{"id":141545,"date":"2023-05-19T16:57:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T20:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=141545"},"modified":"2023-05-19T16:57:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T20:57:28","slug":"jim-brown-nfl-legend-and-army-vet-dies-at-age-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=141545","title":{"rendered":"Jim Brown, NFL legend and Army vet, dies at age 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_141546\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141546\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-141546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Jim_Brown_at_LBJ_Foundation_2014_cropped-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Jim_Brown_at_LBJ_Foundation_2014_cropped-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Jim_Brown_at_LBJ_Foundation_2014_cropped-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Jim_Brown_at_LBJ_Foundation_2014_cropped-768x1022.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Jim_Brown_at_LBJ_Foundation_2014_cropped.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Brown in 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Probably the most famous Cleveland Brown of all time, Jim Brown, passed away yesterday. For nine seasons, from 1957 to 1965, Brown was one of the best players in the NFL. A member of both the College Football and Pro Football Halls of Fame, he was sent to the Pro Bowl every year he played. He got one Super Bowl ring (1964), was a 3x NFL Most Valuable Player (&#8217;57, &#8217;58, and &#8217;65), was NFL Rookie of the Year (&#8217;57), led the league in rushing yards for eight of his nine years, and was the league leader for rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his retiring from pro football he held several records. He then went in to acting. His most memorable role for me is as one of the convicts in The Dirty Dozen that Lee Marvin&#8217;s character whips into a special operations unit. He appeared in many films and TV series over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Before all this, Brown, as most men of his generation were required to at college, participated in the US Army ROTC program at Syracuse. He was commissioned a second lieutenant and served four years in the Army Reserve, while playing in the NFL. He received an honorable discharge as a captain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably the most famous Cleveland Brown of all time, Jim Brown, passed away yesterday. For nine &hellip; <a title=\"Jim Brown, NFL legend and Army vet, dies at age 87\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=141545\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jim Brown, NFL legend and Army vet, dies at age 87<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,10,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-historical","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}