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    Jim Brown, legendary running back and civil rights activist, dead at 87

    Jim Brown, a preternatural talent on the football field and later both a movie star and civil rights activist, has died. He was 87 years old.

    His wife, Monique Brown, announced his death on Instagram.

    "It is with profound sadness that I announce the passing of my husband, Jim Brown," she wrote. "He passed peacefully last night at our LA home. To the world he was an activist, actor, and football star. To our family, he was a loving and wonderful husband, father, and grandfather. Our hearts are broken."

    "It’s impossible to describe the profound love and gratitude we feel for having the opportunity to be a small piece of Jim’s incredible life and legacy," the Cleveland Browns, the only team he played for in the NFL, said in a statement. "We mourn his passing, but celebrate the indelible light he brought to the world."
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    Jim Brown, legendary running back and civil rights activist, dead at 87 (msn.com)​
    "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves us all not to talk about the rest of us." Robert Louis Stevenson
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    I doubt if very many of you all ever saw Jim Brown play. Although not a Browns fan, I still enjoyed watching him play. I'd say he would have been great in any era.
    "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves us all not to talk about the rest of us." Robert Louis Stevenson

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      I didn't realize he was that old.

      My late FIL was a Browns fan and Otto Graham was one of his favorite players followed by Jim Brown.
      Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

      Clint Eastwood

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        Originally posted by Matt Dillon View Post
        I doubt if very many of you all ever saw Jim Brown play. Although not a Browns fan, I still enjoyed watching him play. I'd say he would have been great in any era.
        I would have liked to see him play.
        Aspirational...

        Originally posted by John Stuart Mill
        He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that... He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
        Originally posted by Charlie Munger
        I never allow myself to hold an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do

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