Part of me thinks that this is a ridiculously frivolous law suit that can only hurt the man's reputation that gamer's using the All-Brown team in Madden are paying homage to.

On the other hand, he has a point. If today's players are being paid for their likeness to appear within a videogame, than why should the athletes of yesteryear not be making the same?

What a fag.

Pay him what his likeness would have been worth at that point in his career.

$5000

JB was far from a fag in his playing days.....

He could have kicked your ass, your mama's ass, your daddy's ass, your town sheriff's ass, your HS football coach's ass - all at the same time. In fact, he could have anhialated your whole town, no questions about it.


Whether or not this video game should give him some compensation for using his likeness (brown folks were called Negroes in the 60's for chrissakes) and number for their All Browns team, I think some liberal judge should decide. Just don't be calling the LT2 from the 60's a fag.

I'll call that piece of human trash anything I damn well please. I could care less what his stats were. A poor human being is a poor human being..or should I be worshipping OJ Simpson too?

What did Jim Brown do? Did I miss something?

You're right Sarge.....

Equate an NFL great whose politics you disagree with to a freakin MURDERER

EA has the funds. They ought to give him a little if they're going to blatantly use his image and likeness for commercial gain

Personally, I think Jim Brown is a piece of shit, politically. You know what, though? He was an awesome NFL player and deserves what he can get from multi-million corporations that use his image and stats to make money.

Is Jim Brown the power to the people, the white man is keeping us down, kill whitey type?

Hey...you opened the can of works guy. Your statement was basically that I should forget what he has done in his life and just look at his on the field performance. In that sense, I should just judge OJ based on his on field performance.

Did he trademark his name and image? Has he collected royalties from other video games in the past?

Lets look at this:

You find me where that uses Jim Brown's direct name and likeness. Sure, you can assume (and be right) that is is supposed to be Jim Brown, but it does not SAY it.

Very well, but dont ever think you or anyone else is going to tell me what I will or will not say. Your entitled to say whats on your mind as much as anyone else is.

You can call the guy 'fag' all you want. Doesn't make it true.....

Sorry I brought your mother, football coach *gasp* and others into the argument.

The guy we're talking about was once the absolute best at his position, regardless of what the times were like back then, what his politics have become, or how stupid he has acted since.

Last I heard, he didn't chop his wife's head 3/4 of the way off or arrange armed robberies of memorabilia collectors in Vegas motel rooms.

I have to believe if your brother or cousin was in Jim Brown's shoes, you would be on their side. No matter what they had become since their illustrious career.

Maybe not

Excellent cheap shot. Almost Zepp like in its delivery. Extra points for bringing dead relatives into it.

Has nothing to do with the questions asked in the reply. Nice side step of the argument.

Another excellent side step. Your the one who made it out to sound like we should ignore what anyone who plays on a football field does or did off of it. I'll make sure to get your number to Pacman...he may need you.

I have to believe if my brother or cousin was in his shoes they would have better protected their intellectual property long ago. Perhaps some of your generation missed the boat on the modern world.

You almost give me the feeling I should bow before you because your 54 years old and us young whipper snappers don't have a clue. Not going to happen.

Hmmm.....

You bring up the age issue. Guess my intellectual and moral superiority is giving you a complex. So you blame it on age.

Bow, buddy

Here it is. Is EA using his likeness? If the player looks like him, then sure, he has a point. But if they didn't use his name, and the player doesn't look like him, then he has no case. He doesn't own the rights to the number 32. The Browns own the right to his jersey number. If his only comparison is that the video game player is black and that it has the #32, then he has no case. His likeness is literally his physical likeness and any copyrighted insignia's, photos, or other intellectual property. The Browns franchise and the #32 are not his intellectual property, there are the intellectual property of the Cleveland Browns. Personally, sounds like he's finally burned all of his bridges and is running out of money.

Could someone please fill me in on what Jim Brown has done that has scarred his reputation so badly.

I think it has something to do with the movie Mars Attacks (really I don't know either)