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    BROWNS FANATIC

    Dec 07, 2021 8 minutes
    BY GREG BATES
    (PHOTO CREDIT: RAY PRISBY)
    (PHOTO CREDIT: RAY PRISBY)

    There are two knocks that Ray Prisby will never forget. The first one happened last November when Prisby’s childhood idol Jim Brown showed up at his house. Prisby, a diehard Cleveland Browns fan and team memorabilia collector, was named a finalist for the 2021 Ford Hall of Fans and Brown wanted to share the good news.

    Three months later, while in Tampa for Super Bowl LV, Prisby — waiting anxiously in a conference room to find out if he had been chosen to the exclusive fan hall of fame — received another knock. On the other side of the door was Pro Football Hall of Fame President and CEO David Baker. He had the unique honor of letting Prisby know he would be entering the Ford Hall of Fans.

    “I hadn’t gotten over Jim Brown coming over to my house,” joked Prisby, a Youngstown, Ohio native. “For me, Jim Brown is/was/still is everything. When it comes to football, there’s Jim Brown and then everybody else pick a seat behind him. Just the fact that he came to my house, just right now talking about it, I still get excited.

    “The fact that now Mr. Baker comes and gives me the

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