Finally, NFL Films is going to do a story on Paul Brown. He is truly one of the games greats. Lombardi is usually mentioned as the best of that era but that may be due to the fact that his success came at the same time NFL Films was born. While it also coincided with the firing of Paul Brown so he was not the subject of any NFL Films.

 

Here's a couple quotes from an article and then a link to the article.

 

People under the age of 30 don’t realize just about everything they love about football originated in Paul Brown’s head and he made it a reality,

 

The interesting thing about Paul Brown,” Zender said, “is that Browns highlights films in the AAFC were way ahead of any football team’s highlight films at the time. Browns highlights films in the 1940s were in all color. NFL teams didn’t catch up until the 1960s.

 

Of the 32 current NFL head coaches, 31 of them are direct or indirect descendants of the Paul Brown coaching tree. Chip Kelly is the only one who is not from the Paul Brown coaching tree.

 

 

Link: http://espncleveland.com/common/more.php?m=49&action=blog&r=17&post_id=45491

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

 

 

 

 

LOL! In this case I think the tree was on the top of a large hill and the apple is still rolling.

Will this be a"A Football Life"? Paul Brown was an innovator, I'm sure it'll be top notch. I liked their Lombardi piece.

^ Yes. Click on the link in post #1 for an article about it.