I am This Old

Football
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It is really incredible how many decades Jim Brown was considered the best RB ever in the NFL. Given what he accomplished, he still may be.

He also crossed over into mainstream entertainment, making movies. I still remember going to the theater and seeing him in The Dirty Dozen, starring Lee Marvin, etc. He also was a civil rights activist, along side Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Muhammed Ali and Bill Russell.

Not too many athletes today or yesteryear, that can match those accomplishments.

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Iā€™ve seen an awful lot of RBs, Brown was the best. Heck it took 3 or 4 guys to bring him down every time. Of course, he was 232 pounds. Got this from Googleā€¦
During the 1960s, the average offensive lineman was around 6-foot-3 and 251 pounds. Defensive linemen of that era were of similar or slightly lighter stature.

Bo Jackson and Gale Sayers are my top 3

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The first championship games I remember watching on TV (never been to Super Bowl) were the Packers-Cowboys games in the sixties. Still remember Bart Starr sneaking it in to win the game.

The only way Iā€™ll ever attend a Super Bowl in person is if the Texans are playing, and since Iā€™m about to turn 68 I think Vegas would not give me good odds on this happening while Iā€™m still on this side of the grass!

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To this day, a Dallas friend of mine says that Dallas Cowboy DL Jethro Pugh swears Green Bay OL Jerry Kramer was offsides on the QB sneak in the Ice Bowl.

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I watched the 1967 Ice Bowl.

Cowboys could have won that game. But the Bart Starr sneak won it.

Last hurrah for The Packers. Lombardi retired. It then took them 30 years to return to glory.

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I will witness our Nationā€™s 250th Anniversary in July.

I celebrated our 200 year Anniversary in 1976.

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Saw very first one KC and Green Bay
Won a bunch of school lunch money on Jets vs Colts

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Was that a yellow lined tablet?

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Big Chiefā€¦

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And donā€™t forget he murdered his wife.

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I think that was the ice bowl. Remember feeling cold through the TV.

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Brown might have nearly killed his wife when he beat the crap out of her, but murder? That was the strictly OJ territory.

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Yea, Jim Brown did not murder his wife. He was charged several times with assault, mainly against women.

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I remember early in the AFL days when the Colts came to Houston to play a preseason game and the Dome was packed with people to watch the legendary Colts. Johnny U didnā€™t start the game and the Oilers had the lead late in the game and they put Johnny U in and it was like magic, like taking candy from a baby. He marched them right down field and won the game. He is truly one of the greatest ever!

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How many people thought that the U on the Baltimore Colts helmet was for Unitas rather than a horseshoe?

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Most underrated QB in NFL history

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By the by it always was odd that a team named The Colts was in Baltimore.

There used to be a rival league started in 1940ā€™s that pre-dated The AFL(Oilers were original members in 1960).

Cleveland Browns and LA Rams were amongst its membership.

Another member was The Dallas Colts. That franchise moved to Baltimore and joined The NFL as did the other teams.

The Colts beat The Cowboys by 8 years in terms of having a Pro Football team in Dallas.

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My bad, mixed up great running backs. One a great guy and the other a pos.

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Was that the Dallas Colts? I thought they were the Dallas Texans who ŵent bankrupt and remaining assets moved to Baltimore.

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The Dallas Texans moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs:

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