# Jim Brown (NFL) Turns 80 Today **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 18, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-brown-nfl-turns-80-today/746395 "2016-02-18T00:49:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-brown-nfl-turns-80-today/746395/1 "2016-02-18T00:49:26Z")
Happy Birthday to one of the greatest of all time. Brown led the NFL in 8 of his 9 seasons, he played his entire career with one team, the Cleveland Browns, and he retired in his prime. And he went into acting and co-starred with Racquel Welch. Whoo boy. Need we say more? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-brown-nfl-turns-80-today/746395/2 "2016-02-18T01:13:37Z")
We could say that he could beat Chuck Norris to a pulp. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-brown-nfl-turns-80-today/746395/3 "2016-02-18T01:37:05Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Happy Birthday to one of the greatest of all time. Brown led the NFL in 8 of his 9 seasons, he played his entire career with one team, the Cleveland Browns, and he retired in his prime. > > And he went into acting and co-starred with Racquel Welch. Whoo boy. > > Need we say more? accused several times of beating up women ---
**Author:** ![CAMJAY77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CAMJAY77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAMJAY77)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-brown-nfl-turns-80-today/746395/4 "2016-02-18T02:27:31Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Happy Birthday to one of the greatest of all time. Brown led the NFL in 8 of his 9 seasons, he played his entire career with one team, the Cleveland Browns, and he retired in his prime. > > And he went into acting and co-starred with Racquel Welch. Whoo boy. > > Need we say more? That is not a bad movie I have the dvd. JB got it on with her. Raquel was/is so hot. the water tower shower scene 🙂 [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0apn8t5Ick) ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-brown-nfl-turns-80-today/746395/5 "2016-02-18T04:33:29Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > accused several times of beating up women Damn son!!! You just gon’ put pop’s business out there like that? Watching ESPN highlights showing how unstoppable Jim was, not even close to fair. Was he ever stopped one-on-one? ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-brown-nfl-turns-80-today/746395/6 "2016-02-18T04:46:37Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > And he went into acting and co-starred with Racquel Welch. Whoo boy. He also starred in [Tick, Tick, Tick](https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=tick+tick+tick+jim+brown&&view=detail&mid=4537C36CEE08F31D49794537C36CEE08F31D4979&FORM=VRDGAR)with George Kenney. A very forgettable movie except it was filmed in the bumfuck northern California town I grew up in and used to simulate the deep south. There is a scene where Jim Brown goes onto a school bus and scares the bejesus out of the school kids, and those kids were in the classroom next to mine in the second grade. School held a lottery and that class was randomly picked. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-brown-nfl-turns-80-today/746395/7 "2016-02-18T07:26:28Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > accused several times of beating up women Wow, never heard of that, didn’t realize it. Football, such a violent game, and domestic abuse is probably more common among the players. Warren Moon, just for one. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-brown-nfl-turns-80-today/746395/8 "2016-02-18T07:27:30Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > Damn son!!! You just gon’ put pop’s business out there like that? > Watching ESPN highlights showing how unstoppable Jim was, not even close to fair. Was he ever stopped one-on-one? Brian Bosworth, I bet. LOL! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-brown-nfl-turns-80-today/746395/9 "2016-02-18T07:30:57Z")
[quote=“CAMJAY77, post:4, topic:746395”] That is not a bad movie I have the dvd. JB got it on with her. Raquel was/is so hot. the water tower shower scene 🙂 [/QUOTE] Actually I never saw the movie. Thank you for this video. Thank you, thank you, thank you. She kept cleaning her breasts, I’m sure they were squeaky clean. ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-brown-nfl-turns-80-today/746395/10 "2016-02-18T07:40:01Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > Damn son!!! You just gon’ put pop’s business out there like that? > Watching ESPN highlights showing how unstoppable Jim was, not even close to fair. Was he ever stopped one-on-one? Not versus a woman, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-brown-nfl-turns-80-today/746395/11 "2016-02-18T15:41:51Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > Damn son!!! You just gon’ put pop’s business out there like that? > Watching ESPN highlights showing how unstoppable Jim was, not even close to fair. Was he ever stopped one-on-one? I remember watching Brown play. If he got through the defensive line into the secondary, I swear it was like watching a bowling ball knock down pins. Defensive backs HAD to gang tackle him. I don’t know if there was ever a runner who combined speed and power better than Brown, but I doubt it. Looking up his stats he twice caught 40+ passes in a year. My memory is back then, teams didn’t often throw short passes to running backs. ``` One thing I remember reading in a book that reviewed the 1965 football season was a section on team's favorite plays. It said Cleveland often had a halfback option pass where Brown could throw it if he wanted. He wouldn't unless the receiver was wide open. Looking up his stats on football-reference, Brown completed 4 of 12 passes in his career but 3 were touchdowns. ``` Brown was the 6th player chosen in the 1957 draft. Granted two in front, Paul Hornung and Len Dawson are in the Hall of Fame and John Brodie and Ron Kramer were pretty good. Jon Arnett , whom I never heard of, made 5 Pro Bowls. But how did they overlook Brown? Poor scouting? Bigotry? Draft by need? ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-brown-nfl-turns-80-today/746395/12 "2016-02-20T01:08:36Z")
Raquel was great, too. I had THE poster. My gf points out that Jim was _Playgirl_’s Man of the Month in an early issue, full frontal. The mag’s Wiki entry verifies (without that pic). > **[Playgirl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playgirl)** > > Playgirl was an American magazine that featured general interest articles, lifestyle and celebrity news, in addition to nude or semi-nude men. In the 1970s and 1980s, the magazine printed monthly and was marketed mainly to women, although it had a significant gay male readership. > The magazine was founded in 1973 by Douglas Lambert during the height of the feminist movement as a response to erotic men's magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse that featured similar photos of women. In 1977, Lamber...