Football legend Jim Brown deceased at 87

[CS85]

 

[MJWalker45]

Sad to hear this, but not surprised to hear. He'd been dealing with a lot of health issues over the last few years, and the amount of damage he and others of his age took on playing when they did wouldn't have helped. He put in a lot of work to help others on and off the field, though he did have his own demons that dominated parts of his life after football. The love he had for the city of Cleveland, as well as for the Browns, will be sorely missed. 

[Ferdinand Cesarano]

Jim Brown was also a star in lacrosse. He eventually bought the MLL team originally known as the Long Island Lizards, and changed the name to the New York Lizards.

 

 

The possibility of Brown's comeback to football at age 47 or 48 was huge news. He didn't want Franco Harris to break his career yardage record, and he actually said several unkind things about Harris at the time. Brown was in talks with the Los Angeles Raiders, and was even pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated in a Raiders uniform.

 

 

Here Brown discusses his potential comeback with David Letterman in 1984.

 

 

 

Brown also mentions the idea of playing for the L.A. Express of the USFL; and I am sorry to say that Dave is dismissive of this.

 

Anyway, Brown said that his comeback was contingent upon beating Harris in the 40-yard dash. The two raced, and Harris won. Brown called off his comeback. But it was an exciting year or so with the possibility swirling.

[Cosmic]

As someone who was born after his playing days, I'll remember him best as the guy from Mars Attacks.

[Cujo]

This guy was a real piece of shlt.

 

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In 1965, Brown was arrested in his hotel room for assault and battery against an 18-year-old named Brenda Ayres; he was later acquitted of those charges.^[81] A year later, he fought paternity allegations that he fathered Brenda Ayres' child.^[85]

In 1968, Brown was charged with assault with intent to commit murder after model Eva Bohn-Chin was found beneath the balcony of Brown's second-floor apartment.^[86] The charges were later dismissed after Bohn-Chin refused to cooperate with the prosecutor's office. Brown was also ordered to pay a $300 fine for striking a deputy sheriff involved in the investigation during the incident. In Brown's autobiography, he stated that Bohn-Chin was angry and jealous over an affair he had been having with Gloria Steinem, and this argument is what led to the "misunderstanding with the police".^[87]

In 1970, Brown was found not guilty of assault and battery, the charges stemming from a road-rage incident that had occurred in 1969.^[88]

In December 1973, Brown proposed to 18-year-old Diane Stanley, a Clark College student he met in Acapulco, Mexico, in April of that year.^[89][90] They broke off their engagement in 1974.^[91]

In 1975, Brown was convicted of misdemeanor battery for beating and choking his golfing partner, Frank Snow. He was sentenced to one day in jail, two years' probation, and a fine of $500.^[92][93]

In 1985, Brown was charged with raping a 33-year-old woman.^[94] The charges were later dismissed.^[95]

In 1986, Brown was arrested for assaulting his fiancée Debra Clark.^[96] Clark refused to press charges, though, and Brown was released.^[97]

Brown married his second wife, Monique, in 1997; they have two children.^[98] In 1999, Brown was arrested and charged with making terroristic threats toward his wife. Later that year, he was found guilty of vandalism for smashing his wife's car with a shovel.^[99] He was sentenced to three years' probation, one year of domestic violence counseling, and 400 hours of community service or 40 hours on a work crew along with a $1,800 fine.^[100] Brown ignored the terms of his sentence and in 2000 was sentenced to six months in jail, which he began serving in 2002 after refusing the court-ordered counseling and community service.^[101] He was released after three months.^[102][103]