By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com
It was the great Jim Brown, arguably the finest of running backs, who when asked from the distance of retirement to analyze his career said a person should be occupied by things other than trying to judge his own importance.
Brown was of a different era, a different time, when sport and humility were interwoven. He ran for a touchdown, handed the ball to an official and moved to the sideline, without self-promotional gyrations. He performed. We cheered.
Andre Agassi was born in 1970, five years after Brown left the NFL, and the connection is that there’s a disconnection, even if Agassi reached a point in his sport, tennis, that Brown reached in his, the top.
