{"id":639,"date":"2023-05-27T04:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T04:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:26:30","slug":"how-good-was-jim-brown-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How Good Was Jim Brown Actually?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202b75181ab79200b-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jim brown\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e202b75181ab79200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202b75181ab79200b-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Jim brown\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Brown\">Jim Brown<\/a> died on May 18th at the age of 87. Mutli-sport amazing &#8211; phenomenal all round athlete &#8211; and certainly the greatest NFL running back &#8211; who went on to have an interesting life. He and NY Giant linebacker<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sam_Huff\"> Sam Huff<\/a> had some great duels. I remember how shocked people were when he retired from football at the age of 30.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z05uHuQPQdg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Brown died on May 18th at the age of 87. Mutli-sport amazing &#8211; phenomenal all round athlete &#8211; and certainly the greatest NFL running back &#8211; who went on to have an interesting life. He and NY Giant linebacker Sam Huff had some great duels. I remember how shocked people were when he retired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4981,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/4981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}