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Title: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: Hawk on June 13, 2012, 06:58:03 PM
No one in the history of the NFL could quite keep up with this guy, check out some of his amazing highlights and interviews of some of the biggest NFL names.

Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: wild willie on June 13, 2012, 07:26:35 PM
I think the following gents are among the very best.....Hard to pick just one.

Jim

Gale

Barry

Walter

and maybe even A P

Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: Hawk on June 13, 2012, 08:22:44 PM
I think the following gents are among the very best.....Hard to pick just one.

Jim

Gale

Barry

Walter

and maybe even A P


JB wipes the floor with all of 'em.
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: wild willie on June 13, 2012, 09:47:46 PM
JB wipes the floor with all of 'em.
They are all sensational running backs. IMHO
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: tu_holmes on June 13, 2012, 09:54:53 PM
Too many great running backs to mention...
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: Dos Equis on June 13, 2012, 11:17:03 PM
Barry is my all time favorite.  Then Bo and Payton.
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: funk51 on June 14, 2012, 07:27:09 AM
No one in the history of the NFL could quite keep up with this guy, check out some of his amazing highlights and interviews of some of the biggest NFL names.


agreed he was my favorite player as a kid.
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: UPINTHEMGUTS on June 14, 2012, 10:32:36 AM
As great as he was...he wouldn't be running wild like that in today's NFL.....I know I'll catch major shit for saying that but it's the absolute truth. Today's NFL players are so much bigger, faster, and stronger, regardless of steriod use.

Plus...he was 6'2" when he played. He would've gotten clobbered with the way he ran tall.



Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: funk51 on June 14, 2012, 11:53:29 AM
As great as he was...he wouldn't be running wild like that in today's NFL.....I know I'll catch major shit for saying that but it's the absolute truth. Today's NFL players are so much bigger, faster, and stronger, regardless of steriod use.

Plus...he was 6'2" when he played. He would've gotten clobbered with the way he ran tall.




i was waiting for that one, don't penalize the guy for the era he played in. the one year he didn't lead the league in rushing; he broke his wrist so he just carried the ball in the other hand. never missed a game...
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: funk51 on June 14, 2012, 12:01:01 PM
they used to punish a guy more back than, they would beat on the runners when they got them down, it wasn't the pussified, water down version of football we got now...
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: funk51 on June 14, 2012, 12:03:00 PM
 ???
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: funk51 on June 14, 2012, 12:04:31 PM
when john baker tackled you this was sometimes the end result. ;D
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: funk51 on June 14, 2012, 12:09:08 PM
chuck b used to like to leave guys for dead and celebrate over their lifless bodies.
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: funk51 on June 14, 2012, 12:12:01 PM
 :o
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: wild willie on June 27, 2012, 09:28:24 AM
I was in Las Vegas last week.....Met Dick Butkus...He was signing autographs @ a sports shop in Caesars Palace.....Great guy....very friendly.....I asked him who was the toughest running back to bring down....He mentioned two names.....Jim Brown and Jim Taylor.
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: Mr Nobody on June 27, 2012, 11:44:00 PM
John Riggins.
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: funk51 on June 28, 2012, 03:59:36 PM
I was in Las Vegas last week.....Met Dick Butkus...He was signing autographs @ a sports shop in Caesars Palace.....Great guy....very friendly.....I asked him who was the toughest running back to bring down....He mentioned two names.....Jim Brown and Jim Taylor.
jim taylor led league the year brown broke his wrist....
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: Andy Griffin on July 03, 2012, 04:49:16 PM
Jim Brown likes to pee on women.

Greatest running back ever. 
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: Mr Nobody on July 03, 2012, 08:45:19 PM
Jim Brown likes to pee on women.

Greatest running back ever. 
Yep
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: Beefjake on July 04, 2012, 12:47:38 PM
Jim Brown likes to pee on women.

Is that a bad thing?
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: Andy Griffin on July 04, 2012, 03:54:39 PM
Is that a bad thing?

Of course not.  I think they appreciate him being man enough to do it. 
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: Beefjake on July 05, 2012, 12:14:16 PM
Of course not.  I think they appreciate him being man enough to do it. 

Thought so.

Hell, I played ½quarter-pro running back, with a middle of the pack results and
I like to pee on women too!
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: The Showstoppa on July 05, 2012, 01:21:29 PM
Brown was dominate during his time period of 210-220lb middle line backers...... he would get smoked by todays players.....  bigger, stronger, faster...it's impossible to say "greatest ever" because of the differences in sports by generation.
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: Dos Equis on July 05, 2012, 01:25:59 PM
Brown was dominate during his time period of 210-220lb middle line backers...... he would get smoked by todays players.....  bigger, stronger, faster...it's impossible to say "greatest ever" because of the differences in sports by generation.

Agree, except you can argue that modern day players are "better" because they are in fact bigger, stronger, and faster. 
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: The Showstoppa on July 05, 2012, 01:42:20 PM
Agree, except you can argue that modern day players are "better" because they are in fact bigger, stronger, and faster. 

I agree with that, to an extent.  i actually think the mental make-up of the older generations in EVERY sport was superior.  If you could combine, for example, Bill Russell's drive with Shaq's physical gifts it would be incredible.  People forget that Russell was only 6'9" or so, playing center.

As for football players, give me the old QB's who got smacked in the mouth over the "don't wrinkle my skirt/Tom Brady" types we have now.
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: Dos Equis on July 05, 2012, 02:51:39 PM
I agree with that, to an extent.  i actually think the mental make-up of the older generations in EVERY sport was superior.  If you could combine, for example, Bill Russell's drive with Shaq's physical gifts it would be incredible.  People forget that Russell was only 6'9" or so, playing center.

As for football players, give me the old QB's who got smacked in the mouth over the "don't wrinkle my skirt/Tom Brady" types we have now.


Agree.  Lack of mental toughness, discipline, work ethic, etc. are rampant among today's athletes.  

Agree about old school football players.  You ever watch the NFL Crunch Course?  We watched that video about 100 times.   :)

Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: The Showstoppa on July 06, 2012, 05:42:24 AM
Agree.  Lack of mental toughness, discipline, work ethic, etc. are rampant among today's athletes.  

Agree about old school football players.  You ever watch the NFL Crunch Course?  We watched that video about 100 times.   :)



Oh yeah!  Had forgotten all about it.  Very good video.  Tough bastards.
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: funk51 on July 06, 2012, 11:02:34 AM
Brown was dominate during his time period of 210-220lb middle line backers...... he would get smoked by todays players.....  bigger, stronger, faster...it's impossible to say "greatest ever" because of the differences in sports by generation.
i don't think so brown was used to playing in a tougher era before they pussified the rules to keep wimps like tom brady on the field john baker would have made brady go wee wee and run all the way home.....
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: The Showstoppa on July 07, 2012, 02:40:57 PM
i don't think so brown was used to playing in a tougher era before they pussified the rules to keep wimps like tom brady on the field john baker would have made brady go wee wee and run all the way home.....

Naaah, the guys Brown was up against were much smaller and much slower.  They haven't changed the rules much on RB's compared to QB's, so the pussification of that position really doesn't matter.  RB's still have very short careers and most end up with some type of injury either to the knee, hips, ankles, etc...

Brown would be a solid RB, but no way he would put up the numbers now that he did then.  The game has changed drastically.
Title: Re: Jim Brown Greatest Running Back Ever!
Post by: Mr Nobody on July 18, 2012, 07:39:00 PM
Walter Payton