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Jim Brown, if you'll recall, may have been the best tailback in the history of the NFL. He certainly was the best of his era, and his career mark of 5.0 yards per carry may never be matched.
He also stepped away from the game in his prime to pursue an aggressive social agenda, one that has made him an undoubtedly divisive figure. Even though he's the head of the Amer-I-Can Program, his legacy will probably be more defined by his blaxploitation movie career than his good deeds. So it goes.
He's still working on that legacy, though, and on an upcoming ESPN piece on Bill Russell, he had some choice words for Tiger Woods:
"You know what's so interesting about Tiger to me?" Brown said. "He
is a killer, he will run over you, he will kick your ass. But as an
individual for social change? Terrible. Terrible. Because he can get
away with teaching kids to play golf, and that's his contribution. In
the real world, I can't teach kids to play golf and that&...
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