At first glance NFL’s fullback Jim Brown seems like a football dream.  First, he is incredibly talented on the field. Check out these stats:

He averaged 104 yards a game, a record 5.22 yards a pop. He ran for at least 100 yards in 58 of his 118 regular-season games (he never missed a game). He ran for 237 yards in a game twice, scored five touchdowns in another game, and four times scored four touchdowns. He rushed for more than 1,000 yards seven times, scorching opponents for 1,527 yards in one 12-game season and 1,863 in a 14-game season.

Certainly an impressive record. During his NFL career, he averaged an amazing 5.2 yards per carry. He retired at the top of his game in 1965 to pursue an acting career. He starred in movies such as “The Dirty Dozen” and “Ice Station Zebra”.  Brown was also a bit of a philanthropist:

In the 1960s, Brown helped form the Negro Industrial Economic Union to assist black-owned businesses. In 1988, he created the Amer-I-Can program, an effort to turn gang members from destructive to productive members of society.

He has been an outspoken critic of the modern African-American athlete for what he perceives as a lack of involvement in the African-American community. “A Charles Barkley, a Magic Johnson, and a Michael Jordan are basically prima donnas,” Brown said.

So how does a man with this kind of record end up here? It seems that though Brown was interested in helping his fellow man, helping his fellow woman held no interest for him. Brown was often held accused for committing violent crimes against women. Strangely, almost none of these women pressed charges against him for his actions. One example:

An 18-year-old accused Brown of forcing her to have sex after giving her whiskey, but a jury found him innocent of assault and battery in the 10-day trial in 1965. He was accused of throwing his girlfriend from a balcony in 1968, but when the 22-year-old woman refused to name Brown as her assailant, the charge of assault with intent to murder was dropped. He was fined $300 for resisting a deputy.

So Jim Brown makes the Jock Strap Jerk list for being such a jerk against women, and for being such a class A jerk after putting himself out there as a philantropist.