RIP Jim Brown

Nearly 50 years ago, a 12-year old kid in California sent a $50 money order to a card shop in Pennsylvania for a Jim Brown rookie card. 

It was a a different time. 

The only thing that has truly changed over those 50 years is the price of that card. 

Jim Brown’s only NFL title was the year that I was born. He retired a year later. The best of his nine-year career was before I was here. All of his career was before I was aware. I can not imagine an NFL without him. Blood, Grange, Nevers, Slater, Clark, Hein, Hutson, Hinkle, Turner, Motley, Willis, Bednarik, Lane, Brown!

Jim-f-in-Brown. 

I wish that I still had that damn card. And I wish that the Jim Brown was still running over Sam Huff. 

RIP Jim Brown.