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You can think of one fullback who was better than John Coos.

From the Chris Wesleying podcast studio, it's Around the NFL.

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Dan Hansis, I got heroes here.

Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler.

I mean, yes, John Coon was a great fullback for the Packers.

But the greatest of all time, Jim Brown, who passed away late last week.

Mark Sessler, you had the obit up at NFL.com, and obviously you have your

Brown's history and whatnot.

So we're going to get to a bunch of stuff today, including we're going to do a little running back draft in honor of Jim Brown,

the greatest back of all time.

But curious, your thoughts on the loss of Brown at the age of 87.

I mean, I know I kind of hold back from mentioning my own writing and stuff on the show. It's not like the easiest thing

for me to do, but it was the one of the few pieces that I wrote. It was, you know, these obits

are written prior to so that they're ready to go. And I spent like three or four long summer

days researching like as deeply as I could, like, all these various

elements to Jim Brown, who, you know, it's almost like, where do you even begin?

Because I think he lived three or four completely different lives that all intersected.

But it's funny because I heard Gerald McCoy on Good Morning Football talk about the fact that he didn't, when he was young, he knew Jim Brown as an actor.

He didn't, and then his dad had to tell him as a young boy, like, no, this is actually like the greatest football player of all time who is now an actor, who was also an activist, who also did incredible work for the black athlete in general.

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