Pretty much every football fan knows Jim Brown. And pretty much every Kansas City Chiefs fan knows Len Dawson. Both are Pro Football Hall of Famers, but the two legends are surprisingly more connected than might first meet the eye.
Even though Len Dawson became a legend with the Kansas City Chiefs and legendary coach Hank Stram, his career actually didn’t begin with the team. It began with the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team that drafted him in the 1957 NFL draft.
But even that was merely by chance. According to Yahoo! Sports, Dawson would have been a Cleveland Brown thanks to Paul Brown’s infatuation with the Purdue quarterback.