RIP Jim Brown

[crusader_of_90]

Arguably the best to have ever done it.

 

[MS4EVER]

RIP GOAT

 

[EdgyTim]

My Dad loved watching Jim Brown run with the football.....

 

[johnndoe]

I wonder where his skill set and body type (6-2, 230) would fit in the present-day game, including which side of the ball. I searched, without much luck, for a verifiable 40 time, but you know how that goes from back then.

 

[Chili41]

Brown was leading scorer in track, basketball and lacrosse at Syracuse He ran a 9.9 or 10.1 100yds. Not sure they did 40’s back then. He scored over 50 pts. in a high school game

 

[Chili41]

He ran a 4.5 with shoulder pads and in a 3 pt stance, while playing for the Browns. Shot 77 his fifth time playing golf, averaged 38 pts a game in high school basketball, and threw no - hitters in H.S. Incredible

 

[crusader_of_90]

LAX HOF as well.

 

[LTHSALUM76]

I have always said you really can't compare athletes from different eras. Things in the NFL were totally different 60 years ago than they are now. I have had this conversation several times over the years that involve all sports.

If you were to just pluck guys like Jim Brown and Dick Butkus from the 60s and bring them to the present time NFL, neither would be as dominant now as they were then. Today's players are bigger, faster and stronger. You have more guys in the league now who could outrun both of those guys.

Since we are talking theory, I feel the only way a comparison could be made is to have both athletes born around 1995-97 which would put them age-wise at or near their prime in today's game. This way they could grow up in today's world with today's nutrition, medicine, conditioning and of course the added HGH, Steroids and other forms of PEDs.

I think this is the only way you could achieve an accurate comparison. In other words, it can't be done with any real objectivity.