"...He was one of the 10 most important athletes ever to put on a jersey. It doesn’t do Brown justice to consider him only the most dominant running back in NFL history because, in college at Syracuse, he was also a lacrosse superstar in addition to lettering in basketball and track. He went to the NFL in 1957 and won three MVPs in nine record-breaking seasons with the Cleveland Browns, flashing his athletic collage of speed, power, agility and fearlessness. And then he left after the 1965 season, retiring from football officially at 30 years old, to focus on his acting career and to fight harder for African Americans seeking equality during a volatile period in American history."... -- The Washington Post's Jerry Brewer, in his remembrance, "Jim Brown was a confounding knot of athleticism, activism and violence." Jim Brown died on Thursday at the age of 87. His team, the Cleveland Browns, memorialized him as the legend and trailblazer he is:
