Mike Freeman’s 10-Point Stance: Ali and Brown’s Fearlessness Defined Their Era

June 8, 2016   ·   Mike Freeman   ·   Jump to comments

1. The NFL needs another Muhammad Ali-Jim Brown duo
One way to truly understand what Muhammad Ali meant to the world is to understand his relationship with NFL great Jim Brown. 
Brown—one of the greatest athletes of all time, and definitely the best football player of all time—always believed he could have been a world-class boxer. And he probably could have been. Ali, meanwhile, was always infatuated with football and lived the sport vicariously through Brown.
For those too young to understand, for a spell in the 1960s, Brown was even more famous than Ali. After quitting football at his athletic apex, he became Hollywood's first black action movie hero. He and Raquel Welch had the first interracial love scene in movie history. He was in one of the best war movies of all time, The Dirty Dozen.
Quitting football when he did would be like Tom Brady retiring in 2004 to star in a Batman movie.
Then Ali would become, well, Ali. His fame and imp...

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