[Mick]

let's not ever forget how paul brown blackballed bill walsh out of pure jealousy.  that should tell you all you need to know about brown's character.

and, when my dad decided to quit paul brown's team, it was only then that brown, not wanting to suffer the ridicule of his peers over wasting the number one pick, put out the false narrative that bobby garrett couldn't cut it in the nfl because he stuttered.  a local los angeles sportswriter at the time who knew my dad and followed his career beginning in high school was so disgusted by this lie from brown that he called brown out as a liar in his sports column.

https://web.archive.org/web/201306190548...-walsh22/3

Not everyone in the NFL had such faith in Walsh's decisions. He was a Cincinnati Bengals assistant for seven seasons under legendary coach Paul Brown but was passed over in favor of Bill "Tiger" Johnson when Brown retired in 1975. Walsh, who subsequently resigned, said Brown "worked against my candidacy" to be a head coach anywhere in the league.

"All the way through I had opportunities, and I never knew about them," he said. "And then when I left him, he called whoever he thought was necessary to keep me out of the NFL."

Was it jealousy?

"I can't say," said Walsh, who didn't get his first NFL head-coaching job until he was 47. "He did that to other people too, it wasn't just me. But I was probably the most blatant one."

Try this, from about 14:30 on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd_CnRkKOqA

[Mick]

let's not ever forget how paul brown blackballed bill walsh out of pure jealousy.  that should tell you all you need to know about brown's character.

and, when my dad decided to quit paul brown's team, it was only then that brown, not wanting to suffer the ridicule of his peers over wasting the number one pick, put out the false narrative that bobby garrett couldn't cut it in the nfl because he stuttered.  a local los angeles sportswriter at the time who knew my dad and followed his career beginning in high school was so disgusted by this lie from brown that he called brown out as a liar in his sports column.

https://web.archive.org/web/201306190548...-walsh22/3

Not everyone in the NFL had such faith in Walsh's decisions. He was a Cincinnati Bengals assistant for seven seasons under legendary coach Paul Brown but was passed over in favor of Bill "Tiger" Johnson when Brown retired in 1975. Walsh, who subsequently resigned, said Brown "worked against my candidacy" to be a head coach anywhere in the league.

"All the way through I had opportunities, and I never knew about them," he said. "And then when I left him, he called whoever he thought was necessary to keep me out of the NFL."

Was it jealousy?

"I can't say," said Walsh, who didn't get his first NFL head-coaching job until he was 47. "He did that to other people too, it wasn't just me. But I was probably the most blatant one."

Try this, from about 14:30 on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd_CnRkKOqA