[Phogge]

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.

Your dad was my favorite Stanford player ever. I have his Bowman '54 rookie card wearing the brown jersey. He had me at the 1953 UCLA game, my first, as he led the comeback to beat what was probably the second best team in the country. It was solidified at Big Game when he intercepted a Larson pass and took it all the way. Shame on Chuck Taylor for pulling much of his first string and Cal came back to tie and the Indians were kept out of the Rose Bowl. I was precocious about sports and not much in the classroom as a youth. My memory about those magical days in that gigantic stadium are crystal clear. Too bad I could't remember any math after long division.

[Phogge]

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.

Your dad was my favorite Stanford player ever. I have his Bowman '54 rookie card wearing the brown jersey. He had me at the 1953 UCLA game, my first, as he led the comeback to beat what was probably the second best team in the country. It was solidified at Big Game when he intercepted a Larson pass and took it all the way. Shame on Chuck Taylor for pulling much of his first string and Cal came back to tie and the Indians were kept out of the Rose Bowl. I was precocious about sports and not much in the classroom as a youth. My memory about those magical days in that gigantic stadium are crystal clear. Too bad I could't remember any math after long division.