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Joe Brown (NFL)

Full Name: Joe Brown Primary Position: DT
Height/Weight: 6' 6"/288 College: Ohio State University
Birthdate: March 5, 1977 High School: Catalina (Tucson, AZ)
Birthplace: Columbus, Ohio
Pro Experience: 1 year

Biography
Joe Brown (Joe Brown) was born on March 5, 1977 in Columbus, Ohio. After going to high school at Catalina (Tucson, AZ), Brown attended Ohio State University. Brown made his professional debut in the NFL in 2001 with the Seattle Seahawks. He played for the Seattle Seahawks for his entire 1 year career.

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Falcon/Buckeye/Seahawk Brown joins coaching ranks

At Catalina Foothills High School, Joe Brown played so well that he was recruited to Ohio State and became a starting lineman for the Buckeyes. He then played for the Seattle Seahawks and now, at 32, has become a college coach. Brown is in his first season on the staff at Arkansas State and is already on the recruiting trail. He has offered a visit to Salpointe tight end Sean Craig, who last week was offered a scholarship by Air Force and is also being recruited by Cal, Colorado and Boise State. ? At Arkansas State, Brown has been paired with former UA linebacker John Arce, now the strength-conditioning coach there.

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Ex-OSU football player seeks to open athletics to everyone
By Lori Kurtzman
The Columbus Dispatch Thursday February 28, 2013

ERIC ALBRECHT | DISPATCH
Joe Brown, a former Ohio State and NFL football player and a soldier in Iraq, plans to start an adaptive-sports program as Reynoldsburg?s new head of parks and recreation.

he new man in charge of Reynoldsburg?s fun is a hulking fellow, a 6-foot-6 figure with hands so big that the mayor?s wife felt her own disappear when she shook his. A guy his size must have a story, and Joe Brown certainly does.

Hints appear in the parks and recreation director?s office: in the soldier photos on his laptop, in the Ohio State football helmet on a table, in the framed No. 73 jersey on the wall.

Brown, 35, has built a career ? and a life, really ? out of shaping unlikely athletes. He?s hoping to do the same in Reynoldsburg.

?Joe has an interesting background,? said Mayor Brad McCloud. ?Everybody wants to talk about it.?

Joey Brown grew up throwing a ball against a wall in Tucson, Ariz. In third grade, he told his teacher he was going to be a major-league baseball player and an Army Ranger. In high school, his protective dad ? an Ohioan and a big Buckeyes fan ? loaded him up with padding and let him loose on the football field.

?I wasn?t instantly a star,? Brown confided.

He became one. In 1996, he moved to Columbus, where he played defensive tackle for the Buckeyes. He joined the Seattle Seahawks after he graduated in 2001 and was on and off the practice squad for two years. But Brown felt unsettled.

The United States was at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he was playing a game. He thought of his grandfather, who?d died as a POW in the Korean War. And so when he got sick ? valley fever, a flulike fungal infection that attacked his lungs and made him drop a quick 30 pounds ? he took it as a sign.

With his wife?s blessing, he joined the Army. He figured he?d deploy, fight and then return to the NFL.

The war had other ideas.

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