@tiamat63 said:

I read this line this back to myself, but using a score from the Lion King....          Yes, it fit quite well. 

You got to watch that movie T?  The Warden told me it's only appropriate for children over 55 years of age.  You bastard - I've got 3 cups of coffee in me and I gotta wait 9 months to bust your balls back...

@flugel said:

You don't need to Google just listen to Flugel.  It's all in the 1st post of this thread that's only 1 sentence long. 

Yup, according to my neurologist pal ALS is a pretty nasty way to check out. No cure, and your muscles sequentially fail. The bad part is your cognitive functions remain normal right up to the end. Want to go on a respirator when you can't breathe on your own anymore?

@flugel said:

You don't need to Google just listen to Flugel.  

I read this line this back to myself, but using a score from the Lion King....          Yes, it fit quite well. 

@ghoolie said:

 I am too lazy to go Google, was he sick?

You don't need to Google just listen to Flugel.  It's all in the 1st post of this thread that's only 1 sentence long. 

@orion said:

I'm finally going to comment on this.

61 years old.  One of my best friends only made it to 57.  My brother, 59.  Another best friend, 62.  My life-long best friend (Vikings fan), 63.

WTF.  I thought we were supposed to be living LONGER in this day and age...

SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, fire up that CRIPSR thing!!  

I recall hearing something once that ex-pro football players have one of the shortest life expectancies of any profession, not too far behind coal miners. 

Wrap your head around that for a second. 

61 years old.  One of my best friends only made it to 57.  My brother, 59.  Another best friend, 62.  My life-long best friend (Vikings fan), 63.

WTF.  I thought we were supposed to be living LONGER in this day and age...

SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, fire up that CRIPSR thing!!  

@hoorta said:

Let's just hope mild mannered Myles turns out better.

Reggie White was mild mannered.

Zombo said:

I was at that game. They lined Sapp up at fullback and he plowed straight over Brown.

Ya, Courtney was an athletic freak, but he was softspoken and didn't have that killer instinct. Shouldn't have been taken #1 overall. I wanted Arrington, Penn State's brash leader that draft, he was a great one but career curtailed to injury.

Zombo

Let's just hope mild mannered Myles turns out better.

@hoorta said:

Damn, you made me use Google? It was Warren Sapp.   http://www.news-herald.com/article/HR/20021014/NEWS/310149988

I was at that game. They lined Sapp up at fullback and he plowed straight over Brown.

Ya, Courtney was an athletic freak, but he was softspoken and didn't have that killer instinct. Shouldn't have been taken #1 overall. I wanted Arrington, Penn State's brash leader that draft, he was a great one but career curtailed to injury.

Zombo

@boo-fagley said:

Did his name have these letters G H O O L I E?

Damn, you made me use Google? It was Warren Sapp.   http://www.news-herald.com/article/HR/20021014/NEWS/310149988

@hoorta said:

I don't remember who said it, but Brown got called out for being "soft".

Did his name have these letters G H O O L I E?

@boo-fagley said:

Brown showed spurts of being great as I recall. Injuries did him in as I look back.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BrowCo22.htm

Then he's an "injury bust", not as bad as Ki-Jana Carter. But certainly not worth the #1 overall pick. You expect a multi time pro bowl HOFer on the level of a Lawrence Taylor drafting that high. It happens, Aundray Bruce is another example. Also way back we drafted a high potential wr by the name of Lawyer Tillman, who couldn't stay healthy. I just hope Corey Coleman isn't on a similar career track.

I don't remember who said it, but Brown got called out for being "soft".

@hoorta said:

Courtney Brown never lived up to his draft status. Warren was a journeyman at best, mostly not with the Browns. And I haven't forgotten we took " Spare Change" with Ladanian Tomlinson and Richard Seymour still on the board either. MHO rates as a top 5 Browns draft screw up.

Brown showed spurts of being great as I recall. Injuries did him in as I look back.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BrowCo22.htm

@diehardbrownsfan said:

Big Money Warren sucked.

5 sacks and 31 tackles his first season is good. Then, another 5 sack season and 3 - 4 sack seasons. Was he worth the 3rd pick in the draft? No.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WarrGe20.htm

@the-gipper said:

No he wasn't not for us he wasn'tNo he wasn't not for us he wasn't

You can say that again.

@kvoethe said:

Best catch of a throwaway pass ever.  Will always be remembered for that.

QB Joe Cool never saw his pass or completion.....well except on the countless replays.

@boo-fagley said:

Johnson, Northcutt, Davis and Morgan.

All great WRs. Add Andra Davis, Courtney Brown. Warren was a very decent DT. 

Courtney Brown never lived up to his draft status. Warren was a journeyman at best, mostly not with the Browns. And I haven't forgotten we took " Spare Change" with Ladanian Tomlinson and Richard Seymour still on the board either. MHO rates as a top 5 Browns draft screw up.

@boo-fagley said:

Johnson, Northcutt, Davis and Morgan.

All great WRs. Add Andra Davis, Courtney Brown. Warren was a very decent DT. 

No he wasn't not for us he wasn'tNo he wasn't not for us he wasn't

Dwight Clark was a helluva player, but he was not a good GM. He wasn't even hired to be the GM, but because the NFL put the Browns behind the 8 ball by giving them virtually no time to start their franchise, he kind of fell into the position. 

@fairhooker11 said:

unlike  Matt Millen

Johnson, Northcutt, Davis and Morgan.

All great WRs. Add Andra Davis, Courtney Brown. Warren was a very decent DT. 

@boo-fagley said:

Clark sure had an eye for WRs.

unlike  Matt Millen

@mjp28 said:

For all of the pretty much flop #1 picks they were getting somewhat near competitive football but all in all wasn't up to the old BROWNS football standards and just tanked after that.

I wasn't really totally impressed with coach Palmer either, don't remember who's decision that was.

I also remembered "Charmin' Carmen" Policy, his house was about 1.5 miles from mine when I first moved to Boardman, my cousin did business with his former law partner.

All in an era some BROWNS fans don't want or just care that much about remembering. 

Clark sure had an eye for WRs.