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Paul Brown

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Football Coach

The Resume

    (September 7, 1908-August 5, 1991)
    Born in Norwalk, Ohio
    Head coach for Ohio State (1941-43), Great Lakes Blue Jackets (1944-45), Cleveland Browns (1946-62) and Cincinnati Bengals
    Namesake for the Browns
    Won four AAFC Championships (1946-49) and three NFL Championships (1950, 1954-55)
    Three-time Sporting News Coach of the Year (1949, 1951, 1953)
    Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame (1967)

Why he might be annoying:

    He turned down a chance at a Rhodes scholarship to coach at a prep school.
    He claimed that he did not want the Cleveland franchise named after him, but he vetoed the fans' top non-Browns choice, the Panthers. (Ostensibly on the grounds that an old team by that name had been a failure.)
    He tried to control his players to the extent of demanding that they not have sex after Tuesday during the football season.
    He was fired by Browns owner Art Modell for making trades without consulting Modell.
    He was so bitter about his firing that he refused to even attend Browns games as a spectator.
    Bill Walsh claimed that when he was Brown's assistant, Brown kept him in the dark about other teams' interest in hiring him as a head coach.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was the first head coach to win both a college and an NFL championship.
    His football innovations included psychological and IQ testing of players, grading game films, the reserve 'taxi squad,' and designing the draw play.
    He and Dan Reeves of the Rams re-integrated pro football after a 12-year period without any black players in the NFL.
    Jim Brown said about his approach, 'Paul Brown integrated pro football without uttering a single word about integration. He just went out, signed a bunch of great black athletes, and started kicking butt. That's how you do it.'
    Bill Walsh called him 'the father of the modern game of football' and 'probably the greatest teacher the game has ever seen.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 69 Votes: 43.48% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 17 Votes: 41.18% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying