dying at Grant HS. Went strait to the airport and caught the last flight back to LA
JB has cred. He ran over guys rather than run out of bounds. He almost walked din picture because he and Rachel Welch had a love scenes. Welch said ion he walked, she would too. First interracial with so much skin.
He supports trumps basically “economics for all people and not bullshit.”
I was Cleveland fan as boy and when he retired early, i almost cried. Whatever you say or think about Brown, he is a man’s man and lives life as he chooses.