“I want to thank Jimmy Haslam and Joe Banner for giving me this chance to return to the organization and the great city of Cleveland, whose fans are the best in the NFL and who always have supported me. I look forward to getting started and once again make difference, not just with the franchise but in the Northeast Ohio community.”
This statement bothers me on multiple levels. So let’s just start from the top:
“I want to thank Jimmy Haslam and Joe Banner for giving me this chance to return to the organization and the great city of Cleveland” – Jimmy Haslam and Joe Banner offered Jim the same job that he turned down from Mike Holmgren. For him to act like Mike ran him out of the office is ridiculous. Mike told Jim to zip his lip and do his job and that wasn’t an option for Jim. Jim Brown (Al Sharpton Jr) uses the Browns organization as a stage to spew his hypocritical messages with a large microphone. So of course he is happy to be back with the team without a muzzle on.
“Whose fans are the best in the NFL and who always have supported me” – Yes, I agree with this 100% but I’m not sure why he gets the support he gets. Respect for arguably being one of the best to play the game makes sense but not support. Why do we support a guy with a longer rap sheet than Lindsay Lohan? And why do we let him mentor our young impressionable players? We are talking about the guy who quit on us in 1965 to be an actor and then couldn’t even show up for the induction ceremony for the ring of honor. Yeah, you really care about these fans Jim.
1965, Brown accused of beating and sexually molesting two teen-age girls.
1968, Jim was accused of throwing his girlfriend off a second-story balcony.
He managed to escape charges that alleged he assaulted another man following a traffic accident.
1978, he was jailed for a day and fined $500 for beating up a pro at a Los Angeles golf course in an argument over the placement of a golf ball.
1985, Brown was arrested together with a woman companion on suspicion of rape and sexual battery on a 33-year-old woman at Brown's Hollywood Hills home.
1987, Brown was arrested for spousal battery.
1999, Brown was convicted of smashing the window of his wife's car, after refusing to attend counseling.
1999, Jim Brown was arrested in Los Angeles for allegedly making "terrorist threats" against his wife.
Brown served a six-month jail sentence in 2002.
“I look forward to getting started and once again make difference, not just with the franchise but in the Northeast Ohio community” – Right! What he really looks forward to is collecting a paycheck because of his name and bashing other pro athletes for not being “social activists” and good role models for young black athletes i.e. Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Magic Johnson. Because yes, beating women and having anger issues like Jim are perfectly acceptable traits for being a role model.
It is sad to say but I hate that Jim Brown is involved with the Cleveland Browns organization. He is a loud mouth hypocrite with an agenda and none of it has anything to do with football. The attention he brings to himself is distracting and has no place in a football organization. Jimmy Haslam, this is your first mistake with the Browns, let’s hope it’s the last.
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