The anniversary of The Trade came and went for the 43rd time, which turned out to be news to Bill Bergey when reached Monday in suburban Philadelphia. But he could tell you what he was doing the day he found out Paul Brown died 25 years ago.
“I was on a fishing trip with a bunch of guys in Quebec,” Bergey says Monday morning. “One of the guys came up late so I said to him, ‘What’s new back in the States?’ just being cute because we’d been up there a couple of weeks. He said, ‘Nothing.