The Cleveland Browns announced that a statue of Jim Brown would be erected outside of FirstEnergy Stadium.  This announcement coming around Jim’s 80th birthday. The timetable for completion is sometime during the 2016-2017 season.

While his statistics as a player on the field make him arguably the greatest player to ever wear the Brown and Orange,  the myriad of incidents off the field involving violence towards women leaves many people – including yours truly – wondering whether or not the Browns truly thought this through.

A number of people are also of the opinion that nobody should have a statue in front of FirstEnergy Stadium until there’s one of the late great Paul Brown. I happen to be among those with that opinion. I also am of the opinion that Otto Graham, Marion Motley and Bill Willis need to be so honored before Brown because of their chronological order of service to the Browns organization. How soon other players will be so recognized by the organization remains to be seen.

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