I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. Now, this was before the Bengals so everyone was a Browns fan. I always watched the games with my father and brother, and I was amazed at the ability of Jim Brown. RIP Jim!!
What amazes me the most about Jim Brown is the numbers he put up were in an era that was only a 12 game season. Only the last two years of his career there were 14 game seasons. If he played in a 16 game season or now 17 games, he would be the first player with 20,000 yards rushing
He was running over the local Milk man😂 No wonder his stats looked like that imagine if he played against the football players today it would’ve be that easy for him, would still be great but not much better than Derrick Henry i’d imagine
THE BEST fast strong agile and a beast for contact,ability is great you couple that with availability he NEVER missed a game... the only back that has almost all his gifts was Earl Campbell... Brown was the best Lacrosse player in the nation,average almost 40 points a game in high school basketball career,there was nothing this man wouldn't have excelled at!!
I live in his home town. I talk with Jim Brown and gave him a copy of my gospel music. Jim Brown had much wisdom. My son were request to play and sing at his Daughter homegoing service. JIM BROWN would come home everyone knew he was Home. GREAT MAN OF GOD.
We were living in Chicago in the Sixties. I was a Packer fan,not a Bears fan. But we got a lot of Clevelands games on TV. Jim Brown had it all and in my opinion,the BEST running back there ever was.
I agree with you that Jim Brown was the GOAT. However, don’t forget that he did have a bad game now and then. He wasn’t Superman. I recall the 1958 playoff against the Giants with a trip to the NFL championship against the Colts at stake, when he rushed for 8 yards in 7 carries. He could be stopped occasionally, and he was. From watching his highlight films, you would think that he ran for a TD every time he touched the ball. He didn’t. Sometimes he was completely shut down. He was also quite fumble prone, and Jim was not a particularly good blocker either. He had weaknesses in his game. Also, he was never able to defeat Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers even once during his entire NFL career. NOT ONCE!!! Lombardi always contained Jim Brown whenever Green Bay played Cleveland. I think Brown was like 0-7 against the Packers over the course of his 9 years. And whenever he went head to head against Jim Taylor, Jim Taylor always got the better of him. Just sayin...
Thank you, JIM BROWN for doing your part to help tame mankind with your gift, talent, strength and intelligence. Your legacy cannot be undone. Once a true childhood role model and still.
Saw Jim Brown play in 50’s and60’s against my hometown Giants with my pops at Yankee Stadium. Never forget him running along the sideline , popping Huff, Patton and Robustelli away with his forearm and staying in bounds.. Became a believer right then an there that he was, and is greatest football player ever!
@@johngudites3142 hi John don’t remember a snowy game but they were all brutal contact, gang tackling affairs as the rules were more open to that type of play. I did go to the 1962 NFL championship game at the stadium between the Packers and Giants, Packers beat them again, brutal game as Giants beat up on Jim Taylor, who had beaten out Jim Brown that year for the rushing leader. I was the only New Yorker who was a Packer fan, loved their rushing style game, plus I thought Giants were overrated by N Y press. My pops and I were so cold that day , my fingers are still frosttbit today ! I was a Jim Taylor fan that year, but the greatness of Jim Brown was undeniable, he won the title in 1965.
@@larrycasper4381 In 1964, Brown and the Browns won the NFL title, not the NFC title. The Buffalo Bills won the AFL title. Too bad they never played each other.
So glad that I got to grow up and watch REAL football games back in the day. Jim Brown was an absolute beast running with the ball. Thank you JB for giving me the pleasure of watching you play ball and act. R.I.P. legend
Allow me to second your acclamation. The footage exhibits well BROWN's stiff arm. Hard to argue BROWN's stiff arm was all time best from his playing days to the present.
If you watch the recent A&E series about Playboy and Hugh Hefner, Jim Brown was a scumbag and a horribly violent sexual predator. He was an even bigger scumbag than Bill Cosby. WRZ 2022-03-11
I got to see Jim Brown he was in the Cavs parade for the Cavs championship parade I'm 64 years old and also I see this car coming down the beginning in the parade and I see this man on top of this car and I knew right away that was Jim Brown I knew it was him he had the biggest smile on his face being the leader of our parade for a championship in Cleveland
No one. I mean no one can can top Jim Brown. Saw him play in my early teens years and onward. Not only the greatest football player ever but the greatest college lacrosse player in collegiate history. Also ran track and played basketball at Syracuse. No artificial surface back then. They played in the mud with no footing in the rain. The league was a geared toward the run game. Passing was very difficult. Receivers could half tackled on their routes. Closed lined going across the middle and blindsided on tackles,and offensive lineman couldn’t grab and hold like they do today. Every defense was geared to stop the run. The NFL ranked the 100 greatest players in history and No 1 was Jerry Rice. No.2 was Brown, what a joke. The false argument that if he played today he wouldn’t be as great. Bullshit.with the training and conditioning they have today along with better nutrition, Brown would be be even greater. This was a freaking MAN!
Two players stick out in my memory of the best I've ever seen. Head and shoulders above everyone in their era. Not even close. Jim Brown and Lawrence Taylor
LT was an incredible physical specimen, but dont forget that he was jacked up on coke DURING GAMES throughout his playing career. Might have had a bit to do with his energy and endurance...
@@WhizzingFish12 that’s true then that’s pretty incredible as well. I don’t know if you e ever done coke before. it only lasts in small bursts , so he’d have to use many times during the game. Which I don’t see how he could do that and not get caught . Also it’s extremely dangerous to play sports on coke because your heart is racing dangerously even if you’re sitting there not doing anything , so if you’re overly exerting yourself on coke and I mean for a WHoLE football game that’s absolutely crazy. I remember having a race with one of my friends when we were super bumped up and I Remember getting done the race (sprint). And my heart was going so fast I thought for sure that was it, I was going to die. I literally thought my heart would rupture or seize and I would die. Scared the shit out of me . Never touched the stuff again. And this was 20 years ago when I was 22 and in perfect shape.. Also I knew LT smoked crack when he was in the league , but using during games is a stretch. I doubt that’s true
An incomparably powerful man who grew up in a world with no agency. It is unsurprising that he was a sometimes-violent man, or that he didn't believe in anything but the strength of individuals. If all of us were as powerful of character and body as Jim Brown, that would probably be true. For future generations he is the epitome of a man who did the best in turning an indefatigable spirit into incomparable achievement.
My favorite comment was about the draft. Paul Brown wanted a QB but all the ones he wanted were gone so he had to settle for the best running back at the 6th pick. In the draft, don't overthink your pick. Especially in the first round. Take the best player available and even more so if they are at a premium position which is what running backs were in 1957. In his 9th game he ran for 237 yards which was a record which stood for 14 years and a rookie record which held for 40 years. The next year (1958) he set the record for yards rushing in a season beating the previous record by nearly 400 yards. Which was about 32 yards more per game than the record. He led the league that year for touchdowns with 17 and the next highest player had 8.
@@aarondigby5054 No. Payton, pound for pound wasn't the GOAT. Barry Sanders was better than Payton. OJ was better than both of them. OJ and Sanders played on losing teams just like Brown did. Payton (and Smith) played on stacked teams with great OLines. Brown, Simpson, and Sanders didn't. That's why they don't have Super Bowls. Hell, the Bears didn't even go to Payton for the key score to seal the deal. Jim Brown, OJ Simpson, and Barry Sanders are the Holy Trinity of Running Backs. It's that simple.
He was considered to be one of the greatest running backs of all time, as well as one of the greatest players in NFL history. He was a big guy who stood 6 foot 2 and 232 pound back who was the greatest professional football player ever when he retired from the NFL. He was not only an athlete, but he was an actor as well as a civil rights activist. R.I.P. Jim Brown!!!
It seems that professional athletes in the '50s and '60s --- and you can especially see this in tennis players and football players --- kept their bodies much looser than they do today. They kept the muscular tension out of their bodies, and therefore moved more fluidly when they performed on the field. You can see this with Brown. His legs, hips, shoulders, and arms were loose and fluid when he ran. Contrast that with players today, who seem really tight and stiff. I suspect that this lack of tension helped helped them maintain a better mind-body connection. This helped Brown adapt intuitively and reflexively to evade opponents, and that it helped him maintain his balance better than today's players. For me, this is such a great pleasure to watch for this reason
Home At Last, Would I be correct in thinking you are saying that weight lifting is not that good in some ways for running backs? Perhaps, all these injuries such as hamstring strains, knee injuries etc. are due to tightness from weight lifting. I say knee injuries because weight lifting puts a lot of strain on the joints.
@@captainwaring Quite honestly, I wouldn't be a very good judge as to WHY there appears to be more tension in their bodies. Are you saying that guys like Brown didn't lift weights? That they didn't really do weight training back then? I have no idea. I was thinking about this purely from a psychological standpoint. It seems that society today is more driven to push us to drive to go balls-to-the-walls for any goal --- just the straight line from point A to point B. And this creates psychological tension that manifests in muscular tension. But you could be right. Also, I'm not really that into sports. I mean, I don't watch football very much anymore. But I played tennis and built up a decent club ranking (4.5 at my peak), and I have also been a runner/jogger my entire life. I went through a biking phase. And I figured out more so through my running and tennis that when I was able to keep my body relaxed --- to get rid of the muscular tension --- I got into the zone and played fare better. I could react better in-the-moment the way Brown seems to be doing. My son (now 22) was a very good athlete, and I taught him this principle for his hitting in baseball. He used to tighten his shoulders and hike them up, and I taught him to keep his shoulders and hands totally loose, and his hips too, and it improved his hitting dramatically. I noticed years ago that Tom Brady seemed totally loose. If you look at old footage of Brady his shoulders are totally dropped, and his arms hang and dangle like wet noodles. If you look at Brown you can see his shoulders and hips are loose. Now that I look at these films again, I could be wrong, please correct me if I am, but it seems like Brown is keeping his core loose and fluid. It seems that today's players have these super-tight cores, and they use that to drive their legs like pistons. Whereas Brown's entire body is fluid, and it's like energy is flowing THROUGH him.
Sorry to go on, but it's an interesting topic for me. I'm a huge Elvis fan, and I sing too, and I even noticed that when Elvis performed he was constantly flexing his shoulders forward and down to stretch them and loosen them up. And if you watch him dance with Ann Margret in Viva Las Vegas (the "Come On Everybody" number), he is a better dancer than she is because she is all tight, and he is totally loose, his weight drops to his feet, and he remains centered and balanced and graceful, far more than she is, and she's a professional dancer.
@@HomeAtLast501 Hi Home At Last, I think you are absolutely right about the principles of training in sports and singing and dancing that you espouse. The Tom Brady method is based on pliability. Now, when it comes to dancing, I think Patrick Swazy said that he and his wife kept in shape through Pilates.
Never been another like him.He totally dominated his era.Solid as granite,blazing speed,like a runaway bulldozer.Glad i got to see him play a lot!Never missed a game.Unstoppable!
@@roy1583 I watched Sayers for five years,every week.Maybe the most spectacular running back ever,with Barry Sanders.What unbelievable moves.He scored six touchdowns in a game,in the mud!Injuries cut his career.But Brown was like a HUGE update to anyone who played before him.What a great athlete,and was never injured in a 10 year career.
I’m in my early 20’s and I love football this is my first time seeing jim brown highlights since I’ve heard so much about him…. WOW his tape is so relevant even till this days I see him doing things players can’t do today.. he’s definitely the most exciting player I’ve ever seen!
The highlights are definitely impressive but you have to consider the era he was playing in. Most defensive players had little to no form of technique to their game and relied on brute force.
I have had a very unusual friendship with Jim for 30 years. We have never talked football and I have never been to a game or watched one! But...I feel such love for him as an independent thinker, a kind friend, a no nonsense activist, a great storyteller and a fighter for so many causes. I know him to be a good husband and father. He has been there for me in times of need. I look up to him with huge respect and affection.
RIP Jim Brown, you made fall Sundays in my childhood memorable. My Dad was a Browns fan and there was no other game on the tube but a Browns game. Look, 12 games in a season for his first 4 seasons and 14 for 5 more. Outdoors, on grass fields, and your home field was Cleveland Municipal Stadium. He gained 12,312, 106 TDs, and averaged over 100 yards per game. It must have been downright scary if you were a smallish linebacker, safety, or cornerback and he broke through the line and you had to take him on, 6'2"" and 232 pound with speed, ouch!!! If I'm the Browns and have the ball on my 35 and need a first down to protect a lead, and everyone in the world knows Brown will get the ball and they still can't stop him!!! Thank you Jim for making me a lifelong fan of yours and Pro football. Peace
@@Aceshigh777 Acutally no....O.J.'s my number one. I just typed it wrong lol. That was a typo. He was Derrick Henry, Walter Payton/Gayle Sayers, and Tyriq Hill in the same dude. I'm with YOU, ninja! lol OJ is the GOAT
Jim Brown would be good in any era but most of those 50’s and 60’s defenders would not make it to the NFL draft in the 80’s onward. By the 80’s you had to have the size and speed to even be looked at.
@@vestibulate With literally having only 1/3 of my brain left due to a TBI from being hit by a Huge Truck in 15 and a brain stroke last June, your reference to "Swiss" totally baffles me. Sorry sir, I just don't get it.
Saw about half of Jim Brown's games live on TV and the thing that sticks out in my mind is how almost all of his great plays happened with little or no warning as they unfolded. He simply made, it seems, a thousand great plays out of nowhere. For that reason I really don't think highlight videos do him full justice. He was one athlete that had to be seen live to fully appreciate his greatness. It also has to be understood that from the middle of his rookie season to his last game as a pro he was the main focus of every defense on virtually every play.
Brown was a power back who played without thigh pads and hip pads and yet in nine years missed one half of one game. This is one of the best highlight films I have seen of him.
RIP Jim Brown. Arguably not just the greatest RB in NFL history, but also the greatest player. Maybe the greatest lacrosse player ever to boot. Dick Schaap no longer voted for the Heisman after Paul Hornung beat out Jim Brown to win it. Said it was just blatantly a racial vote. One of the most consequential athletes of all time. Stood with Ali, Bill Russell, Kareem and others during the civil rights struggles.
Someone commented that Jim Brown was as large as the defenders on the field. All large running backs are not elite athletes. But Jim Brown is the cream of the crop. The true measure of a running back is what he does between the tackles.
@@kengordon7462 Do you know what high school & college he played at and was he always a running back? It'd be nice to know his "back story." I remember he was in some movies too. After that I don't know what happened?
@@HyperInflation2020 Thomas Edward Patrick Brady has taken full advantage of the NFL rules of not hitting the quarterback too aggressively. In another era, Brady would be pancaked on every play.
@@ADEEZY1926 Are you kidding me? With the shitty defenses today?...these clowns today don't know how to tackle...it's a lost art. They don't want to work at it! Today's football "players" want to have "FUN"! I don't think they'd have "fun" trying to tackle Jim Brown! These stiffs today are more worried about "dancing" in front of the camera than actual playing> When Brown played...(1957-1965)...you had real men playing football. With the rules today...it's more like "flag" football now! You don't see Jim Brown running out of bounds like they do today to avoid being tackled!!!
@@frederickrapp5396 Butkus is the goat of middle linebackers. He played one side of the ball and never won a championship. Brown played one side of the ball and won a championship. Point is everyone will not win championships. Just my opinion.
He was tremendous for his time but he wouldn't have enjoyed the same success today with the size and strength of today's defensive players. He was a man amongst boys back then.
The best combination of speed, power and balance that you'll ever see at running back, one exception Walter Payton before 1970 merger it's JB, post merger it's Walter Payton. The best two rb ever imho.
Man jim brown was a monster on that field. He would break tackle after tackle after tackle and keep going. I have never seen a RB break as many tackles as he has.
The Super Bowl wasn’t around yet while Jim Brown played but the Cleveland Browns did won 8 championship 4 in the aafl and 4 in the nfl before the super bowl started
@@stevefowler2112 it was then and was until the Millennium a RUNNING BACK league, no team in the NFL was going to win as a throwing team like today's game. Jim was great and he was gonna carry the rock no matter where he played - taking NOTHING away from Coach Brown, a genius in his own right.
@@bishlap I agree with everything you said there, but if you go back and actually look at the Browns offense during the Paul Brown Championship years, they had one of the most advanced passing games in NFL history. Even Don Shula said when Bill Walsh passed that he always thought less of Bill Walsh for "stealing"/using Paul Brown's offense and rebadging it the west coast offense without giving credit to Paul Brwon, which even today the concepts are widely used.
@@stevefowler2112Hey Steve, I agree, didn't mean to imply that PB's offense(s) was limited, NOT AT ALL, Paul Brown may have been the original coaching "genius" in the NFL. What I do/did mean is, PB knew that he had championship LEGS w/ Jim Brown running the ball, and ride him he did. Browns also had good/great QB's, I remember back to Frank Ryan ripping apart great defenses... anyway. NFL RIP.
My dad was in high school in Syracuse when Jim Brown was there. He has a great story about how JB went out, played a lacrosse game and demolished the other team (U Virginia, I think), literally went under the grandstands and changed, and then played a football game where he demolished one of the service academies. Two sport all-American. I would love to have seen that.
Jim brown is easily one of the best maybe even the best running-back to ever do it, in my opinion Walter payton, Barry, and brown are the best running-backs ever.
Being an old guy I've seen literally every back that's on anyone and everyone's "Top 10 All Time List". Jim Brown was best I had ever seen until I saw Barry Sanders. I would never argue with anyone who has Jim Brown at # 1 but Barry Sanders was on another planet.
I think HOF Bob Lilly summed it up perfectly. Paraphrasing. He got in the best football position he could and hit Jim Brown around the end zone. He got up bloody nose and helmet twisted but Jim was standing in the end zone.
Merlin Olsen said about the same thing. He said the hardest he ever hit a player in his career was a hit he put on Jim Brown. He said when he opened his eyes he expected Brown to be lying on his back with his eyes rolled up in his head. Brown just bounced off and went in for a TD.
Alex Karras told a story that in an all-star game, both he and Gino Marchetti hit Brown at the same time, thinking they hurt him and fully expecting him to go down, but Jim recovered his balance and went 60 or 70 yards for a TD. He told that story in one of Plimpton's books.
Jim Brown was not only the greatest running back of all time, or the greatest football player of all time, he was the finest athlete of all time. No one could match him. He had size, speed, strength and intelligence that was off the charts and was someone you could count on when he was needed most. There has been no one like him, and there will never be anyone like him.
@@JosiahTheMinor I saw him play at Yankee Stadium several times and he was unstoppable. He could outrun you, run over you, had moves for a 6'2' 230 lb RB that he shouldn't have had. He was F'in smart also, and a champion in several other sports also. He was one the best American lacrosse players of all time. And he was his own man. When he was in England filming The Dirty Dozen, Paul Brown kept busting his balls to come to training camp threatened to fine him, so Jim said "I'm retiring" and that was that.
Saw him play when I was young in Pittsburgh. I've watched this a few times the last time I watched all the defensive players in this video and what I see is some seriously bad tackling compared to the pros of today. That is not saying Jim Brown wasn't great, he was.
Wrong, it's the tackling of today which is inferior. Most players today tackle high which is not the most efficient way to bring down a ball carrier, especially a good one.
He's the greatest athlete in American history. He was a great lacrosse athlete, too. He's the all time best running back. Give props to the BROWNS offensive line and offensive coaching. Geez...237 yards in a game?
The guy gained over 1,000 yards in every season when the NFL only played a 10 game season. Now guys act like gaining 1000 yards in 17 game season is a big deal.
He was also an All American LaCrosse player at Syracuse. Someone who played against him was quoted as saying, "Imagine Jim Brown running full-tilt right at you carrying a football. Now imagine Jim Brown running at you full-tilt carrying a big stick!"
I am old enough to have seen him play in his prime...in my opinion the three best running backs in NFL history were 1.) Jim Brown, 2.) Gayle Sayers and 3.) Earl Campbell
@@jjm4643 curious, do you know who the all time leader is in the position now? My Dumbphone can't access that info. It didn't even make it thru Chinese kindergarten unfortunately.
I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. Now, this was before the Bengals so everyone was a Browns fan.
I always watched the games with my father and brother, and I was amazed at the ability of Jim Brown. RIP Jim!!
What amazes me the most about Jim Brown is the numbers he put up were in an era that was only a 12 game season. Only the last two years of his career there were 14 game seasons. If he played in a 16 game season or now 17 games, he would be the first player with 20,000 yards rushing
not really--he had 1st 4 seasons 12 games...last 5 were 14 games.Still amazing though. No one was better than Jim Brown.
He was running over the local Milk man😂 No wonder his stats looked like that imagine if he played against the football players today it would’ve be that easy for him, would still be great but not much better than Derrick Henry i’d imagine
An athlete can't be faulted for the limitations of his contemporaries. Being the best of your era is as good as anybody can be.
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Rest in Peace Jim Brown. You were the best running back to have ever lived. 1936-2023
For a guy his size he had deceptive speed
I straight up went on a football strike last year when he died
Came here to re watch a legend. Even though he was before my time can’t deny the impact he had on football. Rip brother you will be cherished.💙
RIP. What an amazing player!
THE BEST fast strong agile and a beast for contact,ability is great you couple that with availability he NEVER missed a game... the only back that has almost all his gifts was Earl Campbell... Brown was the best Lacrosse player in the nation,average almost 40 points a game in high school basketball career,there was nothing this man wouldn't have excelled at!!
I live in his home town. I talk with Jim Brown and gave him a copy of my gospel music. Jim Brown had much wisdom. My son were request to play and sing at his Daughter homegoing service. JIM BROWN would come home everyone knew he was Home. GREAT MAN OF GOD.
In my opinion Jimmy Brown is the greatest of all time....
Mike Forte, That's more than an opinion, That's a fact!
I'd say so too 100 yards per game and five yards per carry as a "career average"? that's insane and most likely will never happen again!
Absolutely!, the verry
Best at his position"
We were living in Chicago in the Sixties.
I was a Packer fan,not a Bears fan.
But we got a lot of Clevelands games on TV.
Jim Brown had it all and in my opinion,the BEST running back there ever was.
I agree with you that Jim Brown was the GOAT. However, don’t forget that he did have a bad game now and then. He wasn’t Superman. I recall the 1958 playoff against the Giants with a trip to the NFL championship against the Colts at stake, when he rushed for 8 yards in 7 carries. He could be stopped occasionally, and he was. From watching his highlight films, you would think that he ran for a TD every time he touched the ball. He didn’t. Sometimes he was completely shut down. He was also quite fumble prone, and Jim was not a particularly good blocker either. He had weaknesses in his game. Also, he was never able to defeat Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers even once during his entire NFL career. NOT ONCE!!! Lombardi always contained Jim Brown whenever Green Bay played Cleveland. I think Brown was like 0-7 against the Packers over the course of his 9 years. And whenever he went head to head against Jim Taylor, Jim Taylor always got the better of him. Just sayin...
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Thank you, JIM BROWN for doing your part to help tame mankind with your gift, talent, strength and intelligence. Your legacy cannot be undone. Once a true childhood role model and still.
Bobby Boushea was just as good...my mama say put Bobby back in the game!
Saw Jim Brown play in 50’s and60’s against my hometown Giants with my pops at Yankee Stadium. Never forget him running along the sideline , popping Huff, Patton and Robustelli away with his forearm and staying in bounds..
Became a believer right then an there that he was, and is greatest football player ever!
Were you there for that snowy /mud game? That was my first NFL game.
@@johngudites3142 hi John don’t remember a snowy game but they were all brutal contact, gang tackling affairs as the rules were more open to that type of play. I did go to the 1962 NFL championship game at the stadium between the Packers and Giants, Packers beat them again, brutal game as Giants beat up on Jim Taylor, who had beaten out Jim Brown that year for the rushing leader.
I was the only New Yorker who was a Packer fan, loved their rushing style game, plus I thought Giants were overrated by N Y press. My pops and I were so cold that day , my fingers are still frosttbit today ! I was a Jim Taylor fan that year, but the greatness of Jim Brown was undeniable, he won the title in 1965.
Just to clarify, when I said he won the title in 1965 , I meant the NFC title because he was the rushing leader every year of his career except 1962.
I was wrong about the year his Brown's won the NF C title it was 1964
@@larrycasper4381 In 1964, Brown and the Browns won the NFL title, not the NFC title. The Buffalo Bills won the AFL title. Too bad they never played each other.
Jim Brown, an amazing NFL player, outstanding actor, civil rights advocate, wonderful person. Very successful RIP brother!! God rest his soul
RIP
He was truly a man amongst boys on the field. One of the greatest players ever. Period.
Niner fan here but Jim brown was something special for sure the goat. Great video
So glad that I got to grow up and watch REAL football games back in the day. Jim Brown was an absolute beast running with the ball. Thank you JB for giving me the pleasure of watching you play ball and act. R.I.P. legend
R.I. P. Jim Brown. The greatest player in NFL history.
Watched him every Sunday as a kid, and thought it would always be so. Was a privilege to see the GOAT and no longer expect to see his equal.
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@@aJerseyThing Call me back in 8-10 years and we'll talk.
That's awesome
This is the best tribute to Jim Brown I've seen. Great footage and commentary. Thank you for posting. Jim Brown is simply the greatest.
Allow me to second your acclamation. The footage exhibits well BROWN's stiff arm. Hard to argue BROWN's stiff arm was all time best from his playing days to the present.
Unstoppable in his prime
@@lloydkline1518 Yes, and his prime was all 9 seasons he played.
If you watch the recent A&E series about Playboy and Hugh Hefner,
Jim Brown was a scumbag and a horribly violent sexual predator.
He was an even bigger scumbag than Bill Cosby.
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@@ccdogpark you mean Harvey Weinstein?
I got to see Jim Brown he was in the Cavs parade for the Cavs championship parade I'm 64 years old and also I see this car coming down the beginning in the parade and I see this man on top of this car and I knew right away that was Jim Brown I knew it was him he had the biggest smile on his face being the leader of our parade for a championship in Cleveland
No one. I mean no one can can top Jim Brown. Saw him play in my early teens years and onward. Not only the greatest football player ever but the greatest college lacrosse player in collegiate history. Also ran track and played basketball at Syracuse. No artificial surface back then. They played in the mud with no footing in the rain. The league was a geared toward the run game. Passing was very difficult. Receivers could half tackled on their routes. Closed lined going across the middle and blindsided on tackles,and offensive lineman couldn’t grab and hold like they do today. Every defense was geared to stop the run. The NFL ranked the 100 greatest players in history and No 1 was Jerry Rice. No.2 was Brown, what a joke.
The false argument that if he played today he wouldn’t be as great. Bullshit.with the training and conditioning they have today along with better nutrition, Brown would be be even greater. This was a freaking MAN!
He looks so big compared to those he played against
I have made this same argument for years 🏈🏈🏈
And finished fifth in the 1955 decathlon national championship.
And he was named the greatest athlete of the century
Yea how do you get Rice over Brown??
Two players stick out in my memory of the best I've ever seen. Head and shoulders above everyone in their era. Not even close. Jim Brown and Lawrence Taylor
So right James ty
LT was an incredible physical specimen, but dont forget that he was jacked up on coke DURING GAMES throughout his playing career. Might have had a bit to do with his energy and endurance...
@@WhizzingFish12 that’s true then that’s pretty incredible as well. I don’t know if you e ever done coke before. it only lasts in small bursts , so he’d have to use many times during the game. Which I don’t see how he could do that and not get caught . Also it’s extremely dangerous to play sports on coke because your heart is racing dangerously even if you’re sitting there not doing anything , so if you’re overly exerting yourself on coke and I mean for a WHoLE football game that’s absolutely crazy. I remember having a race with one of my friends when we were super bumped up and I Remember getting done the race (sprint). And my heart was going so fast I thought for sure that was it, I was going to die. I literally thought my heart would rupture or seize and I would die. Scared the shit out of me . Never touched the stuff again. And this was 20 years ago when I was 22 and in perfect shape.. Also I knew LT smoked crack when he was in the league , but using during games is a stretch. I doubt that’s true
God bless
Hard to argue with that. Earl Campbell was as fun to watch.
An incomparably powerful man who grew up in a world with no agency. It is unsurprising that he was a sometimes-violent man, or that he didn't believe in anything but the strength of individuals. If all of us were as powerful of character and body as Jim Brown, that would probably be true. For future generations he is the epitome of a man who did the best in turning an indefatigable spirit into incomparable achievement.
Just heard of Mr.Brown death R.I.P Legend 😢thank you for helping to change us all for the better
And at the end of each play, he got up and slowly walked back to the huddle. No celebrating, no trash-talking.
My favorite comment was about the draft. Paul Brown wanted a QB but all the ones he wanted were gone so he had to settle for the best running back at the 6th pick. In the draft, don't overthink your pick. Especially in the first round. Take the best player available and even more so if they are at a premium position which is what running backs were in 1957. In his 9th game he ran for 237 yards which was a record which stood for 14 years and a rookie record which held for 40 years. The next year (1958) he set the record for yards rushing in a season beating the previous record by nearly 400 yards. Which was about 32 yards more per game than the record. He led the league that year for touchdowns with 17 and the next highest player had 8.
I’m glad I was fortunate to see this man play football
RIP Jim.. You were the greatest to ever do it.
Goddammit Walter Paytin says hold my beer, here go HOLD IT !!!!
@@aarondigby5054 No. Payton, pound for pound wasn't the GOAT. Barry Sanders was better than Payton. OJ was better than both of them. OJ and Sanders played on losing teams just like Brown did. Payton (and Smith) played on stacked teams with great OLines. Brown, Simpson, and Sanders didn't. That's why they don't have Super Bowls. Hell, the Bears didn't even go to Payton for the key score to seal the deal. Jim Brown, OJ Simpson, and Barry Sanders are the Holy Trinity of Running Backs. It's that simple.
He was considered to be one of the greatest running backs of all time, as well as one of the greatest players in NFL history. He was a big guy who stood 6 foot 2 and 232 pound back who was the greatest professional football player ever when he retired from the NFL. He was not only an athlete, but he was an actor as well as a civil rights activist. R.I.P. Jim Brown!!!
First man, besides my father, that I ever loved. Heart broken when he retired. But I forgive him. Best so far. No serious challenger yet...
To me Jim brown had the greatest career of any running back.june2022.
It seems that professional athletes in the '50s and '60s --- and you can especially see this in tennis players and football players --- kept their bodies much looser than they do today. They kept the muscular tension out of their bodies, and therefore moved more fluidly when they performed on the field.
You can see this with Brown. His legs, hips, shoulders, and arms were loose and fluid when he ran. Contrast that with players today, who seem really tight and stiff. I suspect that this lack of tension helped helped them maintain a better mind-body connection. This helped Brown adapt intuitively and reflexively to evade opponents, and that it helped him maintain his balance better than today's players.
For me, this is such a great pleasure to watch for this reason
Home At Last, Would I be correct in thinking you are saying that weight lifting is not that good in some ways for running backs? Perhaps, all these injuries such as hamstring strains, knee injuries etc. are due to tightness from weight lifting. I say knee injuries because weight lifting puts a lot of strain on the joints.
@@captainwaring Quite honestly, I wouldn't be a very good judge as to WHY there appears to be more tension in their bodies. Are you saying that guys like Brown didn't lift weights? That they didn't really do weight training back then? I have no idea.
I was thinking about this purely from a psychological standpoint. It seems that society today is more driven to push us to drive to go balls-to-the-walls for any goal --- just the straight line from point A to point B. And this creates psychological tension that manifests in muscular tension.
But you could be right.
Also, I'm not really that into sports. I mean, I don't watch football very much anymore. But I played tennis and built up a decent club ranking (4.5 at my peak), and I have also been a runner/jogger my entire life. I went through a biking phase. And I figured out more so through my running and tennis that when I was able to keep my body relaxed --- to get rid of the muscular tension --- I got into the zone and played fare better. I could react better in-the-moment the way Brown seems to be doing.
My son (now 22) was a very good athlete, and I taught him this principle for his hitting in baseball. He used to tighten his shoulders and hike them up, and I taught him to keep his shoulders and hands totally loose, and his hips too, and it improved his hitting dramatically.
I noticed years ago that Tom Brady seemed totally loose. If you look at old footage of Brady his shoulders are totally dropped, and his arms hang and dangle like wet noodles.
If you look at Brown you can see his shoulders and hips are loose. Now that I look at these films again, I could be wrong, please correct me if I am, but it seems like Brown is keeping his core loose and fluid. It seems that today's players have these super-tight cores, and they use that to drive their legs like pistons. Whereas Brown's entire body is fluid, and it's like energy is flowing THROUGH him.
Sorry to go on, but it's an interesting topic for me. I'm a huge Elvis fan, and I sing too, and I even noticed that when Elvis performed he was constantly flexing his shoulders forward and down to stretch them and loosen them up. And if you watch him dance with Ann Margret in Viva Las Vegas (the "Come On Everybody" number), he is a better dancer than she is because she is all tight, and he is totally loose, his weight drops to his feet, and he remains centered and balanced and graceful, far more than she is, and she's a professional dancer.
@@HomeAtLast501 Hi Home At Last, I think you are absolutely right about the principles of training in sports and singing and dancing that you espouse. The Tom Brady method is based on pliability. Now, when it comes to dancing, I think Patrick Swazy said that he and his wife kept in shape through Pilates.
One of the Goats! RIp Jim!!!! Rest easy in that Hall of fame in the sky!!
Never been another like him.He totally dominated his era.Solid as granite,blazing speed,like a runaway bulldozer.Glad i got to see him play a lot!Never missed a game.Unstoppable!
There will never be another Barry sanders too?
I like Gayle sayers better but didn’t have the career like brown of course.
@@roy1583 I watched Sayers for five years,every week.Maybe the most spectacular running back ever,with Barry Sanders.What unbelievable moves.He scored six touchdowns in a game,in the mud!Injuries cut his career.But Brown was like a HUGE update to anyone who played before him.What a great athlete,and was never injured in a 10 year career.
I’m in my early 20’s and I love football this is my first time seeing jim brown highlights since I’ve heard so much about him…. WOW his tape is so relevant even till this days I see him doing things players can’t do today.. he’s definitely the most exciting player I’ve ever seen!
And he never missed a game which is rare for a running back also Barry sanders never missed a game
The highlights are definitely impressive but you have to consider the era he was playing in. Most defensive players had little to no form of technique to their game and relied on brute force.
RIP, coming from a Steelers fan, I have the utmost respect for you, Mr. Brown!
He was incomparable on the field ... a true NFL giant and powerhouse.
God bless
Came to pay my respects to number 32. Rest easy, Rest well and rest in peace Jim Brown
I have had a very unusual friendship with Jim for 30 years. We have never talked football and I have never been to a game or watched one! But...I feel such love for him as an independent thinker, a kind friend, a no nonsense activist, a great storyteller and a fighter for so many causes. I know him to be a good husband and father. He has been there for me in times of need. I look up to him with huge respect and affection.
Thank you for being a good friend to Jim Brown. Most of us know only of the legend. But you know the man.
It's hard to believe you could be around JB and not never talk football.
RIP Jim Brown 5/192023
RIP Jim Brown, you made fall Sundays in my childhood memorable. My Dad was a Browns fan and there was no other game on the tube but a Browns game. Look, 12 games in a season for his first 4 seasons and 14 for 5 more. Outdoors, on grass fields, and your home field was Cleveland Municipal Stadium. He gained 12,312, 106 TDs, and averaged over 100 yards per game. It must have been downright scary if you were a smallish linebacker, safety, or cornerback and he broke through the line and you had to take him on, 6'2"" and 232 pound with speed, ouch!!! If I'm the Browns and have the ball on my 35 and need a first down to protect a lead, and everyone in the world knows Brown will get the ball and they still can't stop him!!! Thank you Jim for making me a lifelong fan of yours and Pro football. Peace
The greatest ever. He did in 118 games what other back did in 150 games. The greatest ever
RIP to the greatest there ever was.
Jim Brown will always have a place in my heart and mind rest in peace ✌🏾
Brown is the GOAT
What's with this GOAT thing??
The greatest running back ever, in any era of the NFL! RIP Jim you will be remembered.
Jim Brown
OJ Simpson
Barry Sanders
The Holy Trinity of Running Backs. These three men, pound for pound, are the GOATS. And O.J. is THEE GOAT.
.... oj Simpson
Dude... put the pipe down.. thats ur number 2???
Wild
@@Aceshigh777 Acutally no....O.J.'s my number one. I just typed it wrong lol. That was a typo.
He was Derrick Henry, Walter Payton/Gayle Sayers, and Tyriq Hill in the same dude. I'm with YOU, ninja! lol OJ is the GOAT
Rest in peace to the goat
whenever I read epics of Greek heroes, I imagine them looking and moving like Jim Brown. Big, fast, strong and unstoppable. What a legend.
Football legend for sure.
RIP Jim Brown. Fantastic football player.
Him and Wilt in a class by themselves.
I've been browns fan all my life and have seen jb play. I didn't realize until this compilation what good blockers he had around him.
Entire defenses keyed on him, and he’d still run through them. The best ever.
Like running thru Swiss Chess.
It's probably because they were all so slow that he had time to plan ahead. ;)
Jim Brown would be good in any era but most of those 50’s and 60’s defenders would not make it to the NFL draft in the 80’s onward. By the 80’s you had to have the size and speed to even be looked at.
@@davidd34 Well, the Swiss have a lot going for them, but they've never been known for their prowess at board games.
@@vestibulate With literally having only 1/3 of my brain left due to a TBI from being hit by a Huge Truck in 15 and a brain stroke last June, your reference to "Swiss" totally baffles me. Sorry sir, I just don't get it.
Rest In Peace Mr. Brown🙏🙏🤎🤍🤎🤍
RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST RUNNING BACKS OF ALL TIME😢
One of? He WAS the greatest.
Saw about half of Jim Brown's games live on TV and the thing that sticks out in my mind is how almost all of his great plays happened with little or no warning as they unfolded. He simply made, it seems, a thousand great plays out of nowhere. For that reason I really don't think highlight videos do him full justice. He was one athlete that had to be seen live to fully appreciate his greatness. It also has to be understood that from the middle of his rookie season to his last game as a pro he was the main focus of every defense on virtually every play.
Brown was a power back who played without thigh pads and hip pads and yet in nine years missed one half of one game. This is one of the best highlight films I have seen of him.
Derek Henry is like a Jim brown clone not the other way around had the speed like Barry and the power of Henry makes the best rb ever
It's amazing to watch him shed blockers and continue to glide forward down the field. He was literally UNSTOPPABLE...
I Pray For The Cleveland Browns To Win A Superbowl This Year In Honor Of Jim Brown Rest In Peace
I almost can't believe what I'm seeing here!!!!!
RIP Jim Brown. Arguably not just the greatest RB in NFL history, but also the greatest player. Maybe the greatest lacrosse player ever to boot. Dick Schaap no longer voted for the Heisman after Paul Hornung beat out Jim Brown to win it. Said it was just blatantly a racial vote.
One of the most consequential athletes of all time. Stood with Ali, Bill Russell, Kareem and others during the civil rights struggles.
Thanks for all that info! What a life he lived
Yeah sure
Rip to a legend. I was too young to ever see him play but I got to know a part of him through his coverage on boxing. Rest well goat
The running back with the highest yards per carry to this day! He averaged 5.22 yards per carry.
That 5.22 yards per carry average over a nine year career is simply insane!
Stats prove it!!
Someone commented that Jim Brown was as large as the defenders on the field. All large running backs are not elite athletes. But Jim Brown is the cream of the crop. The true measure of a running back is what he does between the tackles.
@@kengordon7462 Do you know what high school & college he played at and was he always a running back?
It'd be nice to know his "back story."
I remember he was in some movies too. After that I don't know what happened?
Wow!! Really? Cool!!
RIP JIM BROWN!!!! Greatest RB of all time!!!
There hasn’t been any other football player that impacted the NFL more than James Nathaniel Brown. He was magnificent every Sunday.
I disagree. Tom Brady is the Greatest NFL player of All Time. And whoever is 2nd isn't even close.
@@HyperInflation2020 Thomas Edward Patrick Brady has taken full advantage of the NFL rules of not hitting the quarterback too aggressively. In another era, Brady would be pancaked on every play.
@@HyperInflation2020 Tom Brady is the most productive quarterback but Jim Brown is the greatest NFL player.
@@HyperInflation2020 it really should be based on position.
@@davidd34Where do you think Barry Sanders ranks, at that position?
Rest in peace mr Jim brown 😭🙏🏽
The GOAT! Period
He seems awesome. But let's be real and understand that he wouldn't score easily like that these days.
@@ADEEZY1926 Are you kidding me? With the shitty defenses today?...these clowns today don't know how to tackle...it's a lost art. They don't want to work at it! Today's football "players" want to have "FUN"! I don't think they'd have "fun" trying to tackle Jim Brown! These stiffs today are more worried about "dancing" in front of the camera than actual playing> When Brown played...(1957-1965)...you had real men playing football. With the rules today...it's more like "flag" football now! You don't see Jim Brown running out of bounds like they do today to avoid being tackled!!!
@@ADEEZY1926 He was basically Derrick Henry of his time, I genuinely believe he would be just as good today.
He couldn’t beat Lombardi’s Packers. Was 0-7 against them over his 9 year career. If you are the GOAT, you beat everybody.
@@frederickrapp5396 Butkus is the goat of middle linebackers. He played one side of the ball and never won a championship. Brown played one side of the ball and won a championship. Point is everyone will not win championships. Just my opinion.
He was tremendous for his time but he wouldn't have enjoyed the same success today with the size and strength of today's defensive players. He was a man amongst boys back then.
Rest in peace. What a legend
The best combination of speed, power and balance that you'll ever see at running back, one exception Walter Payton before 1970 merger it's JB, post merger it's Walter Payton. The best two rb ever imho.
Rest In Heavenly Peace Jim "Slaughter" Brown 🙏🏽✝️🏈🎥❤️🥺😞💐🕊️
The best that ever was. RIP Jim Brown
Man jim brown was a monster on that field. He would break tackle after tackle after tackle and keep going. I have never seen a RB break as many tackles as he has.
It would be nice to see the Cleveland Browns go to the super bowl before Jim Brown leaves this world
I’ve thought that too. Would be nice for the Browns to go to the Super Bowl before I leave this world, and I’m 20 years younger than Jim Brown.
Sadly that wont ever happen and we know that
Gratious thought, perhaps my dude Leroy Kelly will feel the same!
The Super Bowl wasn’t around yet while Jim Brown played but the Cleveland Browns did won 8 championship 4 in the aafl and 4 in the nfl before the super bowl started
@@Drew4Two I like to see some teams that's never been there I get tired of the same old teams going to the super bowl.
#'s 60, 64, 66 on the O-Line are killers, just look at some of those blocks, they're beautiful.
It certainly did hurt Jim's chances playing for Paul Brown.
@@stevefowler2112 it was then and was until the Millennium a RUNNING BACK league, no team in the NFL was going to win as a throwing team like today's game. Jim was great and he was gonna carry the rock no matter where he played - taking NOTHING away from Coach Brown, a genius in his own right.
@@bishlap I agree with everything you said there, but if you go back and actually look at the Browns offense during the Paul Brown Championship years, they had one of the most advanced passing games in NFL history. Even Don Shula said when Bill Walsh passed that he always thought less of Bill Walsh for "stealing"/using Paul Brown's offense and rebadging it the west coast offense without giving credit to Paul Brwon, which even today the concepts are widely used.
@@stevefowler2112Hey Steve, I agree, didn't mean to imply that PB's offense(s) was limited, NOT AT ALL, Paul Brown may have been the original coaching "genius" in the NFL.
What I do/did mean is, PB knew that he had championship LEGS w/ Jim Brown running the ball, and ride him he did.
Browns also had good/great QB's, I remember back to Frank Ryan ripping apart great defenses... anyway.
NFL RIP.
My dad was in high school in Syracuse when Jim Brown was there. He has a great story about how JB went out, played a lacrosse game and demolished the other team (U Virginia, I think), literally went under the grandstands and changed, and then played a football game where he demolished one of the service academies. Two sport all-American. I would love to have seen that.
This is my dads guy.
The goat.
Durability is easily the most underrated skillset. This dude is the GOAT at the game of football.
Jim brown is easily one of the best maybe even the best running-back to ever do it, in my opinion Walter payton, Barry, and brown are the best running-backs ever.
Being an old guy I've seen literally every back that's on anyone and everyone's "Top 10 All Time List". Jim Brown was best I had ever seen until I saw Barry Sanders. I would never argue with anyone who has Jim Brown at # 1 but Barry Sanders was on another planet.
Agreed; both have a strong case for being the GOAT running back. Both guys had such different styles that it's kinda hard to pick between the two.
@@dukewilson14 Barry Sanders own father said Brown is the GOAT
I would say brown at 5 😆
They are definitely joking
Rest in Peace Jim. Probably will be difficult, since legends never die and sleep is for the weak.
RIP Legend!
GOAT
I’m 4:37 in and I STILL haven’t seen a highlight where he hasn’t scored. That’s INSANE.
R.I.P # 32.
Jim is a legend that’s all there is to it. I absolutely love his movies especially the 60’s and 70’s ones.
I think HOF Bob Lilly summed it up perfectly. Paraphrasing. He got in the best football position he could and hit Jim Brown around the end zone. He got up bloody nose and helmet twisted but Jim was standing in the end zone.
Merlin Olsen said about the same thing. He said the hardest he ever hit a player in his career was a hit he put on Jim Brown. He said when he opened his eyes he expected Brown to be lying on his back with his eyes rolled up in his head. Brown just bounced off and went in for a TD.
Alex Karras told a story that in an all-star game, both he and Gino Marchetti hit Brown at the same time, thinking they hurt him and fully expecting him to go down, but Jim recovered his balance and went 60 or 70 yards for a TD. He told that story in one of Plimpton's books.
@@jamesanthony5681 You have to be the guys that played with or against him.
RIP Jim Brown 5/19/23
Jim Brown was not only the greatest running back of all time, or the greatest football player of all time, he was the finest athlete of all time. No one could match him. He had size, speed, strength and intelligence that was off the charts and was someone you could count on when he was needed most. There has been no one like him, and there will never be anyone like him.
Fr he was like Derrick Henry on roids x20
@@JosiahTheMinor I saw him play at Yankee Stadium several times and he was unstoppable. He could outrun you, run over you, had moves for a 6'2' 230 lb RB that he shouldn't have had. He was F'in smart also, and a champion in several other sports also. He was one the best American lacrosse players of all time. And he was his own man. When he was in England filming The Dirty Dozen, Paul Brown kept busting his balls to come to training camp threatened to fine him, so Jim said "I'm retiring" and that was that.
we do our best to be the toughest
Rest in peace Jim
RIP 2 A LEGEND !!! My condolences 2 his family 💯
Thank you man thank you i search Jim Brown highlights since since since a very long time. THANK YOU +1 SUSCRIBER. SORRY for my english i'm french
My dad always praised how this man could stay on his feet no matter what
RIP to NFL Legend Jim Brown,thabks for the football memories
Cameras back in his day were slowed, obviously, 1.25 is the closest to real time speed guys.
RIP Jim Brown -- The Goat
Saw him play when I was young in Pittsburgh. I've watched this a few times the last time I watched all the defensive players in this video and what I see is some seriously bad tackling compared to the pros of today. That is not saying Jim Brown wasn't great, he was.
The great ones make you look bad.
@@docsmithdc tackling was way bad back in the day bro, Jim brown was a beast, but tackling is way more complex now
@@chodysseus420 I disagree.I saw the "old NFL".
Wrong, it's the tackling of today which is inferior. Most players today tackle high which is not the most efficient way to bring down a ball carrier, especially a good one.
@@nobodyaskedbut Thank you.
I never get tired of watching this. G.O.A.T!
Nah it is Barry sanders
He's the greatest athlete in American history. He was a great lacrosse athlete, too. He's the all time best running back. Give props to the BROWNS offensive line and offensive coaching. Geez...237 yards in a game?
The guy gained over 1,000 yards in every season when the NFL only played a 10 game season. Now guys act like gaining 1000 yards in 17 game season is a big deal.
Also led Syracuse basketball in scoring
@@georgesouthwick7000 It was a 12 game season until 1961 when it went to 14 games, no? I get your point. however.
@@georgesouthwick7000 Amen.
@@larrycasper4381 What? What season did he do it?
He was also an All American LaCrosse player at Syracuse. Someone who played against him was quoted as saying, "Imagine Jim Brown running full-tilt right at you carrying a football. Now imagine Jim Brown running at you full-tilt carrying a big stick!"
Damn how sad rest peacefully Jim Brown u were one of the best if not the best running backs in NFL history 🙏🏽🕊️
Wow a truly gifted ball runner who could really pick a line and keep his feet in traffic
I am old enough to have seen him play in his prime...in my opinion the three best running backs in NFL history were 1.) Jim Brown, 2.) Gayle Sayers and 3.) Earl Campbell
Yeah all 3 guys had more to give physically, but Sayers and Campbell got injured and Brown moved on early.
Walter Payton
Exactly.
Agree with JB and Earl Campbell for sure
@@jjm4643 curious, do you know who the all time leader is in the position now? My Dumbphone can't access that info. It didn't even make it thru Chinese kindergarten unfortunately.