It didn’t matter how long it took Floyd Little to try and convince Jim Brown to come to the Plaza 44 statue unveiling. It took “weeks, months” and as of Monday, Little had yet to hear back from the fellow Hall of Famer.
On Saturday, the process it took to bring Brown to Syracuse was irrelevant. Flanked by his family, and throngs of Syracuse supporters and trustees braving the sub-freezing temperatures, Brown craned his neck to look at the statue positioned above him.
“It’s really something else to have these kind of things that represent goodness and education and success,” Brown said.