05-21-2023, 11:12 AM
(05-20-2023, 04:51 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: Jim Brown was a legend on the football field and has a strong argument for being one of the greatest of all time. However...
I would stop short of saying he was a great person off the field and that we need more people like him. He had a horrific history of beating several women (and men) over the course of three decades, including multiple rape accusations.
Absolutely legendary football player and deserving of all praise coming towards his way. A deplorable man off the field.
Yeah he was one of the all time champs of beating the dog shit out of girls. He even threw one out of a second story window once. Also allegedly "violently raped" women at the Playboy mansion. These aren't exactly isolated incidents, either. It happened over and over, and the details were always pretty extreme.
Ray Rice was run out of the league for getting caught on camera punching a woman. Addison Russell hasn't stepped foot on a MLB diamond since he got busted for DV. Mike Tyson went to jail, and took decades to salvage what was left of his image.
Brown will be one of the last athletes to keep his legacy mostly intact while being a serial abuser of women.
If Browns fans celebrate Brown as a player, then they better damn well keep Joe Mixon's single offense with a stray allegation out of their mouths.
