Browns to get their 15 minutes in Hollywood

That’s funny, and now he has an AA rule named after him? I was watching one of those as well, and this episode was pumping up Art Rooney as a civil rights hero. Maybe a different Rooney? I think I like your version better.

Whatever the Rooneys did. I know plenty about Brown’s attitude towards racism – he wanted to disregard it whenever possible. It wasn’t really like he was on a mission to integrate blacks into mainstream society, but he seemed to just believe a man is a man, and a player is a player, and all are entitled to human dignity regardless of color or age.

whoever the Rooney was in charge of the Steelers at that time had a black player but fired him when he found out he was married to a white woman.

Considering there have only been three Rooneys in charge since the beginning of the team, Art, Dan, and Art II, it would have to be one of them. Dan is the one that had the Rooney rule named after him, so I would guess you are referring to Art Rooney, and I would love to see some kind of documentation or any information backing up your story, because it sounds to me like complete bullshit made up by you.

I did try to research to see if there might be some truth to it, but I can’t find anything. I did find this interesting nugget though.

“Raymond Howard Kemp (April 7, 1907 – March 26, 2002) was an American football player and a charter member of the Pittsburgh Pirates football team (now called the Pittsburgh Steelers). He was also the first African-American player in the team’s history. In fact in 1933, he was the only African-American on the team and only one of two black players in the entire National Football League.

Kemp joined the team and became one of only two black players in the league, the other being Joe Lillard of the Chicago Cardinals. Kemp played in the Pirates’ first three games against, the New York Giants, Chicago Cardinals and Boston Redskins. After the Redskins game, Kemp was cut by the team. He appealed the cut to Art Rooney, but Rooney refused to go over the head of the coach, Jap Douds, who as a player-coach, also played Kemp’s position. However a Pittsburgh Courier story on November 14, 1933 claimed that Kemp was placed on the reserve list and quit, although fans had rated him highly. Art Rooney stated that he was limited to having only 22 players on the roster and preferred to keep the more experienced players.

Kemp then went back to his job in the steel mill and the Pirates went 2-5 over the next seven games. He was named to the starting lineup after only two days of practice and played the entire game at tackle against the New York Giants, who would defeat the Pirates 27-3 at the Polo Grounds.

However the Friday before the Pirates’ game in New York, Kemp was asked to leave the hotel housing the Pirates’ players. Walter Francis White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, suggested he file a discrimination suit. However Kemp refused, fearing the backlash that would occur to Art Rooney, who had given him a chance at an NFL career. That game against the Giants was the final game of Kemp’s brief career in the NFL. The next season he was hired as the head football coach at Bluefield State College.

With the exits of Kemp and Lillard, the NFL would not have any black players until 1946."

Also it is physically impossible by all laws of science to portray Art Modell as anything but an ass.

I knew a guy who tried to disprove this theory once.

Then his head exploded from the epic failure.

The Express was so sad. I wish it wasn’t a true story.

I don’t think they’ll go that far into the present day if they’re making a movie on Jim Brown’s life story.

He loves to tell the stories of all the times Jim Brown was arrested and nothing ever happened.

This is just a guess, but Jim Brown probably got harassed a lot for not doing anything.

I think Darth Sidious would be perfect for Modell.