Wilbert Scott: “ I got my first start when the starting linebacker Mike Henry got hurt. That was against Cleveland and Jim Brown!
How did you do?
I did ok. I had a few of what you call bounce tackles. Where you bounce off of him but you slow him down for other guys to get there!”
Frank Atkinson: “Brady Keys – we played Cleveland and he made the mistake that game of trying to tackle Jim Brown and ended up in the hospital that week”
Frank Varricione: “Brown was the greatest NFL player every to live. He was an unbelievable runner. Powerful. No one person could bring him down, unless maybe they tripped him. He had great speed too. In Cleveland they had a guy who had Olympic speed at the one-hundred yard dash and he kept up with him!”
Brady Keys: “I used to love playing the Browns and Jim Brown. He and I had a grudge like you would not believe. Lots of people were scared to tackle him – and he hurt me once. But he used to call me the Black Missile. We fought a lot then but became big friends after we were done playing football.”
Bob Sherman: “I was playing free safety that day and it was just before halftime – I knew that they loved to screen to him in situations like that. I read it right away and came up quickly and really gave him my best shot – we hit head on, he spun me off in a 180 and rambled on down to the two yard line. Buddy Parker grabbed me at halftime screaming “can’t you tackle anybody”.
Bill Butler: “The only dominant team then was Cleveland – mostly because they had Jim Brown.”
Charley Scales: “I went to Cleveland playing with Jim Brown and those guys. I played with John Henry, Stautner and Layne. The Cleveland Plains Dealer wrote an article saying I looked like Floyd Patterson and hit like him too, because of my blocking. Jim Brown never liked to block anybody”
