In reply to Elsie

I always thought of Fred Williamson as a footballer and an actor as Jim Brown Lite. I believe OJ and Fred copied the Jim Brown bop. Fred was always suave with a bop and a ready, big smile.

I was told he was a great businessman and commercially savvy.

In reply to VIX

Yeah, you never heard of Jim facting Brown. Sure. And that's why you took time out of your anti-merca day to offer an RIP.

In reply to Elsie


Aka “The Hammer?”


Fred used to star in those blackspoitation films of the 70’s

He and Pam Grier were regulars in those flicks like Three the Hard way and That man Bolt

In reply to Headley

True...!

Fred and Jim collaborated a lot in Hollywood, and chasing skirts...

O.J. was on a different plain...

In reply to imusic

Fred Williamson said that he never understood the term; 'Blaxploitation'...

Everybody got paid and all of the Checks cleared....

Those were the days of very little black power brokers in Hollywood... So much has changed these days...

In reply to Elsie
Notable that regarding walking the walk Jim Brown said when he approached OJ the man had absolutely no interest in the civil rights struggle

In reply to JahJah

I don't really follow America-only sports.
As a comparison? how many Americans grieved when Shane Warne died? Or even Pele and Maradona.

I'm sure Mr Brown was an important figure in his sport, whatever it is he accomplished. But I don't know, and am not really interested.
I never knew who he was, cuz I never followed that sport where men run around with a large leather egg under their armpits. I can't even name another famous "football" player. I wouldn't know any famous baseball plaer either. I'm sure the misfits and wannabe misfits would know though.

Would any random American have an inkling as to who IVA Richards is? Garry Sobers?

In reply to Elsie




Did you see Billy D.Williams dressed and profiling or Ron O'neal from 'Superfly' those pimps defined 'gangsta cool' bounce with canes, strutting and rapping in my teenage years

In reply to VIX

In short, you know nothing about sports or Black issues. Got it. Pele's death was pretty big news in the USA. He was instrumental in getting proper eyeballs on football in the USA. Are you well?

And what kind of 12 year old attitude is that? They don't like my sports so I am going to rebel against theirs...just because. Sobers, Richards, Warne, Maradona....really? We are talking Jim Brown, and not perhaps Lawrence Taylor. There's levels to this. I mean, tell me you are NOT Black without actually saying you aren't Black.

I don't follow American football religiously myself. I don't watch the Super Bowl. I just check the score, but so what? What's the American equivalent of you? Someone saying they don't follow some boring sport where a bunch of men stand around in a field all day watching some guy bending over a big stick?

You're taking this 'I don't care about American things' to a sillier level than before. You could have just ignored the thread instead of acting like an attention whore.

In reply to JahJah

If it makes you feel better, I know little or nothing about ice hockey and its players too.
How's your winter sports games going? Badminton? Tiddlywinks?

RIP Jim. One to whom "truly great" is easily applied.


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RIP Jim Brown. Read one of his books. Really admired the man.

In reply to imusic



Pam Grier once reported that she used to run a mile a day as exercise.

That appealed to me as a simple and effective way to stay active. I began to practice that in between other sports/exercises since my early twenties and it's still going well in my sixties.

BTW Pam was a member of the Sly and Family Stones group but it is not well know.

In reply to Headley

Pam had everyman's attention across race lines sexy lady

In reply to Castled

Could not say it better.

RIP Jim Brown- The greatest RB