Despite only a nine-year NFL career that featured fewer games per season than he does today, Jim Brown still holds numerous NFL records, making him arguably the greatest American football player of all time. . The 1964 NFL championship winner, who earned Pro Bowl selections every season and was named MVP three times, played his entire career for the Cleveland Browns.
Who is Jim Brown? – Biography
Jim Brown was born James Nathaniel Brown to Swinton and Theresa Brown on February 17, 1936 in St. Simons Island, Georgia. Her father, Swinton, was a professional boxer, while her mother, Theresa, was a housewife, but she later moved to New York to work as a housekeeper, leaving her child to be raised by her grandmother.
Brown eventually moved to New York to stay with his mother and attended Manhasset High School where his father’s athletic genes were on display as he starred on the football team, lacrosse, baseball, basketball and track Manhasset. After graduating from high school with 13 sports letters, Brown accepted a scholarship to attend Syracuse University in 1953.
At Syracuse, Jim Brown continued to play multiple sports instead of focusing on one. In football, he set the school record for the fastest rushing touchdowns in a single game, 6, as well as the highest peak season average, 6.2. He went on to earn consensus first-team All-American honors and finished fifth in the Heisman Trophy in senior voting. As a member of the lacrosse team, he earned second-team All-American honors in his junior year and first-team All-American honors in his senior year. In basketball, Brown was his team’s second-highest scorer in his sophomore year, as he also received a letter that year for competing on the track team.
After four years at Syracuse, Jim Brown was drafted by the Cleveland Browns with the sixth overall pick in the 1957 NFL Draft. During his rookie season, Brown set an NFL single-game record for the rushes in a game where he recorded 237 yards against the Los Angeles Rams. This record stood for 14 years before being broken, and a total of 40 years before being managed by another rookie. He then finished his rookie season as a runner-up for the NFL Championship as he was also named the NFL Rookie of the Year.
After that season, Brown continued to break and set numerous NFL and franchise records, but it would take another seven years before he could play in an NFL championship game again. In 1964, the second time he asked, Jim Brown won his only NFL championship. The following year he returned to the championship game but only managed to place second. He retired from the NFL after that game to pursue a career as an actor and then a sports analyst.
Jim Brown’s Family – wife, children
Jim Brown is currently on his second marriage. His first marriage was to Sue Brown (née Jones) in 1959. Little is known about how the couple met, but their marriage was marred by numerous extramarital affairs and domestic abuse by Brown who was at the top of his game at the time.. Notable affairs include his relationship with 18-year-old Brenda Ayres in 1965 and model Eva Bohn-Chin in 1968. Sue and Jim completed divorce proceedings in 1972.
Brown returned to the dating pool and stayed there for almost three decades before choosing to settle down again at age 60 with Monique Brown (née Gunthrop), herself in her twenties. They married in 1997 and have been together ever since, despite further allegations of fraud and abuse by Brown. Two years after the exchange of vows, Brown served a six-month prison sentence after refusing to attend a court-ordered counseling session and community service following accusations by Monique that he gave her a black eye and allegedly threatened to break his neck while breaking it. her car with a shovel because she confronted him for cheating.
Jim Brown is believed to be around seven children, although some reports say the actual figure could be more than that. Brown had three children from his first marriage; twins Kim and Kevin, then James Jr. With his current wife, he had two; Aris and Morgan. The other children came from other relationships, although he denied paternity to some of the children. They are Kimberly, her relationship with Kim Jones, Shellee, her relationship with Brenda Ayres, and Karen Brown Ward, whose mother’s name has not been withheld.
Not much is known about most of his other children, but Brown’s youngest son Aris seems to have inherited his father’s athletic abilities. He is said to be a very talented lacrosse player, a game in which his father is also a Hall of Famer.
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