Mike Brown Remembers Jim Brown: 'The Best Runner I Ever Saw'
Geoff Hobson
Mike Brown, who knew Jim Brown since that spring of 1957 when they both left college and saw most of his career up close, had no doubt Friday afternoon when told the NFL icon had passed.
"The best runner I ever saw," said Mike Brown, the Bengals president who has seen all of them before and after. "He was an extraordinary athlete. He was a big man. But very fast. He was 228 (pounds), 232 maybe