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Speaker 1: Coming to you live from the Cross Country Mortgage Campus

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Speaker 1: in Barria, Ohio. This is Cleveland Browns Daily, brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Bally Beck coming soon to Ohio on eight

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Speaker 1: fifty ESPN Cleveland. Here are your hosts, Bo Bishop and

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Speaker 1: Nathan Zegura.

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome into this special edition of Cleveland Brown's Daily.

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Speaker 2: Of course, the Hall of Fame game tonight and kicking

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Speaker 2: off what will be a very special weekend for Joe

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Speaker 2: Thomas and the organization down in Canton today, and what

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Speaker 2: is something absolutely special and we're very proud to be

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Speaker 2: able to bring to you. We will broadcast Jim Brown

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Speaker 2: a celebration of life. We will have that for you

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Speaker 2: in its entirety. It will go for the better part

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Speaker 2: today on the celebration of life, Mike Terrico will be

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Speaker 2: You'll hear from various members of Jim's life who impacted

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Speaker 2: him a great deal and whose impact he had on

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Speaker 2: them was tremendous. Bob Aram among those, the famous boxing

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Speaker 2: promoter was down there already getting some of the luminaries

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Speaker 2: that are in play down there. Bernie and many former

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Speaker 2: Browns greats in attendance at this as they celebrate one

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Speaker 2: of the greatest, if not the greatest football player in

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Speaker 2: the history of the sport. Ray Lewis will be among

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Speaker 2: the featured speakers down in Canton as well.

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Speaker 2: Videos that we play that will be played down at

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Speaker 2: the event, and we will have all of that in

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Speaker 2: Turrico will be your MC for this event. Jim Brown's

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Speaker 2: passing earlier this year an absolute tragedy and from the

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Speaker 2: standpoint of what the man meant, the life lived, and

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Speaker 2: the character, and you think about the impact that one

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Speaker 2: so I think what you're going to get over the

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Speaker 2: Mike Tarico will be seeing this event and this will

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Speaker 2: begin any moment down in Canton. Once this concludes, Zee

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Speaker 2: and I will do the traditional Cleveland Browns daily. We

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Speaker 2: So of course we have a game tonight, We have

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Speaker 2: It's a beautiful facility. Been down there many many times.

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Speaker 2: the celebration of life will come first. We are kind

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Speaker 2: You will have, of course, this celebration of life of

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Speaker 2: Brown's Daily. All right, so here's where we stand. We're

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Speaker 6: Before he turned thirty to become a new kind of pioneer,

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Speaker 8: What a man, what a legacy. Good afternoon everyone. My

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Speaker 8: I grew up in Queens, New York, and you heard

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Speaker 8: He averaged fifteen yards of carry in high school, But

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Speaker 8: that wasn't his best accomplishment in sports. As a basketball player,

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Speaker 8: But that's not the connection that I really feel with

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Speaker 8: Jim Brown was the second black player to play sports

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Speaker 8: Did you know that Jim Brown not only led the

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Speaker 4: In so many ways. Born February seventeenth.

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Speaker 8: You know Michael Jordan was born February seventeenth, twenty seven

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Speaker 4: And it's just that picture.

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Speaker 8: When you close your mind and think about football of

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Speaker 8: to be very honest, Jim Brown was one of a kind,

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Speaker 4: It's a book with a lot of pages.

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Speaker 8: That why we're going to break this up into chapters,

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Speaker 8: let's begin with the video to share from nineteen fifty

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Speaker 6: Now the game is in the hands of the man.

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Speaker 10: Men like Jim Brown, the greatest running back of all time.

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Speaker 11: He was bigger and faster and stronger than everybody on

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Speaker 6: Considered by most experts, is the greatest pullback ever to

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Speaker 9: Jimmy tireder to bring down on a wild steer.

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Speaker 12: Has enormously gifted as he was as a physical ancident.

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Speaker 4: Mental approach to the game was.

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Speaker 10: Understood blocking schemes, understood running styles, understood the whole game.

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Speaker 13: You talk about Boa, Jackson, Walks, Avn, Eric Dickison, Toney

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Speaker 14: Obviously the greatest player could have played in any era,

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Speaker 15: Really could have played tight end, running back, defense, and

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Speaker 7: Jim add at all.

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Speaker 8: For more on his great football career, along with his

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Speaker 16: Mister Jim, thanks Mike, and thanks for taking time out

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Speaker 15: Jim Brown played nine years in the NFL. Eight of

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Speaker 15: He scored one hundred and twenty six touchdowns. That's one

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Speaker 15: And in nineteen sixty four he'd led the Cleveland Browns

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Speaker 15: Unquestionably the greatest Cleveland Brown ever and we had the

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Speaker 15: But Jim was more than a football player. If you

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Speaker 15: And when we bought the Browns, Jim was not associated

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Speaker 15: But we had a long dinner one night in Cleveland

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Speaker 15: And after about an hour you realize that this was

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Speaker 15: First of all, he loved football, he loved the NFL,

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Speaker 15: it carried the entire time we were with him, is

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Speaker 15: that he had a rare blend of all superstar athletes,

442
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,399
Speaker 15: and there's a bunch of them in the crowd today

443
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,280
Speaker 15: have this special confidence. So Thomas I saw it time

444
00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,480
Speaker 15: and time again that at the right moment they were

445
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,439
Speaker 15: going to make a big shot, a big block, a

446
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 15: big tackle, throw a great pass, catchupback past, etc.

447
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 9: You have to have that. It's not arrogance, but it's supreme.

448
00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 15: Confidence that I can do this, I can beat the.

449
00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,159
Speaker 9: Individual across from me. And Jim definitely had that.

450
00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,199
Speaker 15: Okay, And I remember one time and he carried it

451
00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 15: his entire life. I remember two or three years ago

452
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,040
Speaker 15: as he was starting to slow down physically love golf,

453
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,160
Speaker 15: and I said, Jim, I said, you still play golf,

454
00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:58,840
Speaker 15: And he shook his head and he said, I can't

455
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,800
Speaker 15: get the damn ball out of my shoe shadow.

456
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,159
Speaker 9: And he was just kind of going like this. Then

457
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:04,600
Speaker 9: he had that little gleam in his eye.

458
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,160
Speaker 15: If you know Jim, he would get and he leaned

459
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 15: into me. He says, but if it's one hundred and

460
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 15: fifty dollars, Nasaw and it's on eighteen and you need

461
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 15: a ten foot put.

462
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 17: Call me.

463
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:14,879
Speaker 9: And that's just that was Jim.

464
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 15: And I also saw the humility. Jim worked with us

465
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 15: for eleven years. I think he never once called and

466
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,679
Speaker 15: said you should do that, you should do this, you

467
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,640
Speaker 15: made a mistake here. He never ever did that. All

468
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,680
Speaker 15: he would do is call and say can I help you?

469
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:33,440
Speaker 15: What can I do to help? When we had a player,

470
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 15: particularly player who maybe off the field, was struggling, he

471
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,159
Speaker 15: would call and say, hey, can I Can I have

472
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 15: dinner with him? Can I have lunch with him? How

473
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,720
Speaker 15: can I spend time with him? How can I help him?

474
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 15: And he had that kind of humility that is rare

475
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,160
Speaker 15: that you see with people with supreme confidence. So he's

476
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 15: a rare blend of that. And I remember the first

477
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,320
Speaker 15: night we were talking and we really didn't talk about

478
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 15: football any and I said, Jim, when did you retire

479
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:59,200
Speaker 15: from acting? Now I've known him for maybe forty five minutes.

480
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 15: He started laughing and he says, Jim, you don't really

481
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 15: retire from acting. They just quit calling you and just laughed.

482
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,879
Speaker 15: And he thought that was hilarious. But he was a

483
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 15: guy that could also laugh at himself.

484
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 9: Okay.

485
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 15: And then finally, what I would say is Jim had

486
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 15: a supreme ability to.

487
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 9: Bring people together.

488
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,439
Speaker 15: And if you think about and I'm sure he and

489
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 15: Monique talked about this before he passed, think about the

490
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 15: people he's invited to speak today.

491
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 9: Okay.

492
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 15: One of the great players of all time, Ray Lewis,

493
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,480
Speaker 15: who Jim respected a lot, not just as a great player,

494
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 15: but as a great person. And Ray I'm sure he

495
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,119
Speaker 15: told you this, But I used to say, Jim, who's

496
00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 15: going to like take your role when you're not here?

497
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 9: And he goes ray Lewis without hesitating thought the world

498
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 9: of Ray Lewis Bob Aram.

499
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Speaker 15: For those of us who grew up in the Ali

500
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 15: Fraser era, I went to all three fights with my

501
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,159
Speaker 15: dad at the Knoxville Coliseum close circuit, and he understood

502
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 15: entertainment and sports and how those coexist way before.

503
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 9: Anybody else did.

504
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 15: And at ninety one, soon to be ninety two years old,

505
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 15: he's still promoting fights, promoting one in Riodd Saudi Arabia

506
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 15: with Tyson Fury in October. Still tremendous energy. But another

507
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 15: great friends of Jim's Rock Johnson. Most of you probably

508
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 15: don't know that name. Rock was in jail for nineteen years.

509
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,159
Speaker 15: To put in perspective, when he got out, he was

510
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 15: thirty three, So y'all can do the math. He said,

511
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 15: I was headed right back to jail, and somehow Jim

512
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,879
Speaker 15: Brown called me over to his house. I won't describe

513
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,439
Speaker 15: this the conversation like Rock described it to me, but

514
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,400
Speaker 15: it was a pretty heated conversation.

515
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 9: He's single handedly turned around Rock's life.

516
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,439
Speaker 15: Rock now works with people who have either been in

517
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,719
Speaker 15: prison or are in danger of going to prison. And

518
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 15: he actually ran Jim's organization American for many many years.

519
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,359
Speaker 15: People don't know that kind of thing about him. Okay,

520
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 15: John Wootin his lifelong friend Blocking made as a guard,

521
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 15: probably best friend he had, I'm guessing, unbelievable person, cares

522
00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:00,520
Speaker 15: deeply about Cleveland, but also cares about people and players,

523
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 15: and then of course his lifelong love Monique. So just

524
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,160
Speaker 15: a unique group of people that probably only Jim Brown

525
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 15: could put together. And I would say this in closing

526
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 15: that as good as football player as he was, and

527
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 15: he was obviously unbelievable. What he did after his career,

528
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,919
Speaker 15: I think transcended that and far surpassed his great career.

529
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,640
Speaker 15: And Jim had an unbelievable gift of bringing people together.

530
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,160
Speaker 15: Dee has in her office in Bria where we practice

531
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,919
Speaker 15: and work, a picture of the Cleveland Summit, and there

532
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 15: were about ten individuals.

533
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,640
Speaker 9: In there, and I can't remember them all.

534
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 15: Some of them wouldn't know, but it was Muhammad Ali,

535
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 15: it was Bill Russell, it was Kareem Abdul Dubar, it

536
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 15: was Jim Brown. And he bought them together during a

537
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 15: period of great civil unrest.

538
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 9: Not to a bunch of halliblue.

539
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 15: There wasn't a bunch of stuff going back and forth,

540
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 15: but hey, how can we get this country to work

541
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,680
Speaker 15: better together? How do we get whites and blacks to

542
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 15: focus better together?

543
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 9: That's the kind of guy Jim Brown was.

544
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 15: And the country is much better, of course to have

545
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,679
Speaker 15: Jim Brown as a football player. But more importantly, the

546
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 15: man so Monique, thank you very much. We all miss

547
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 15: him dearly.

548
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 9: Thank you.

549
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 18: I don't think that there could be anything any more

550
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 18: important than to keep young people from killing each other.

551
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 4: We're not going to change this.

552
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 18: World through guns and soldiers and violence, and will.

553
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,120
Speaker 4: Be through love and understanding. And the first person you've

554
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 4: got to love is yourself.

555
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 19: He really wanted to affect change in the streets and

556
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 19: he knew he had to get guys out of their

557
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 19: environment to open.

558
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 20: Up, and he spent his life working to raise young

559
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:47,919
Speaker 20: people up.

560
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:49,919
Speaker 4: Ms Brown opened us home totally to us.

561
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 7: We were talking about how could we stop to kill

562
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 7: it without him?

563
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 4: I know for a fact I'll be back in jail,

564
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 4: are dead.

565
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 18: Most of the things that you do that are really good,

566
00:27:58,280 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 18: people never get a chance to know that.

567
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 4: And if you're sincere, you don't care.

568
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 8: Here and now to share more on being better, the

569
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 8: self approve improvement and American which is one of the

570
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,679
Speaker 8: foundational things that Jim Brown brought to our country and

571
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 8: has helped so many. A guy who went from the

572
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 8: streets to success. Please welcome Rudolph Rock Johnson.

573
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 19: How y'all doing today? My man said a lot of

574
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 19: things about a man I consider and look at.

575
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 4: As a father.

576
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 19: I don't know my biological father, so knowing Jim and

577
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 19: dealing with Jim for over thirty one years, he is

578
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 19: the reason why I'm free today and while I'm alive,

579
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 19: because without him, I.

580
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 4: Will be dead or in jail for the rest of

581
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 4: my life.

582
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 19: And when I say this to y'all, I went to

583
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 19: jail they eleven years old. They gave me life and

584
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 19: youth authority what they keep you until you twenty six.

585
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 19: I got kicked out of youth authority at sixteen and

586
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 19: went to state prison at sixteen, where I had to

587
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 19: really grow up to be a man, because.

588
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 4: I'm among men.

589
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 19: They talk about the time I was twenty three, I

590
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 19: ran all thirteen prisons from one cell.

591
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 4: I was that guy. I was that predator.

592
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 19: I was that man that when Jim said if he

593
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 19: could change the mindset of individuals of predators from a

594
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 19: negative to a positive and put them right back in

595
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,239
Speaker 19: their community in a positive way, they would be just

596
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 19: as effective in a positive way as they were in

597
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 19: a negative way.

598
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 4: I'm here in a positive.

599
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 19: Way without that man.

600
00:29:58,880 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 4: Listen to me.

601
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 19: Jim Brown was a man, and we first met. He

602
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 19: asked me was our b I t or was our man?

603
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 19: And I'm like, who are you and where are you?

604
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 19: And he gave me his address and I drove up

605
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 19: there with my three fifty seven magnum. When I knocked

606
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 19: on his door, he said it again, are you a

607
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 19: b I t are you a man?

608
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 4: Just what men do? Man uses this?

609
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 19: And he turned his back on me and I kind

610
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 19: of stump stump behind him like a little baby, mad

611
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 19: and angry. And I sat on his sofa to have

612
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 19: my gun on me and I looked at him.

613
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 4: People don't talk to me like that.

614
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 19: He like for real, and I never left his side

615
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 19: for twenty four hours. We talked about who he was

616
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 19: and who he is. I knew nothing about this man

617
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 19: until I met him. He created a program called a

618
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 19: mari Can Foundation for Social Change that teach you the

619
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 19: responsibility or self determination.

620
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 4: Without that program, I would be an animal.

621
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 19: But with that program, it taught me that I am

622
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 19: not cursed at birth, that I am somebody. And once

623
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 19: I understood stood that and start practicing and believing in

624
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 19: his journey, it allowed me to be the man I

625
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 19: am today. I'm a father to my seven kids, six daughters,

626
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 19: one son. I'm a catalyst to many youngsters across this world.

627
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 19: I opened up a mayor health jump around open Up

628
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 19: American at twenty nine states, including Cleveland with Box and

629
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 19: his family. I've been around a long time. I'm sixty

630
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 19: years old. I know I don't look it.

631
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 4: You know, I look kind of you know I'm saying,

632
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 4: you know, but I've been around a long time.

633
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 19: I got shot eleven times in nineteen eighty nineteen ninety eight,

634
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 19: my daughter at fifteen, got her head blown off.

635
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 4: She was born on Thanksgiving. She got killed on my birthday.

636
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 19: When I got home, I had a lot of guys there,

637
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 19: and Jim came knocking.

638
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 4: On my door.

639
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 19: And my guy said, we're not trying to hear what

640
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 19: that old dude talking about rock Head.

641
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 4: We gotta get revenge. We're not trying to hear it.

642
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,719
Speaker 19: And I said, I owe him a conversation because up

643
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 19: until THEND he gave me life.

644
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 4: He was my life. And Jim looked me in my

645
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 4: eyes and said, rock Head. And we crossed that line.

646
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 19: There's no turning back, sad what you mean we, Jim,

647
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 19: this is my problem, this is my issue.

648
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 4: That was my daughter. He said, what about your other daughter?

649
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 4: He said, what.

650
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 19: About all the young men that follows you and that

651
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 19: listens to you today. And for the first time in

652
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 19: my life, I fought my fit, my bad negative feelings

653
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 19: and I went against my own neighborhood and I started

654
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 19: crying in front of a man other man, and I've

655
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 19: never done that before in my life. That's how much

656
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 19: he meant to me. And I turned my other cheek

657
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 19: and I didn't seek revenge for my daughter's death. Eventually,

658
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 19: the dude got caught up and went to jail. But

659
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 19: because of him and what he stood for and what

660
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 19: he helped me understand about myself, it allowed me to

661
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 19: be a man today. That I was a responsible father,

662
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 19: that's a hard working citizen in our society.

663
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 4: But Jim Brown was every bit of a man.

664
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Speaker 19: If you knew anything about him other than sports, look

665
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 19: beyond that that he was a man of men, and

666
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 19: he transcend racial religion.

667
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 4: And social economic status.

668
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 19: It was about human beings, and as human beings, we

669
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 19: are allowed to make mistakes at human beings we are

670
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 19: is how we pick ourselves up and become the person

671
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 19: we are today.

672
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 4: I loved you, big fella.

673
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,719
Speaker 19: I appreciate y'all here honoring and celebrating his life, and

674
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 19: I hope everybody continued to celebrate his life because I

675
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 19: missed him. I saw him three weeks before he passed.

676
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 19: When I saw him kissed him on his forehead and

677
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 19: I looked a monique. I said, big feel is something else.

678
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 19: He's the only father I know. He the only father

679
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 19: I will always know.

680
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 4: Thank you.

681
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 18: And my inner self. My strength was unbending. I was

682
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 18: never going to let anybody make me feel that I

683
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,240
Speaker 18: was my top shelf.

684
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:39,280
Speaker 21: Jim Brown demanded his dignity. He wanted the same respect

685
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,760
Speaker 21: off the field that he got on the field.

686
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 22: Jim always fought back, and we're better as a nation

687
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 22: and as people because because he fought back.

688
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,919
Speaker 23: Boy, you'd hear him say it over and over and over,

689
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,319
Speaker 23: this is our play, this is what we wanted. You know,

690
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 23: we called for it. Let's go get it, you know

691
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 23: that kind of thing. And always but always pushing.

692
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 21: Jim Brown was a great man who just also happened

693
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 21: to play a great game of football.

694
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 8: I don't know if you remember watching the Hall of

695
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 8: Fame game and the late great John Madden said, you

696
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 8: know when the lights go out inside the hall and

697
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 8: I those bus talk to each other. Right, Well, if

698
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 8: you've walked through the hall, and if you haven't, you

699
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 8: better you're reminded of the true greatness. And what if

700
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 8: we could have seen a day when one of these

701
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 8: great legends, played against one of these great legends.

702
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 4: As a Hall of.

703
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,919
Speaker 8: Famer to be in the Class of twenty twenty three,

704
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 8: Chuck Halley and I thought it was appropriate tonight today

705
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 8: I should say to share this quote that Chuck had

706
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 8: about Jim Brown, who was in Jim's obituary in the

707
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 8: New York Times. Chuck halle said about Jim Brown quote,

708
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 8: I had one of my best days. I made almost

709
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 8: as much yardage as he did, riding on his back.

710
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 8: The best of the best try to bring down Jim

711
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 8: Brown and oftentimes failed. But could you imagine if you

712
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 8: closed your eyes and we could see Jim Brown try

713
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 8: to get tackled by a two time Super Bowl champ,

714
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 8: a Super Bowl MVP, a first ballot Hall of Famer,

715
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 8: who had a seventeen year career and had a very

716
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 8: similar impact and path as Jim Brown. Ladies and gentlemen,

717
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 8: Pro Football Hall of Famer ray.

718
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 3: Lewis, Wow, Wow, incredible, Monique, I love you. It's an

719
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 3: entire Brown family. My goodness, the days that we've had.

720
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 24: To whom much is given, much is required, many are called,

721
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:58,240
Speaker 24: few were chosen.

722
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 3: I'm talking about meeting the complete man, not the perfect man,

723
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 3: but the complete man. Twenty three years ago, two thousand,

724
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 3: my son was five years old. If I had a

725
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:30,399
Speaker 3: choice today, if I had a wish, I would ask

726
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 3: God to give me one more conversation with my son

727
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 3: and Jim. So this is my conversation. When Jim walked

728
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 3: up to me at the super Bowl in Tampa and

729
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 3: they said Jim Brown is here, and Spike Lee is here,

730
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 3: and Hank Aaron is here.

731
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 4: And I was like, wow, who they here? What they

732
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 4: here to see us?

733
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,040
Speaker 3: And Jim Brown walked up to me and anybody I

734
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 3: didn't know Jim. Jim is engaging, like he comes into you,

735
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 3: he wants you to feel him. And Jim looked at

736
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 3: me and he said, man, you didn't want none of this.

737
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 4: Great. I mean, it's so awesome to meet you, Jim.

738
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean you're running through walls and stuff,

739
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 3: you know.

740
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 4: Like just getting my career started.

741
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 3: But something that I found out very quickly about perseverance

742
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 3: through the things that they had to go through back then,

743
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 3: that a black man could not shower in the same

744
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 3: showers that because of his skin color, the things that

745
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:47,760
Speaker 3: he had to fight and continue to fight, but his persistence,

746
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 3: his persistence to never be different than another man. I

747
00:38:56,080 --> 00:39:03,240
Speaker 3: sat with this man hour after hour. I remember, Monique,

748
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 3: remember this, John Wooden, remember this. A few years later,

749
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 3: Jim came to the house and I'm like a little kid,

750
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 3: I'm like man. Jim Brown is in myles and he

751
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:20,959
Speaker 3: comes up and he says, I've studied you for twelve years.

752
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 3: And I said, Jim Brown has studied me for twelve years.

753
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 3: But what Rod was talking about. Jim Brown had a vision.

754
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 3: The Good Book says, without a vision, down people's your parents.

755
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,720
Speaker 3: Jim Brown had a vision that every man is equal,

756
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 3: regardless of his economics, regardless of his skin color, regardless

757
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:41,800
Speaker 3: of where.

758
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:42,400
Speaker 4: He comes from.

759
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 3: Jim Brown walked that. Jim Brown lived that empowerment. Jim

760
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:52,280
Speaker 3: Brown took authority. You didn't have to give him authority.

761
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:52,839
Speaker 7: He took that.

762
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 3: And when a man mixed up his mind to take something,

763
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 3: be careful to be on the receiving end of that.

764
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 4: I never met a greater person. I've never met a

765
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 4: greater person.

766
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 3: All I used to do, Monique, she used to laugh

767
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 3: so much at me and Jim because of the wars

768
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 3: that we would get into. And I had this rule

769
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 3: because of who he was. I would always sit on

770
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 3: the couch. He would sit on the couch and I

771
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,319
Speaker 3: would sit on the floor, and I would look up

772
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 3: at him.

773
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 25: And everything they're talking about. I asked Papa. I said, Papa,

774
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 25: teach me. Teach me what does it mean to love

775
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 25: your enemies in spite of Teach me what does it mean.

776
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 4: To not.

777
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 3: Want to go back and do something in the streets.

778
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:54,399
Speaker 4: Or be a part?

779
00:40:54,520 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 3: Teach me how I teach others, fathers and sons. It's

780
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 3: time to get back together. Y'all can play with it.

781
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 3: But when you lose somebody like this, God is only

782
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 3: giving you a small peace.

783
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 4: Of what does it mean to raise a god?

784
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 3: Jim Brown, Jim Brown was a walking God, an angel

785
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 3: that God empowered. I called him Papa his belief system.

786
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 3: He sat me down one nay one night, man, Monique,

787
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 3: we's in the house, and I ain't leave that to

788
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 3: Papa his belief system. He sat me down one nay,

789
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 3: one night, man, Monique, we's in the house, and I

790
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 3: ain't leave that till four o'clock in the morning. And

791
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 3: he taught me about the power of belief. Of what

792
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 3: does it mean when everything is against you and you

793
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 3: find your greatest ability to keep getting up. We gotta

794
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 3: I want to change it a little bit, because.

795
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 4: The Good Book says that.

796
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,320
Speaker 3: When a child comes into this world that we should mourn,

797
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:28,800
Speaker 3: and when a legend like him go home, we should rejoice.

798
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 3: This man will not only be remembered, he will be

799
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 3: rejoiced in the hearts of Rock and every gang member

800
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 3: and every Hall of Famer and everybody who's ever felt

801
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 3: any type of racial tension. God is always equal. God

802
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 3: don't see color, Him don't see color. I'm gonna tell

803
00:42:56,480 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 3: you something, and I'm gonna let you. God created a

804
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 3: man of God, an icon, a culture icon, an activist,

805
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 3: an athlete, an actor, a husband, and the greatest thing

806
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:13,919
Speaker 3: that ever came from any of that.

807
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 7: Rock said it clearly.

808
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:23,479
Speaker 3: He became fathers to the fatherless. He gave hope if

809
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 3: there was no hope. Our rule.

810
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 9: We have a rule every man in here.

811
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 3: I challenge every Hall of Famer in here today, Jim,

812
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 3: don't die in vain. Because fathers got to get back

813
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 3: with their sons, and you got to sit with them,

814
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 3: and you got to teach them to wait. Because this

815
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 3: world ain't gonna teach it to him. This man committed

816
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:53,240
Speaker 3: his life to this and now's our turn. Young men

817
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 3: talk to more men than you play on social media.

818
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 3: I promise you I never forget get the last conversations.

819
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 3: My niggae were at the house and I come in

820
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:08,720
Speaker 3: there and he's on his walker and he come around

821
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 3: the corner. As soon as I look up, I'm like,

822
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 3: he's gonna say something smart to me every time.

823
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 9: So I'm kind of.

824
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 3: Bracing myself just in case you want to come off

825
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 3: the walk and give me a little punch. So I'm

826
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 3: kind of bracing myself and I said, I said, Papa, okay,

827
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,919
Speaker 3: I say, here we go. You're starting this mess again.

828
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 4: If we go.

829
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:34,839
Speaker 3: He walked up. He said, if I put if I

830
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 3: put this walker down, I still don't think you can

831
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 3: stop me from getting the yalla. I said, my nigga,

832
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 3: would you please get your husband?

833
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 12: Please this guy.

834
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 9: But it was.

835
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 3: Leaving you with who he was. A lot of fathers

836
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 3: truly believe it's what you can give your children that

837
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:08,879
Speaker 3: will make you happy. It's not what you can give

838
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 3: your kids, it's what you can leave your kids. You

839
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:25,800
Speaker 3: leave your kids hope, faith, love, promise. Jim Brown. Jim Brown,

840
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 3: a lot of people trying to figure out ways to

841
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 3: go to the moon.

842
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 4: Papa.

843
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 3: If you don't do nothing else, whisper to my son

844
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 3: and let him know I'll see you both real soon.

845
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 4: God bless you.

846
00:45:56,360 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 18: I saw the movie industry as a out You had

847
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 18: the same kind of visibility and you could break down

848
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 18: more barriers because the movie industry was very segregated and

849
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 18: there were things that black actors were not.

850
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 4: Supposed to do.

851
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:16,760
Speaker 17: Jim Brown has been underrated in terms of the roles

852
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 17: he embodied in the late sixties and early seventies in Hollywood.

853
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:24,320
Speaker 3: Had to be taken.

854
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 16: I'm happy that the Run Run Taken.

855
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 26: Of Jim changed Hollywood financially. It opened doors because all

856
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:35,760
Speaker 26: of a sudden, Hollywood realized that there was a black

857
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:37,760
Speaker 26: audience that they had been missing all along.

858
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 18: I was a physical actor, I was a hero, and

859
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 18: that's the way I looked at it because we needed

860
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 18: that as African Americans.

861
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 8: An entertainment trailblazer for sure. If you think back to

862
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 8: that time when Jim Brown left football and showed up

863
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 8: in Hollywood movies like The Dirty Dozen among others, there

864
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 8: were not as many black actors in roles, and Jim

865
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 8: just wanted to play the hero. He just wanted to

866
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 8: play somebody on the screen that was pretty close to

867
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 8: what he was in real life. Speaking of trailblazers and

868
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 8: men who've been a part of the entertainment scene over

869
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:24,399
Speaker 8: the years, this gentleman, as was alluded to earlier by

870
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 8: mister Haslam, he has gone for decades promoting some of

871
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 8: the top fights around the world and understands what a

872
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 8: big event, a big moment in the celebrity culture of

873
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 8: the West Coast can bring to the world. For his

874
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 8: reflections on Jim Brown as a trailblazer, please welcome the

875
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 8: founder and CEO of Top Rank, mister Bob Aram.

876
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 4: Thank you, Mike.

877
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 27: It was back in nineteen sixty five and I had

878
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 27: just left the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District

879
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 27: of New York, and I was in private practice and

880
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 27: one of my clients was a company that was distributing

881
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 27: closed circuit of boxing in big events, and they were

882
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 27: doing a fight between Ernie Terrell and George Schavallo and

883
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 27: it wasn't doing very well, and they asked me what

884
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:39,800
Speaker 27: they could do to get some attention to their venture.

885
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 27: And this is back in nineteen sixty five, not so

886
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 27: long ago, and I told them, let's have a black

887
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 27: guy as a commentator on the telecas. Now, this is

888
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 27: nineteen sixty five, during my lifetime, and there had never

889
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 27: been a black person on a telecast of a sporting

890
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 27: event or a news event. I mean, Mike would be

891
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:21,799
Speaker 27: interested in that because he, like so many other of

892
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 27: the commentators happened to be people of color. Now, but

893
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 27: in sixty five that wasn't the case, and I was

894
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:35,840
Speaker 27: assigned the task of finding somebody to be a commentator,

895
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 27: and through a mutual friend, I met Jim Brown and

896
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 27: he was hired as a commentator for the princely sum

897
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:54,839
Speaker 27: of five hundred dollars. And after the fight, I went

898
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 27: to dinner with Jim and he told me you should

899
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:05,839
Speaker 27: didn't be the lawyer for these people, you should be

900
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 27: a promoter. And I said, well, you know, I'd never

901
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 27: seen a boxing match before, and the only one that

902
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:21,880
Speaker 27: was worth even bothering with was Muhammad Ali. And I

903
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 27: said he's taken, and Jim said, no, he isn't. All

904
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 27: arranged for a meeting with Ali.

905
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:33,839
Speaker 4: And a month later I.

906
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 27: Was in my office in New York and Jim called

907
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:44,760
Speaker 27: me and he said, Ali is in a hotel suite

908
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 27: in New York and wants to see us. So with Jim,

909
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 27: I went over to meet with Ali and his advisors,

910
00:50:55,400 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 27: and before I knew it, I was the promo voter

911
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:02,800
Speaker 27: of Muhammad Ali.

912
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 11: And we formed.

913
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:15,840
Speaker 27: And we formed a company called Mainbout and the first

914
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 27: fight we were to do was to be in Chicago.

915
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 27: And within about a month after announcing the fight, Ali's

916
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 27: draft status changed from not being eligible to go into

917
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:39,359
Speaker 27: the army because at that point in time, even though

918
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 27: he was a high school graduate, the schools in Louisville

919
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 27: were so great that Ali couldn't read or write and

920
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 27: so obviously couldn't pass the tests that he was provided,

921
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:59,800
Speaker 27: and they reclassified him one A and that's when Ali said,

922
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:03,439
Speaker 27: I'm not going to go into the army. I got

923
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 27: nothing against the Viatkan And we were really in trouble

924
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:12,359
Speaker 27: because we got thrown out of Chicago with a fight

925
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 27: was going to be held and no city in the

926
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:22,839
Speaker 27: United States would accept the fight. And obviously I had

927
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 27: no experience, but Jim was there constantly, don't give up,

928
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 27: don't give up. We'll find a way, and we went

929
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:39,360
Speaker 27: to Montreal, out of the country, and we signed a

930
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:43,399
Speaker 27: contract to do the fight at the Forum in Montreal,

931
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 27: but then the mayor of Montreal said, you can't do

932
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 27: the fight here because he was threatened by the American

933
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:56,840
Speaker 27: legion that they were going to do in Montreal or

934
00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 27: World's Fair, and they were going to boycott it. So

935
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 27: somehow we ended up in Toronto and the owner or

936
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:09,759
Speaker 27: half owner of the Toronto team and building how to

937
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 27: buy out his partner in order to get the fight on,

938
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 27: and we did the fight, and that launched our company,

939
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 27: main Valt, and then we promoted some fights for Ali.

940
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 27: We first took him out of the country and then

941
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 27: in the United States, and all the while I was

942
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 27: working for a way to save the situation with Ali

943
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:51,320
Speaker 27: because his criminal indictment was coming. And I was fortunate

944
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 27: enough to meet with Lyndon Johnson, who was President of

945
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 27: the United States, and we arranged a deal for Ali

946
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 27: that he didn't have to go into the he'd go

947
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 27: into the army, but didn't have to put a uniform on.

948
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 27: He'd do some exhibitions and continue his career. And then

949
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 27: Jim and I had a meeting and we discussed the

950
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 27: fact that this was a great opportunity to get Ali

951
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 27: to accept the deal and to have a meeting with

952
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:33,440
Speaker 27: all of the top professional black athletes in the country.

953
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 27: That's now known as the Summit something, and they would

954
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:47,840
Speaker 27: convince Ali to take the deal. And because Jim was

955
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:56,080
Speaker 27: so interested in economic parody for black people, that the

956
00:54:56,600 --> 00:55:03,839
Speaker 27: closed circuit exhibitors would now be chosen from among all

957
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:09,880
Speaker 27: the black athletes. Now this was a great development because

958
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:15,400
Speaker 27: in those days, professional football players were making very little money,

959
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:20,840
Speaker 27: and a closed circuit operator of a big heavyweight fight

960
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 27: could make considerable money. So Jim got all of these

961
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 27: athletes together. You've seen the picture, but this is the

962
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:36,239
Speaker 27: real true story behind it. All of them came to

963
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:40,399
Speaker 27: that meeting, and John Mootin is here. He was at

964
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:44,479
Speaker 27: that meeting and he'll tell you about it. And their

965
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 27: goal was to convince Sally to take the deal that

966
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:54,720
Speaker 27: Lyndon Johnson had offered. And after some of them talked,

967
00:55:55,440 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 27: Alee got up and talked for three hours and convinced

968
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 27: all of these college graduates, which the players were, that

969
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:12,040
Speaker 27: he was right and they were wrong, and what he

970
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 27: was doing was the right thing. And so we continued

971
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:21,120
Speaker 27: with Ali's career for a few more months, and then

972
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 27: he wouldn't step forward, and they convicted him of straft

973
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:35,120
Speaker 27: evasion or something like that, and he couldn't fight for

974
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:39,759
Speaker 27: three and a half years. After a federal judge in

975
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:44,320
Speaker 27: New York said that that wasn't grounds for taking away

976
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 27: his license. We were given the opportunity to promote Ali

977
00:56:52,320 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 27: again and I formed my company called Top Rank after

978
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 27: talking to Jim who said, by all means, go ahead,

979
00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:08,440
Speaker 27: everything is going to be great.

980
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 2: You're listening to Bob Aaron Formant, the famous boxing promoter

981
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 2: on the Jim Brown a Celebration for Life. You're listening

982
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 2: to eight fifty esp and Cleveland, a Good Karma brand station.

983
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 27: But all around the world, and that's thanks to Jim

984
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 27: Brown and Jim Brown's vision. Jim had the idea, and

985
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 27: it was an idea that was so simple that all

986
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 27: people should have the opportunity to succeed in this economy.

987
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 27: He established the organization that led to offices all over

988
00:57:55,320 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 27: the country because unless Americans realize that if we didn't

989
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 27: integrate the economic viability of everybody in the United States,

990
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 27: we would fail as a country. Now we haven't done

991
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:22,840
Speaker 27: it completely, we haven't done it a lot, but thanks

992
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 27: to Jim Brown, it is now. I think something that

993
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:37,800
Speaker 27: we can see happening a quality not only at the

994
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 27: ballot box, but equality in economic opportunity, and if in

995
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 27: this day, hopefully not too far off, we reach that goal,

996
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 27: I think so much of the thanks will go to

997
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 27: the leadership of the great Jim Brown.

998
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 4: Thank you very much. That was a hell of a story.

999
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 4: That was really cool. Wow. As you can tell, Jim.

1000
00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 8: Brown had a lot of friends. One of them is

1001
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:29,120
Speaker 8: someone who's probably very familiar to many of you, who

1002
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 8: was part of the Great Group New Edition. His music

1003
00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:37,400
Speaker 8: has sold over fifteen million copies worldwide. He is been

1004
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:41,440
Speaker 8: nominated for a Grammy and only appropriate to have a

1005
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 8: musical interlude of someone who is a friend and who

1006
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:50,200
Speaker 8: counted Jim Brown as somebody special to him and performing

1007
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 8: a song that you would think would make sense at

1008
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 8: a celebration of Jim Brown's life here to perform.

1009
00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 4: A Change is going to come.

1010
00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:00,720
Speaker 8: Please welcome Grammy nominated artist Johnny Kill.

1011
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:35,919
Speaker 7: I was born on the river in a little tent.

1012
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:45,440
Speaker 7: Oh just like the river, having a loney every since.

1013
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:53,840
Speaker 7: It's been a lot a long time. Come in, but

1014
01:00:53,960 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 7: I'm not A change is going to come. WHOA yes

1015
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 7: it weed. He's been too hard man and I'm afraid to.

1016
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:18,320
Speaker 20: Die because I don't know what's up there.

1017
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:27,400
Speaker 7: Beyond this guy. He's been a love a love.

1018
01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 20: Time coming.

1019
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:30,960
Speaker 7: But somebody knows that.

1020
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:31,360
Speaker 20: I know that.

1021
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 7: I know that you know that a change is gotta come?

1022
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:36,760
Speaker 7: Who yes it we?

1023
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 21: Then I go.

1024
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:53,840
Speaker 20: To my brother, I said, brother, brother, brother, brother, brother, brother,

1025
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 20: brother brother, won't you help me?

1026
01:01:57,520 --> 01:01:57,920
Speaker 13: Please?

1027
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:09,840
Speaker 20: Then he winds up? Yeah, boyd he winds up? He

1028
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 20: knocked me? Said, he knocked me right back down on

1029
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 20: my knees. There was time, but I thought I will

1030
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:28,800
Speaker 20: lads very long, but I want you to know only

1031
01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 20: through God.

1032
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:34,720
Speaker 7: Now I'm able. I'm adele to carry on. It's been a.

1033
01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:42,440
Speaker 20: Long a long time come ina, But I know.

1034
01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:55,560
Speaker 7: A change is gonna come. Who said, we said? Then

1035
01:02:55,600 --> 01:03:04,520
Speaker 7: I go to my my you shaid, I ask him again,

1036
01:03:04,520 --> 01:03:08,479
Speaker 7: I said, brother, brother, brother, brother brother, can you help

1037
01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:08,880
Speaker 7: meke me?

1038
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:17,040
Speaker 20: He said, But then he wind up? Damn Should he

1039
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:17,440
Speaker 20: want that?

1040
01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:18,640
Speaker 7: Said? He you wind up?

1041
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:20,000
Speaker 28: Yeah?

1042
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 7: Should he knock me? Should he knock me? Should he

1043
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:24,400
Speaker 7: knock me?

1044
01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:25,560
Speaker 4: Knock me?

1045
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:27,920
Speaker 7: On money?

1046
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:28,640
Speaker 27: There was.

1047
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:31,000
Speaker 8: When I.

1048
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:40,520
Speaker 20: Wouldn't make him every low. I don't know about chopping.

1049
01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:44,840
Speaker 20: When I depend on God, I know I know he helped.

1050
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 7: To carry on. He's been a long If.

1051
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:50,360
Speaker 20: You don't, man, y'all can stand up and get it

1052
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:52,920
Speaker 20: to Gym tonight said this a long time coming up?

1053
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:56,280
Speaker 20: Should I know? Said I show? No, I say he

1054
01:03:56,440 --> 01:04:03,880
Speaker 20: is gonna come. I'm getsing, we lawyer. If you don't

1055
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:06,320
Speaker 20: want to stand when you're just wearing your hands? Should

1056
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:10,280
Speaker 20: a change is gonna come? Should it say that's gonna come?

1057
01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:12,360
Speaker 20: Should it change is gonna come?

1058
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:15,040
Speaker 7: Gonna come? You know where all you got to.

1059
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 20: Do is stand obeys wheel, stay on your knees.

1060
01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:21,600
Speaker 7: Should I know no, no, no no no no no

1061
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:23,520
Speaker 7: no no no no no no no. Should I know

1062
01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:26,040
Speaker 7: a shan is gonna come? Should I know?

1063
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:26,760
Speaker 5: I know?

1064
01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:28,160
Speaker 7: Should I know?

1065
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:28,840
Speaker 29: I know?

1066
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:35,040
Speaker 7: I know, I know, I know change is going? Who

1067
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:36,440
Speaker 7: you seeing me?

1068
01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 30: Oh?

1069
01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:45,120
Speaker 7: Should it chang.

1070
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:46,880
Speaker 15: Age?

1071
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:49,520
Speaker 8: It's gone.

1072
01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:53,400
Speaker 7: Gone the come.

1073
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:24,520
Speaker 18: I was born black, but I didn't live black. I

1074
01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:26,959
Speaker 18: was trying to live the way that everybody else was living.

1075
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:30,360
Speaker 18: But there was segregation at that time, there was a discrimination.

1076
01:05:31,040 --> 01:05:32,200
Speaker 4: This country was a mess.

1077
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 14: Organized the famed Cleveland Summit here in nineteen sixty seven, which,

1078
01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:42,480
Speaker 14: in Gym's wisdom, expanded to how do we empower economic

1079
01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:48,040
Speaker 14: advancement and economic development? Opportunities amongst people from all backgrounds

1080
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:48,720
Speaker 14: and all races.

1081
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:53,880
Speaker 11: For me, that picture signifies the increasing willingness of Black

1082
01:05:53,920 --> 01:05:57,000
Speaker 11: Americans to come out of the comfort zone and confront

1083
01:05:57,280 --> 01:06:00,360
Speaker 11: the powers that be on issues that were important.

1084
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:03,600
Speaker 17: Was the change that he represented. I think he's one

1085
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:07,640
Speaker 17: of the most important cultural figures in American history playing something.

1086
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:15,040
Speaker 8: One of the gentlemen who was there for some of

1087
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:17,680
Speaker 8: that change and continue to be a part of it

1088
01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:21,360
Speaker 8: after is John Wooten, who serves as the chair of

1089
01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 8: the Fritz Pollard Alliance, so important in getting more blacks

1090
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:29,080
Speaker 8: and more minorities involved in the National Football League's coaching ranks.

1091
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:32,200
Speaker 8: He was a championship executive a couple of times. He

1092
01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 8: was an executive on a Super Bowl winning team, but

1093
01:06:35,080 --> 01:06:37,640
Speaker 8: was also a teammate of Jim Browns from nineteen fifty

1094
01:06:37,760 --> 01:06:40,680
Speaker 8: nine to nineteen sixty seven and part of that much

1095
01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 8: talked about nineteen sixty four Browns championship team. For some

1096
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:49,120
Speaker 8: reflections on Jim and the catalyst for change, please welcome

1097
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:52,440
Speaker 8: our second or last speaker here this afternoon, John Wooten.

1098
01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:14,760
Speaker 13: H thank you, thank you.

1099
01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:16,560
Speaker 5: Well.

1100
01:07:16,560 --> 01:07:17,120
Speaker 4: I tell you.

1101
01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:21,520
Speaker 12: Bad enough to have to come behind. Ray Lewis and

1102
01:07:22,760 --> 01:07:27,520
Speaker 12: Bob Aaron and now got to come behind Johnny gille.

1103
01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 9: Well.

1104
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:41,040
Speaker 12: I thought somebody said life is fair. I was thrilled, honored,

1105
01:07:42,880 --> 01:07:47,040
Speaker 12: and what a privilege. When Morney called.

1106
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:49,200
Speaker 4: And asked.

1107
01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:58,240
Speaker 12: If I would speak to you today, Jim Brown. You've

1108
01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:03,000
Speaker 12: seen the TV and memories and so forth. You know

1109
01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:11,760
Speaker 12: all about how he was a great athlete, great football player.

1110
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:13,840
Speaker 30: That it was.

1111
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:20,040
Speaker 12: I want to talk to you about what you've heard

1112
01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:26,439
Speaker 12: over and over today, the great person that it was,

1113
01:08:27,560 --> 01:08:32,120
Speaker 12: the great vision that he had. He said to me,

1114
01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:39,200
Speaker 12: who we're not going to march, We're not going to

1115
01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:43,519
Speaker 12: be on the city ins. But we got to get

1116
01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:48,439
Speaker 12: in the fight. And the fight is an economic and

1117
01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 12: education thing. The human dignity is what all of this

1118
01:08:57,040 --> 01:09:03,280
Speaker 12: is about. Respect everyone.

1119
01:09:05,479 --> 01:09:10,479
Speaker 4: It's what we have to have. And so I say

1120
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:12,000
Speaker 4: to the athletes.

1121
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:19,640
Speaker 12: All over this country, NFL, NBA, major League Baseball, everywhere,

1122
01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:28,160
Speaker 12: take it upon yourself to be involved in your community.

1123
01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:38,040
Speaker 12: To the NFL players, there's an office in every NFL

1124
01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:42,400
Speaker 12: team called player Engagement.

1125
01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:44,000
Speaker 4: Office.

1126
01:09:45,560 --> 01:09:50,800
Speaker 12: Take it upon yourself to go and tell that engagement

1127
01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:57,200
Speaker 12: offer officer. I want to be involved. I want to volunteer.

1128
01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:01,840
Speaker 12: I want to give up my to make my community,

1129
01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:20,879
Speaker 12: a better place to live, human dignity, respect of everyone.

1130
01:10:22,320 --> 01:10:25,560
Speaker 12: If you agree with what I'm saying to you this afternoon,

1131
01:10:27,880 --> 01:10:33,479
Speaker 12: let's stand right now with hands raised and said, Jim,

1132
01:10:33,640 --> 01:10:37,040
Speaker 12: we are going to follow what you set out, what

1133
01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:41,479
Speaker 12: you showed us to do. We're going to stand for

1134
01:10:41,680 --> 01:10:52,960
Speaker 12: human dignity. Repeat, for human dignity. Respect everybody, Human dignity,

1135
01:10:54,880 --> 01:11:12,439
Speaker 12: respect everybody. Thank you. There's one other thing that I

1136
01:11:12,560 --> 01:11:18,680
Speaker 12: want to do here before we leave the podium, and

1137
01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:23,840
Speaker 12: that is to say, ray Lewis, stand up, my friend,

1138
01:11:33,439 --> 01:11:37,439
Speaker 12: in front of the entire world that we're talking to

1139
01:11:37,640 --> 01:11:46,040
Speaker 12: this afternoon, this is the man that Jim chose to

1140
01:11:46,160 --> 01:11:51,479
Speaker 12: be the next leader of the athletes. He told me that,

1141
01:11:52,439 --> 01:11:58,560
Speaker 12: he told you that. He told you that because I

1142
01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:04,280
Speaker 12: know that he told you that, because he told me.

1143
01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:11,800
Speaker 12: This is our guy. And this afternoon we're saying, rae

1144
01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:18,160
Speaker 12: John Woodness, as you seize Caine everything, it's time for

1145
01:12:18,280 --> 01:12:26,799
Speaker 12: him to go home. Look out the window, Commissioner Roger Goodell,

1146
01:12:28,160 --> 01:12:31,479
Speaker 12: this is the new leader that we want.

1147
01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:45,400
Speaker 4: One lass thing.

1148
01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:52,640
Speaker 12: All players who played with Jim from fifty seven to

1149
01:12:52,800 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 12: sixty five, if you're in the audience where you stand,

1150
01:12:56,479 --> 01:12:59,200
Speaker 12: please so that we recognize you.

1151
01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:02,240
Speaker 13: All player.

1152
01:13:13,439 --> 01:13:27,280
Speaker 12: Okay, there's been a great afternoon, just outstanding, and we

1153
01:13:27,439 --> 01:13:34,160
Speaker 12: want to say lastly, no one understand this is a

1154
01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:40,920
Speaker 12: great country. I'm standing here tonight today before you knowing

1155
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:44,840
Speaker 12: how great this country has been to us. And all

1156
01:13:44,920 --> 01:13:53,560
Speaker 12: I'm saying to you is this, continue to believe in

1157
01:13:53,760 --> 01:13:59,960
Speaker 12: human dignity for everyone. Respect everybody. This is a great

1158
01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:05,799
Speaker 12: We've had a great evening. And I remember the story

1159
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:10,719
Speaker 12: Rob Johnson, because Jim told me exactly what you said

1160
01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:14,720
Speaker 12: here today, told me about the incident of you with

1161
01:14:14,960 --> 01:14:19,400
Speaker 12: you and so forth. That's the kind of situation that

1162
01:14:19,560 --> 01:14:26,920
Speaker 12: we had. Bob aarm what he told you here is

1163
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 12: all about. Then he grew industrial economic Union to be

1164
01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:38,320
Speaker 12: you the America. I can all of this is coming

1165
01:14:38,400 --> 01:14:45,040
Speaker 12: out of Jim's mind because we cannot afford, we cannot

1166
01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:51,240
Speaker 12: afford to stand on the sidelines, be involved in your community.

1167
01:14:51,920 --> 01:14:55,800
Speaker 12: This is a great country. There's no country better than

1168
01:14:55,880 --> 01:15:03,200
Speaker 12: this country. But we let's do what we must do,

1169
01:15:04,360 --> 01:15:10,519
Speaker 12: and that is human dignity and respect each other. Thank

1170
01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:15,240
Speaker 12: you Monique again for me to come and say thank.

1171
01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:15,800
Speaker 4: You, thank you.

1172
01:15:43,880 --> 01:15:46,080
Speaker 17: When you look at the NFL now, I mean it's

1173
01:15:46,120 --> 01:15:49,360
Speaker 17: a league with a very large number of African American players.

1174
01:15:49,520 --> 01:15:51,840
Speaker 17: This wasn't the case when Jim played. You had all

1175
01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:56,439
Speaker 17: these old stereotypes. Jim was a dominant black star during

1176
01:15:56,520 --> 01:15:59,080
Speaker 17: this time when there weren't that many black players.

1177
01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:02,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I was a big, dim Brown fan.

1178
01:16:02,360 --> 01:16:03,920
Speaker 13: I mean, matter of fact, that's play in high school

1179
01:16:03,920 --> 01:16:07,240
Speaker 13: at number thirty two because because of Ben Brown.

1180
01:16:08,160 --> 01:16:11,400
Speaker 31: Jim Brown not only both Russian records and ran around

1181
01:16:11,479 --> 01:16:14,080
Speaker 31: people and broke tackles, but he also broke down color

1182
01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:16,920
Speaker 31: barriers and stepped forward and was willing to speak up

1183
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:19,000
Speaker 31: on the behalf of other people at a time where

1184
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:20,280
Speaker 31: it was not popular.

1185
01:16:20,760 --> 01:16:23,679
Speaker 32: Whether he was carrying a football for the Cleveland Browns

1186
01:16:23,800 --> 01:16:26,519
Speaker 32: or carrying a message of hope. In modern day America,

1187
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:29,200
Speaker 32: a few people have done it with the power of

1188
01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:30,000
Speaker 32: Jim Brown.

1189
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:38,680
Speaker 8: For some final reflections on Jim, it's an honor to

1190
01:16:38,720 --> 01:16:42,240
Speaker 8: bring up his wife more than a quarter century Modique Brown.

1191
01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:54,760
Speaker 24: Thank you all for.

1192
01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:59,800
Speaker 5: Being here today. This is a beautiful, beautiful event, and

1193
01:17:00,760 --> 01:17:03,120
Speaker 5: I have the honor and privilege of being here to

1194
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:07,519
Speaker 5: express to you a little bit about my husband. I

1195
01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:12,160
Speaker 5: met Jim almost thirty years ago in Buffalo, New York.

1196
01:17:12,240 --> 01:17:16,599
Speaker 5: We were on a morning show together and unlikely of pairings,

1197
01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:20,000
Speaker 5: you would say, looking from the outside in. But something

1198
01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:23,479
Speaker 5: that really resonated in my spirit, not knowing anything about

1199
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:27,880
Speaker 5: football or Jim's movie career at the time, was this

1200
01:17:28,120 --> 01:17:32,120
Speaker 5: man was as I learned about a mare I can

1201
01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:35,519
Speaker 5: this is a man who's dedicated his life to being

1202
01:17:35,560 --> 01:17:39,599
Speaker 5: of service and not only speaking it, but actually having

1203
01:17:39,720 --> 01:17:45,400
Speaker 5: something quantifiable to live in people's lives. Jim and I

1204
01:17:45,560 --> 01:17:49,320
Speaker 5: were bonded because of our love for human beings and humanity,

1205
01:17:50,280 --> 01:17:53,200
Speaker 5: and from the very beginning we were very clear as

1206
01:17:53,479 --> 01:17:56,000
Speaker 5: that was a part of our mission in life. Our

1207
01:17:56,040 --> 01:17:59,679
Speaker 5: life's mission was to be of service. So every day,

1208
01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:02,080
Speaker 5: you know, we travel all over the country, and just

1209
01:18:02,200 --> 01:18:05,240
Speaker 5: being by his side and having him be a champion

1210
01:18:06,200 --> 01:18:09,280
Speaker 5: in my life and learning so much as you all,

1211
01:18:09,840 --> 01:18:14,240
Speaker 5: anyone who's here knows that when you meet Jim or

1212
01:18:14,280 --> 01:18:17,519
Speaker 5: when you hear Jim speak, there's jewels and Jim's that

1213
01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:22,519
Speaker 5: you never leave. They stay with you forever. And some

1214
01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:26,120
Speaker 5: of the things that I thought about was what makes

1215
01:18:26,200 --> 01:18:30,840
Speaker 5: Jim Jim, you know, Jim Brown. I think if I

1216
01:18:30,880 --> 01:18:34,920
Speaker 5: can think of one word to describe him in a sense,

1217
01:18:34,920 --> 01:18:40,240
Speaker 5: would be an underdog. Jim was born in Saint Simon Island, Georgia.

1218
01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:44,639
Speaker 5: Didn't have a father and mother was, you know, away

1219
01:18:45,120 --> 01:18:48,360
Speaker 5: at a very young age, working to provide in the

1220
01:18:48,479 --> 01:18:53,360
Speaker 5: in the city of him said in New York. So

1221
01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:56,759
Speaker 5: Jim was raised by his great grandmother and his grandmother,

1222
01:18:57,200 --> 01:19:00,320
Speaker 5: but very much an only child without a father. And

1223
01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:02,800
Speaker 5: I remember one day we were laying down and I said, Jim,

1224
01:19:03,840 --> 01:19:06,560
Speaker 5: you didn't have a father growing up, How did you

1225
01:19:06,680 --> 01:19:10,120
Speaker 5: become how did you form the fundamentals around yourself? And

1226
01:19:10,439 --> 01:19:12,759
Speaker 5: as a young boy growing up on St. Simon Island,

1227
01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:15,920
Speaker 5: And he said, there was one gentleman by the name

1228
01:19:15,960 --> 01:19:20,439
Speaker 5: of mister Willis. Mister Willis had a convenience store and

1229
01:19:20,520 --> 01:19:22,720
Speaker 5: he was an African American man with a business in

1230
01:19:22,760 --> 01:19:26,439
Speaker 5: the community. Mister Willis would talk to the young men

1231
01:19:27,240 --> 01:19:30,400
Speaker 5: and give them a sense of dignity and pride. And

1232
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:34,240
Speaker 5: he said, Monique, he said, mister Willis taught me what

1233
01:19:34,360 --> 01:19:37,680
Speaker 5: it meant to have dignity. He taught me what it

1234
01:19:37,760 --> 01:19:40,400
Speaker 5: meant to be a man. He would give him jobs

1235
01:19:40,439 --> 01:19:42,960
Speaker 5: to do, he would have him groom his beard or

1236
01:19:43,120 --> 01:19:46,320
Speaker 5: just you know, just do things around the community. And

1237
01:19:46,479 --> 01:19:49,479
Speaker 5: he was that pillar in Saint Simon. When Jim was

1238
01:19:49,520 --> 01:19:52,519
Speaker 5: growing up at the age of I think it was

1239
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:55,360
Speaker 5: around thirteen or twelve he was he was sent to

1240
01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 5: live with his mom. His mom sent for him to

1241
01:19:57,280 --> 01:19:59,960
Speaker 5: come to Manhassan, Long Island, where he had a community

1242
01:20:00,240 --> 01:20:03,439
Speaker 5: of men. And they were not your traditional type of men.

1243
01:20:04,320 --> 01:20:08,160
Speaker 5: They weren't African American. They were white men who were

1244
01:20:09,439 --> 01:20:13,840
Speaker 5: very established professionals in the community of Manhasseant Long Island,

1245
01:20:14,680 --> 01:20:18,400
Speaker 5: and they really wrapped their arms around Jim and became

1246
01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:22,679
Speaker 5: like surrogates to him. So throughout his life Jim had

1247
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:27,479
Speaker 5: moments where he was told, you know, by all the odds,

1248
01:20:27,520 --> 01:20:31,360
Speaker 5: he should have failed. I mean he was didn't have

1249
01:20:31,439 --> 01:20:35,679
Speaker 5: a father, went to Syracuse University and where they didn't

1250
01:20:35,680 --> 01:20:37,840
Speaker 5: even want him. They told him he wasn't good enough

1251
01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:41,760
Speaker 5: to play. Jim didn't realize he didn't even have a scholarship.

1252
01:20:42,320 --> 01:20:45,479
Speaker 5: It was a community of Manhasset, Long Island that believed

1253
01:20:45,520 --> 01:20:47,840
Speaker 5: in him so much they raised money for his first

1254
01:20:47,920 --> 01:20:50,200
Speaker 5: year because they wanted him to be close to them,

1255
01:20:50,520 --> 01:20:53,760
Speaker 5: They wanted to keep their hand on him. He found

1256
01:20:53,760 --> 01:20:56,280
Speaker 5: out he didn't have a scholarship when his meal car

1257
01:20:56,400 --> 01:21:01,559
Speaker 5: didn't work one day at school. Oh and not being

1258
01:21:01,560 --> 01:21:03,200
Speaker 5: able to play to be Jim Brown, to be told

1259
01:21:03,240 --> 01:21:06,160
Speaker 5: you're not good enough to get on the field, to

1260
01:21:06,280 --> 01:21:10,040
Speaker 5: sit the bench for your first year, all of those

1261
01:21:10,120 --> 01:21:14,479
Speaker 5: seeds of doubt that could have broken anyone. Jim turned

1262
01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:17,240
Speaker 5: those and had people around him who believed in him.

1263
01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:23,040
Speaker 5: His superintendent, mister Collins, his high school football coach at Walsh,

1264
01:21:23,720 --> 01:21:25,840
Speaker 5: those were the people. When Jim wanted to quit school,

1265
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:29,639
Speaker 5: he was going to leave Syracuse because in his mind

1266
01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:34,280
Speaker 5: he felt broken, and he said, you know, mister Collins

1267
01:21:34,360 --> 01:21:37,120
Speaker 5: came up and tell me, don't ever let anyone tell

1268
01:21:37,160 --> 01:21:40,519
Speaker 5: you what you can or cannot do. And I think

1269
01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:43,880
Speaker 5: more than anything, Jim never let anyone tell him what.

1270
01:21:43,920 --> 01:21:47,240
Speaker 28: He could or could not do. He walked the walk.

1271
01:21:47,680 --> 01:21:51,040
Speaker 5: He talked the talk every day. And I feel like

1272
01:21:51,160 --> 01:21:54,200
Speaker 5: when I think about the threat of Jim's life, and

1273
01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:56,560
Speaker 5: I really had a long time to think about this

1274
01:21:56,720 --> 01:22:00,519
Speaker 5: and all the beautiful people that he's brought together. I mean,

1275
01:22:00,560 --> 01:22:04,000
Speaker 5: we've only seen a snippet here today with John Wooten

1276
01:22:04,120 --> 01:22:09,760
Speaker 5: and the Haslim family, Bob Aram, ray Lewis. I mean,

1277
01:22:10,600 --> 01:22:13,320
Speaker 5: we're just seeing a piece of it. Rudolph Rockhead, Johnson,

1278
01:22:13,920 --> 01:22:17,000
Speaker 5: We're just seeing a small piece of really Jim being

1279
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:21,639
Speaker 5: a catalyst for change, him being a catalyst for change

1280
01:22:22,400 --> 01:22:25,000
Speaker 5: because he understood what it was like to not have

1281
01:22:25,760 --> 01:22:29,559
Speaker 5: a father, to not have so walking with Jim every

1282
01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:32,719
Speaker 5: day was an honor for me. Every day we worked

1283
01:22:32,880 --> 01:22:35,920
Speaker 5: and pushed the vision and the movement of American forward.

1284
01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:39,559
Speaker 5: Every moment he would get up, he would never complain.

1285
01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:42,000
Speaker 5: I mean we're talking in his We met it when

1286
01:22:42,040 --> 01:22:44,280
Speaker 5: Jim was in his fifties, so late fifties to sixties,

1287
01:22:44,320 --> 01:22:47,800
Speaker 5: seventies and into his eighties. Jim was never one to

1288
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:52,320
Speaker 5: ever complain, never spoke bad about anyone. And it was

1289
01:22:52,439 --> 01:22:54,880
Speaker 5: so inspiring to be with him and people say, oh,

1290
01:22:55,000 --> 01:22:58,200
Speaker 5: you know, thank you for taking such good care of Jim.

1291
01:22:59,200 --> 01:23:02,360
Speaker 5: Jim was my best friend. He was my biggest champion.

1292
01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:05,400
Speaker 5: He remember he would say, baby, as bad as you

1293
01:23:05,479 --> 01:23:09,280
Speaker 5: can be, bring it. And I really appreciated that he

1294
01:23:09,439 --> 01:23:13,600
Speaker 5: had trust in me. He respected me, he listened to me,

1295
01:23:14,520 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 5: and the shift of our relationship because it started where

1296
01:23:18,240 --> 01:23:21,360
Speaker 5: you know, he was my mentor, and then as I

1297
01:23:21,640 --> 01:23:25,840
Speaker 5: gain wisdom and experience, he shifted and would lean on

1298
01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:29,960
Speaker 5: me more. And I remember him saying, Mounique leaders eat last.

1299
01:23:31,080 --> 01:23:36,519
Speaker 5: Jim led with humanity, He led with strength, uncompromising strength,

1300
01:23:37,520 --> 01:23:40,240
Speaker 5: and I'm just so proud to be here today. I'm

1301
01:23:40,280 --> 01:23:44,000
Speaker 5: so grateful to everyone who's made this day possible, to

1302
01:23:44,120 --> 01:23:47,360
Speaker 5: all the family, all the friends, if you were, if

1303
01:23:47,400 --> 01:23:50,400
Speaker 5: you're here, you are family. All the fans that have

1304
01:23:50,479 --> 01:23:51,519
Speaker 5: come up to Jim.

1305
01:23:51,400 --> 01:23:51,960
Speaker 9: Over the years.

1306
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:54,840
Speaker 5: Has always been a privilege because every story that you

1307
01:23:55,000 --> 01:23:58,840
Speaker 5: have is a unique experience that you share and it's

1308
01:23:58,880 --> 01:24:01,640
Speaker 5: so much deeper than full ball or lacrosse. And I

1309
01:24:01,760 --> 01:24:05,479
Speaker 5: recognize that and I honor that. So on behalf of

1310
01:24:05,560 --> 01:24:09,719
Speaker 5: our family and myself, I just want to thank the NFL,

1311
01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:13,040
Speaker 5: the Hall of Fame, the Haslam family, the Browns, the

1312
01:24:13,120 --> 01:24:16,719
Speaker 5: Browns fans and community for making the stay so special.

1313
01:24:17,840 --> 01:24:18,120
Speaker 3: Thank you.

1314
01:24:40,360 --> 01:24:42,799
Speaker 8: First, I wasn't going to let you leave a standing ovation.

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Speaker 8: And secondly, we have a special presentation. Please be seated,

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Speaker 8: be comfortable for just a couple more minutes.

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Speaker 4: Cap Fending is with us.

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Speaker 8: Cap is the Glenn County Georgia Commissioner and he has

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Speaker 8: a special announcement to make to you money and the

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Speaker 8: Brown family.

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Speaker 4: Cat please.

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Speaker 10: Well, good afternoon. I'm the guy that nobody knows and

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01:25:11,280 --> 01:25:14,560
Speaker 10: it's a great honor to be here and for this occasion.

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Speaker 10: I'm from Saint Simon's Island, Georgia. My accent authenticates that's.

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01:25:21,760 --> 01:25:22,479
Speaker 11: Where I'm from.

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Speaker 10: I'm here because of a relationship that I've had with

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Speaker 10: Jim Brown. I'm here because of a relationship out of

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01:25:32,520 --> 01:25:37,360
Speaker 10: that that's developed with money. And I'm here because Saint

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01:25:37,439 --> 01:25:42,120
Speaker 10: Simon's was where Jim Brown was born and he loved

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01:25:42,439 --> 01:25:46,400
Speaker 10: Saint Simon's and he came back to Saint Simon's regularly

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01:25:47,600 --> 01:25:49,799
Speaker 10: and he would tell me We're going to do something.

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Speaker 10: I'm in my third term as County Commissioner, and God

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Speaker 10: has providentially put me in this place in time to

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Speaker 10: help his vision come forward. Because everything that we've talked

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01:26:02,439 --> 01:26:08,000
Speaker 10: about tonight this afternoon is about Jim Brown's accompliments in

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01:26:08,120 --> 01:26:12,400
Speaker 10: the past. What is going to be his accomplishments in

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Speaker 10: the future. Well, they were working on that plan for

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01:26:17,040 --> 01:26:20,800
Speaker 10: Saint Simon's. Jim Brown has property there and my new

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01:26:20,960 --> 01:26:24,080
Speaker 10: have property there, and he had a plan for a place,

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01:26:25,200 --> 01:26:27,000
Speaker 10: not a house with a sign on it that said

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01:26:27,080 --> 01:26:32,960
Speaker 10: Jim Brown lived here, but a place that would be

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Speaker 10: built that young people could come, have hope, get the training,

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01:26:42,439 --> 01:26:45,600
Speaker 10: going to be as success as God created them, and

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01:26:45,720 --> 01:26:50,200
Speaker 10: not experience the past that he had to go through,

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Speaker 10: and that's his vision, and we've been working on that

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01:26:54,439 --> 01:26:58,640
Speaker 10: vision on Saint Simon's Island to.

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Speaker 9: Make that come forth. And we're at the threshold to

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Speaker 9: do that.

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Speaker 4: And I'm here to.

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01:27:05,120 --> 01:27:09,720
Speaker 10: Advocate for the future vision of Jim Brown and to

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01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:13,320
Speaker 10: challenge each one of you that are here today. Is

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01:27:13,400 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 10: his friends, is his associates, and moniques. Monique should not

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01:27:18,320 --> 01:27:22,880
Speaker 10: be left holding to make this project come forth. The

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Speaker 10: land is there, it's next to a great county park

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Speaker 10: that provides the opportunities to do what Jim's vision was.

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01:27:31,200 --> 01:27:35,479
Speaker 10: He had one last vision, it's on paper, and she

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01:27:35,640 --> 01:27:38,400
Speaker 10: cannot be left on her own to carry that out.

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Speaker 10: So I challenge the organization of the NFL, the owners

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Speaker 10: of the Cleveland Brown, his friends that are here, Ray Lewis,

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01:27:46,960 --> 01:27:49,639
Speaker 10: who I was sitting next to, and the other people

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01:27:49,720 --> 01:27:50,240
Speaker 10: that are here.

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Speaker 4: To honor Jim Brown.

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Speaker 10: You honor Jim Brown by telling Monica you're going to

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01:27:56,640 --> 01:27:59,640
Speaker 10: take the reins and you're going to help lead her

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01:27:59,720 --> 01:28:03,400
Speaker 10: throat and carry the vision that they had together, so

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Speaker 10: that for the next one hundred years on Saint Simon's Island, Georgia,

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Speaker 10: men and women, young ones older, ones can come and

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01:28:14,920 --> 01:28:19,640
Speaker 10: live and find their full destiny. Will you rise up

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01:28:19,880 --> 01:28:34,080
Speaker 10: and help Manique to do that. I'm also County Commissioner

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01:28:34,160 --> 01:28:42,799
Speaker 10: on Saint Simon's in Glen County, and so bureaucratically and honorably,

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Speaker 10: it's my pleasure from my fellow commissioners a proclamation to

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01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:51,640
Speaker 10: present to me need that embodies all the things that

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01:28:51,720 --> 01:28:55,280
Speaker 10: have been told about him tonight that hopefully we'll hang

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Speaker 10: in the house in the place that you will help

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Speaker 10: Manique build on Saint Simon's so that many, many generations

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01:29:04,120 --> 01:29:07,280
Speaker 10: will know the living breath and story of Jim Brown,

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01:29:07,840 --> 01:29:10,880
Speaker 10: not just his remembrance. Monique, thank you.

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Speaker 26: Him.

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Speaker 5: And I'll just add one quick thing Cap shared with

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Speaker 5: us that as of today, August third is Jim Brown

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Speaker 5: Day in Saint Simon Island, Georgia.

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Speaker 8: Well, thank you, thank you, thank you, Cap, and thank

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01:29:39,760 --> 01:29:43,000
Speaker 8: you again Monique. And as we bring this to a conclusion,

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Speaker 8: not everyone could be here. You'll recognize a lot of

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01:29:45,840 --> 01:29:48,720
Speaker 8: the folks in this final video tribute who wanted to

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Speaker 8: make sure that their voices were heard in this special

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Speaker 8: celebration of Jim Brown's life.

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Speaker 18: Money to you and your family.

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Speaker 33: Words can't describe the thoughts, the prayers, the love and

1390
01:30:04,160 --> 01:30:07,200
Speaker 33: respect I have for you, your family.

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Speaker 18: And for Jim.

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Speaker 33: That responsibility that he felt he had, that wisdom that.

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Speaker 1: He's imparted on me.

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Speaker 33: I have that almost that same sense of responsibility Jim,

1395
01:30:21,520 --> 01:30:26,160
Speaker 33: to kind of carry forward that message and that responsibility

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01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:29,080
Speaker 33: to communities that you started.

1397
01:30:29,760 --> 01:30:32,840
Speaker 34: We all know those accolades on the field, and he

1398
01:30:33,000 --> 01:30:35,719
Speaker 34: inspired me to want to be the best football player

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01:30:36,120 --> 01:30:38,080
Speaker 34: that I could be. When I became a Cleveland Brown,

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01:30:38,320 --> 01:30:40,200
Speaker 34: I just walked in the building and saw a picture

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01:30:40,240 --> 01:30:43,280
Speaker 34: of him and knew I wanted to leave a legacy

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01:30:43,800 --> 01:30:46,479
Speaker 34: just as he did. He inspired me to want to

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01:30:46,560 --> 01:30:50,080
Speaker 34: be good on and off the field, and that's why

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01:30:50,080 --> 01:30:52,920
Speaker 34: I'm truly grateful for him in his friendship, being a

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01:30:53,000 --> 01:30:55,320
Speaker 34: part of his life and him being a part of mine.

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01:30:55,800 --> 01:30:58,360
Speaker 4: He will forever be missed. Love you, Jim.

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01:30:59,280 --> 01:31:01,360
Speaker 34: I got a chance to work alongside Jim it Is

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01:31:01,400 --> 01:31:05,559
Speaker 34: American Foundation, one of the many ways that Jim gave

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01:31:05,640 --> 01:31:08,599
Speaker 34: back to his community. We became close and I looked

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Speaker 34: at him as the father figure I never had, and

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01:31:11,600 --> 01:31:15,040
Speaker 34: I cherished hours we spent at his house talking, playing

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01:31:15,120 --> 01:31:16,160
Speaker 34: backgamm in the chest.

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Speaker 35: He created in me a strong woman a strong black woman.

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Speaker 35: And he didn't do that by coddling me, making me

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01:31:27,880 --> 01:31:31,000
Speaker 35: feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

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01:31:31,600 --> 01:31:32,280
Speaker 6: I didn't have that.

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Speaker 18: Top of dad.

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01:31:33,120 --> 01:31:36,439
Speaker 35: I had the top of Dad say listen, the world

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01:31:36,560 --> 01:31:41,280
Speaker 35: is hard. You better find yourself and me whoever you're

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01:31:41,320 --> 01:31:45,920
Speaker 35: going to be. So thank you, Dad, That's what you

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01:31:46,040 --> 01:31:48,920
Speaker 35: mean to me. Strength and power.

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01:31:50,280 --> 01:31:54,080
Speaker 29: Thank you for teaching me to have a heart for

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01:31:54,400 --> 01:31:58,000
Speaker 29: not standing for injustice, to have the heart of an activist,

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01:31:58,400 --> 01:32:00,920
Speaker 29: to have the boldness to.

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01:32:01,000 --> 01:32:06,519
Speaker 36: Speak, and to know that my voice counts. Thank you

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01:32:06,680 --> 01:32:08,479
Speaker 36: for reminding me what a gift it is. I mean,

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01:32:08,560 --> 01:32:11,920
Speaker 36: we can play a small part in helping someone achieve

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01:32:12,000 --> 01:32:15,320
Speaker 36: their dreams or their goals, or to believe in themselves,

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01:32:15,439 --> 01:32:18,160
Speaker 36: or to love themselves unconditionally, or believe in what they

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01:32:18,280 --> 01:32:22,160
Speaker 36: have to offer as being so important that it's needed.

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01:32:23,080 --> 01:32:26,000
Speaker 37: What can one say by the Jim Brown, He's one

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01:32:26,000 --> 01:32:31,000
Speaker 37: of one, A legend, an actor, an activist, an athlete

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01:32:31,520 --> 01:32:35,599
Speaker 37: for America, an example for the youth and for the future.

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01:32:36,600 --> 01:32:39,400
Speaker 37: We salute you, We thank you for what you left us,

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01:32:39,840 --> 01:32:40,640
Speaker 37: and we carry them.

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Speaker 7: Thank you, sir, Jem had a tre medics impact on

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01:32:45,040 --> 01:32:45,559
Speaker 7: my life.

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01:32:45,600 --> 01:32:50,520
Speaker 9: I've learned so much from now, but as a tremendous player.

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Speaker 4: Leader of man and.

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01:32:55,040 --> 01:33:00,719
Speaker 1: Jenn has done so much to make life better socially

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01:33:01,080 --> 01:33:02,679
Speaker 1: and with the people at these helptures.

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01:33:02,720 --> 01:33:06,280
Speaker 29: A mayor, a mayor, I can program the educational nature

1443
01:33:06,320 --> 01:33:08,160
Speaker 29: of that that I've been through.

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01:33:08,120 --> 01:33:11,160
Speaker 35: In the use of our team has been very impighful.

1445
01:33:13,320 --> 01:33:15,280
Speaker 4: Just friendship and entering.

1446
01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:19,920
Speaker 9: Are have been really one of the highlights.

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01:33:19,560 --> 01:33:20,320
Speaker 11: Of my life.

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01:33:22,040 --> 01:33:22,200
Speaker 4: Too.

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01:33:22,520 --> 01:33:26,679
Speaker 28: Monique, and to the Brown family, we share your loss.

1450
01:33:27,680 --> 01:33:30,680
Speaker 28: We more in the passing of this great man, but

1451
01:33:30,840 --> 01:33:33,960
Speaker 28: he will never be forgotten. He will live on in

1452
01:33:34,080 --> 01:33:38,519
Speaker 28: our hearts, in our minds, and his legacy will never die.

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01:33:39,720 --> 01:33:43,280
Speaker 28: God bless you, and God bless the.

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01:33:43,360 --> 01:33:44,479
Speaker 7: Soul of Jim Brown.

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01:33:45,600 --> 01:33:50,120
Speaker 28: May he rest in peace. A job here on earth

1456
01:33:51,080 --> 01:33:51,559
Speaker 28: well done.

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01:33:53,280 --> 01:33:57,800
Speaker 22: Not only did he go into the community and work

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01:33:57,920 --> 01:34:02,360
Speaker 22: with games, work with people with prison records, work with

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01:34:02,520 --> 01:34:06,639
Speaker 22: people who had shot people and been shot. He worked

1460
01:34:06,680 --> 01:34:10,559
Speaker 22: with young men whose own families were afraid of them.

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01:34:10,880 --> 01:34:15,240
Speaker 22: He had them in his home. He did that because

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01:34:15,320 --> 01:34:19,800
Speaker 22: his emphasis was on action. As he told me in

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01:34:20,000 --> 01:34:24,320
Speaker 22: nineteen sixty eight, after all of the protests, it comes

1464
01:34:24,400 --> 01:34:25,679
Speaker 22: down to what are.

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Speaker 4: We going to do?

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01:34:27,560 --> 01:34:33,639
Speaker 22: He put action into the activist disposition among young Black

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01:34:34,040 --> 01:34:34,600
Speaker 22: men and.

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Speaker 7: Women in this country.

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Speaker 6: It's been twenty years and we have changed many, many lives.

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Speaker 18: And as I stand here right now, our people can

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Speaker 18: carry out the work.

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Speaker 4: They don't need me.

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01:34:47,840 --> 01:34:49,960
Speaker 18: And when I leave here, they can still carry out

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01:34:50,040 --> 01:34:50,920
Speaker 18: work and they don't need me.

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Speaker 8: He was the greatest athlete of the twentieth century. Brown

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01:35:09,120 --> 01:35:11,840
Speaker 8: was his surname, was the name of the team that

1477
01:35:11,960 --> 01:35:15,960
Speaker 8: he started for, also the color of his skin, and

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01:35:16,479 --> 01:35:19,680
Speaker 8: whether it's the impact in the African American community in

1479
01:35:19,800 --> 01:35:23,479
Speaker 8: Cleveland on the football players of many generations to follow,

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Speaker 8: Jim Brown's life and legacy was truly one of a kind.

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01:35:26,640 --> 01:35:30,240
Speaker 8: And if sometimes we are pros hyperbole, just think about

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01:35:30,920 --> 01:35:33,400
Speaker 8: the great people and the many different walks of life

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01:35:33,479 --> 01:35:36,040
Speaker 8: that came together over the last ninety minutes to celebrate

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01:35:36,600 --> 01:35:41,519
Speaker 8: his life. And tonight, as for the first time in

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Speaker 8: seventy eighty years, that the Cleveland Browns play a football

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01:35:45,080 --> 01:35:47,640
Speaker 8: game in Jim Brown's not here to see it, we

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Speaker 8: remember Jim Brown, and we do it on a night

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01:35:51,320 --> 01:35:55,439
Speaker 8: that we always celebrate the greatness of football and the

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01:35:55,560 --> 01:35:59,400
Speaker 8: greatest individuals of football. This Pro Football Hall of Fame

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01:35:59,479 --> 01:36:03,120
Speaker 8: game is always a celebration across the country for the

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01:36:03,240 --> 01:36:05,280
Speaker 8: game and the people we admire so much. Many of

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01:36:05,320 --> 01:36:08,040
Speaker 8: the Gold Jackets who are sitting seated here, thank you

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Speaker 8: all for being here.

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01:36:09,000 --> 01:36:10,519
Speaker 4: And adding to this day.

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Speaker 8: And it's only appropriate that we do it here the

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01:36:13,880 --> 01:36:17,839
Speaker 8: birthplace of football, to honor one of the greatest players

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Speaker 8: and men who have graced the National Football League, Jim Brown.

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Speaker 8: Thank you so much for being here sharing this day.

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01:36:25,320 --> 01:36:28,960
Speaker 8: Enjoy the day, and may we all remember Jim Brown.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 32: All right.

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01:36:34,320 --> 01:36:37,759
Speaker 2: That was a celebration of life. Jim Brown. What an

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01:36:37,840 --> 01:36:41,679
Speaker 2: incredible last hour or so down in Canton. Are honoring

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01:36:41,760 --> 01:36:44,400
Speaker 2: one of the greatest to have ever played the games,

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01:36:44,479 --> 01:36:45,800
Speaker 2: Zee and I will get you set for the Hall

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01:36:45,840 --> 01:36:47,840
Speaker 2: of Fame game coming up next to listen to Cleve

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Speaker 2: the Browns Daily on a fifty ESPN Cleveland.

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Speaker 2: And be part one of the most passionate fan bases

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Speaker 2: stay for the best chance is securing tickets for all

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Speaker 2: home games in future seasons. Don't miss out go to

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Speaker 2: to day. And now I'm joined by the man on

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Speaker 2: the call tonight along with the voice and Gid. We've

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Speaker 2: got a game, buddy.

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Speaker 30: We most certainly do tonight at eight o'clock. We got

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01:37:35,320 --> 01:37:37,840
Speaker 30: a game the Browns and the Jets. And while you know, look,

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01:37:38,560 --> 01:37:40,960
Speaker 30: we'll be honest about it. Everybody knows that this is not,

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01:37:41,439 --> 01:37:44,200
Speaker 30: you know, gonna beat Deshaun Watson against Aaron Rodgers. This

1523
01:37:44,320 --> 01:37:46,000
Speaker 30: is not a game for the starters. But what it

1524
01:37:46,160 --> 01:37:50,680
Speaker 30: is is an opportunity for younger players or veterans to

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01:37:51,200 --> 01:37:53,719
Speaker 30: state their case for either a role on the twenty

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01:37:53,760 --> 01:37:57,479
Speaker 30: twenty three Cleveland Browns, or a chance to make the

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01:37:57,560 --> 01:37:59,760
Speaker 30: twenty twenty three Cleveland Browns, or a chance to be

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01:37:59,800 --> 01:38:02,719
Speaker 30: on the practice squad for the twenty twenty three Clon Browns,

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01:38:02,800 --> 01:38:05,000
Speaker 30: or if that isn't on the car in the cards,

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01:38:05,240 --> 01:38:06,760
Speaker 30: you know, you're putting your tape out there for the

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01:38:06,800 --> 01:38:09,040
Speaker 30: rest of the NFL. So what's compelling to me about

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01:38:09,040 --> 01:38:11,240
Speaker 30: a game like this is that you've got guys who

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Speaker 30: are literally playing for their football lives in many cases

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Speaker 30: and so that to me is intriguing. That means you're

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Speaker 30: going to get, well, maybe it's not starter quality football

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01:38:20,240 --> 01:38:22,519
Speaker 30: necessarily in the National Football League, you're going to get

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Speaker 30: everything these guys have tonight, and that's always fun to watch.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think what makes it fun for us is

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Speaker 2: we have two young quarterbacks that we're excited to see

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Speaker 2: that we haven't and we're talking about two guys that

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01:38:34,120 --> 01:38:37,720
Speaker 2: the organization hopes one of them is the long term

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01:38:37,880 --> 01:38:40,599
Speaker 2: backup for Deshaun Watson and then hopefully can develop into

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01:38:40,600 --> 01:38:43,360
Speaker 2: an asset and maybe some sort of a trade piece

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01:38:43,479 --> 01:38:47,000
Speaker 2: down the line. And so with Kellen Mond with DTR

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01:38:47,120 --> 01:38:50,320
Speaker 2: you're going to get the opportunity of for them, this

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01:38:50,520 --> 01:38:53,639
Speaker 2: is a chance to state your case, the first big

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01:38:53,800 --> 01:38:56,320
Speaker 2: chance to and maybe the most conclusive chance too. So

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Speaker 2: I think to me that one sounds that seems really

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01:39:00,200 --> 01:39:02,000
Speaker 2: the thing that makes this exciting for me is you're

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01:39:02,000 --> 01:39:03,640
Speaker 2: going to get two young quarterbacks with a lot at

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01:39:03,680 --> 01:39:05,200
Speaker 2: steak tonight, a lot.

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01:39:05,120 --> 01:39:07,920
Speaker 30: At steak, and two young quarterbacks with a lot of experience.

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01:39:08,000 --> 01:39:10,240
Speaker 30: And now for Kellen Mond, you know, his first foray

1554
01:39:10,320 --> 01:39:13,080
Speaker 30: in the preseason with the Minnesota Vikings did not go

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01:39:13,280 --> 01:39:15,240
Speaker 30: so well. He did not have a lot of success

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01:39:15,320 --> 01:39:17,080
Speaker 30: with that team in the preseason, so he's looking to

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01:39:17,120 --> 01:39:18,360
Speaker 30: turn that around. But this is a guy who was

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01:39:18,880 --> 01:39:21,880
Speaker 30: very successful at Texas A and M, one of three

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01:39:21,960 --> 01:39:24,759
Speaker 30: quarterbacks in the history of that great conference, the SEC,

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01:39:24,920 --> 01:39:27,599
Speaker 30: with over nine thousand passing yards and fifteen hundred rushing yards.

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01:39:27,640 --> 01:39:29,360
Speaker 30: So he's a guy who can not only throw up,

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01:39:29,400 --> 01:39:31,200
Speaker 30: but he can make plays with his legs. And then

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01:39:31,280 --> 01:39:34,760
Speaker 30: Dorian Thompson Robinson, you know, just like Mond is the

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01:39:34,800 --> 01:39:37,160
Speaker 30: Texas A and M record holder and basically every category

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01:39:37,200 --> 01:39:39,799
Speaker 30: they have to offer for a quarterback, so is Dorian

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01:39:39,840 --> 01:39:43,200
Speaker 30: Thompson Robinson at UCLA, And so he's played a ton

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01:39:43,280 --> 01:39:44,920
Speaker 30: of football. Now I think he's a little bit more

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01:39:44,920 --> 01:39:47,040
Speaker 30: of a different style, a little bit better of a passer,

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01:39:47,200 --> 01:39:49,160
Speaker 30: a little bit more natural of a thrower, a little

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01:39:49,160 --> 01:39:52,160
Speaker 30: bit of a stronger arm, and also can make plays

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01:39:52,280 --> 01:39:54,120
Speaker 30: with his legs. I think last year had twenty seven

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01:39:54,120 --> 01:39:57,240
Speaker 30: passing touchdowns in twelve rushing touchdowns. So he is a

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01:39:57,320 --> 01:39:59,519
Speaker 30: playmaker and that's what's going to be fun in a

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01:39:59,560 --> 01:40:01,599
Speaker 30: game like this. These guys are gonna go out there

1575
01:40:01,600 --> 01:40:04,840
Speaker 30: and for DTR it's likely at some point he's gonna

1576
01:40:04,880 --> 01:40:06,800
Speaker 30: line up with Demetric Felton in the backfield, with him

1577
01:40:06,800 --> 01:40:09,360
Speaker 30: and center Tillman out wide, two guys that he played

1578
01:40:09,360 --> 01:40:10,880
Speaker 30: and with one in college.

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Speaker 9: And Dietrich Felton.

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Speaker 30: The year that Dimitric Felton led the Pac twelve in

1581
01:40:13,479 --> 01:40:16,680
Speaker 30: all purpose yards, caught fifty five balls from DTR, which

1582
01:40:16,720 --> 01:40:19,559
Speaker 30: set a USUL A running back record. So there's chemistry there.

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01:40:19,800 --> 01:40:21,960
Speaker 30: He's got chemistry, who said Tillman, who they went to

1584
01:40:22,080 --> 01:40:24,760
Speaker 30: high school, Bishop Gorman. So I'm kind of excited to see,

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01:40:25,200 --> 01:40:27,880
Speaker 30: you know, for DTR, the chemistry that he has with

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01:40:27,960 --> 01:40:29,479
Speaker 30: some of the guys, the fact that I just think

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01:40:29,520 --> 01:40:31,280
Speaker 30: he has a lot of natural leadership, He's got a

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01:40:31,320 --> 01:40:34,040
Speaker 30: not a lot natural swag about him. I'm excited to

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01:40:34,080 --> 01:40:36,120
Speaker 30: see him play. From the day that we drafted him,

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Speaker 30: as you know a Pac twelve officionado, especially when it

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01:40:38,600 --> 01:40:41,120
Speaker 30: comes to Pac twelve football, DTR is a guy that

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01:40:41,200 --> 01:40:42,640
Speaker 30: I liked, and so when we drafted him, I was

1593
01:40:42,680 --> 01:40:44,920
Speaker 30: like pretty pumped up about it, and so I'm excited

1594
01:40:44,920 --> 01:40:46,280
Speaker 30: to see him play. I've goten to know him, I

1595
01:40:46,280 --> 01:40:48,280
Speaker 30: think pretty well over the time, and you know when

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01:40:48,280 --> 01:40:50,719
Speaker 30: we were at the Greenbrier, he didn't get any reps

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01:40:50,880 --> 01:40:54,679
Speaker 30: the first four or five days, and it almost felt

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01:40:54,720 --> 01:40:56,519
Speaker 30: like maybe he wasn't even gonna get any reps until

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01:40:56,560 --> 01:40:58,519
Speaker 30: this week, and then all of a sudden they put

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Speaker 30: him in and on his first series, his last play

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01:41:02,240 --> 01:41:04,800
Speaker 30: was a role left throw forty five yards down the

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01:41:04,800 --> 01:41:06,680
Speaker 30: field to Austin Watkins for a touchdown. And he said

1603
01:41:06,720 --> 01:41:09,320
Speaker 30: to yourself, this kid's just he's just got it. He's

1604
01:41:09,360 --> 01:41:11,479
Speaker 30: just got that little bit that hit factor. And so

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01:41:11,920 --> 01:41:14,160
Speaker 30: I'm very excited to see him. As I mentioned, you know,

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01:41:14,240 --> 01:41:17,080
Speaker 30: CEDRII Tillman, I'm excited to see David Bell. I feel

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01:41:17,120 --> 01:41:20,080
Speaker 30: like in some ways we've taken David Bell kind of

1608
01:41:20,280 --> 01:41:23,120
Speaker 30: not for granted, but almost saying, ah, it's kind of

1609
01:41:23,280 --> 01:41:25,360
Speaker 30: a forgotten man, kind of a forgot man. This guy

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01:41:25,520 --> 01:41:28,360
Speaker 30: dominated the best competition that the Big Ten have to offer.

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01:41:28,680 --> 01:41:30,280
Speaker 30: He was the Big Ten receiver of the year. I

1612
01:41:30,320 --> 01:41:33,360
Speaker 30: think he had seventeen one hundred yard games while at Purdue,

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01:41:33,400 --> 01:41:36,960
Speaker 30: which is the school record. So he was incredibly productive.

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01:41:36,960 --> 01:41:38,640
Speaker 30: He was got the Browns were so excited to get

1615
01:41:38,720 --> 01:41:40,360
Speaker 30: last year, and you know, he ended up just right

1616
01:41:40,400 --> 01:41:43,120
Speaker 30: around two hundred yards receiving no touchdowns. But he'll get

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01:41:43,120 --> 01:41:44,360
Speaker 30: a lot of opportunities tonight.

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Speaker 9: As well.

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01:41:44,800 --> 01:41:46,280
Speaker 30: So I think the Browns will have a lot of

1620
01:41:46,320 --> 01:41:48,960
Speaker 30: talent out there. It's a deep roster and a young roster.

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01:41:49,040 --> 01:41:50,120
Speaker 30: That should be a lot of fun tonight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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01:41:51,040 --> 01:41:53,120
Speaker 2: And I think the young defensive guys who are trying

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01:41:53,160 --> 01:41:55,080
Speaker 2: to make a name for themselves. The fact that the Jets,

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01:41:55,120 --> 01:41:56,760
Speaker 2: I mean Zach Wilson's playing. He was a number two

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01:41:56,800 --> 01:41:58,880
Speaker 2: pick in the draft from a year ago. He's starting

1627
01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:00,599
Speaker 2: for the Jets tonight. So you're gonna get a real

1628
01:42:00,640 --> 01:42:02,360
Speaker 2: look if you're in that secondary, you're one of those

1629
01:42:02,360 --> 01:42:04,519
Speaker 2: young edge guys who's trying to make a name for themselves.

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Speaker 2: I think those are things to look forward to tonight.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna look forward to the call. I'm look forward

1632
01:42:08,320 --> 01:42:10,400
Speaker 2: to being there, look forward to hearing you and Jim

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01:42:10,479 --> 01:42:12,519
Speaker 2: my friend along with your Rod on the call. It's

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01:42:12,520 --> 01:42:14,439
Speaker 2: gonna be a fun night for Browns fans everywhere down

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Speaker 2: and Canton tonight.

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Speaker 4: My man.

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Speaker 30: Yeah, I can't wait. This is the kickoff of the

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Speaker 30: Hofs weekend. Baby baby oh, the.

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