2009-07-04T00:00:40-04:00 2009-07-02T11:35:32-04:00 2 2009-07-02T11:35:32-04:00 1 1 10 2009-07-04T00:00:40-04:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/265/50/thumb/Ric_20Flair_20Old_20Pic.bmp 1439 NC Slick Ric is DaMoFo Southern Pines 26590 3 I wonder if Jim Brown would still want Tiger to &quot;speak out&quot; if Tiger publicly called for an end to welfare programs, &quot;affirmative action&quot;, race based college admissions, and told black people to stop blaming everyone else for their own failures as parents and citizens? Eisen is right, I watch sports to get away from the news. Plus so many athletes, NFL ers at least, can barely spell their own names. Does anyone really want to hear a political lecture from Emmitt Smith or Mike Irvin? 5969278 2009-07-02T11:46:14-04:00 2 XX berzirk No City 740081 1 Maybe Jim Brown should speak out on violence against women. Oh wait, then he'd be a glaring hypocrite. http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1025537/index.htm Tiger donates MILLIONS of dollars to charities, some of which involve promoting golf in the inner cities. And let's not be silly, inner city is a euphamism for densely populated black neighborhoods. The difference between Tiger and Jim Brown isn't the cause, it's the fact that Tiger isn't a media **** who needs to have a camera crew following him around to give something back to the world. I'd like a story to break where the Bill Gates and Tiger Woods-style charitable celebrities, all step up and tell Jim Brown to clean his own house before he starts trying to clean others. 5954436 2 <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="javascript:CNN_DPAudio('http://ht.cdn.turner.com/si/danpatrick/audio/2009/07/02/DP-Rich_Eisen-07-02-09_Interview.mp3')"><img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/.element/img/4.0/sect/danpatrick/listen_segment_148x16.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="148" height="16" /> </a></p> <p>The NFL Network's <strong>Rich Eisen</strong> joined the show to discuss Jim Brown's comments on Tiger Woods.</p> <p>Eisen understands why Brown ripped Woods for not taking a stand on social issues. But Eisen says it's a "completely different time" and guys like Woods have more at stake financially.</p> <p>Eisen also thinks that a lot of people don't want to hear politics from sports stars. Sports is supposed to be an escape.</p> <p>"They just want their sports. They don't want to hear about it. They don't want to know about it. They get that stuff from other channels," Eisen said of athletes' politics.</p> <p>Eisen and Dan agreed the era of the Muhammad Ali's, Billy Jean King's and Jim Brown's are over in a sense. Eisen can't see an athlete making that kind of stand.</p> 69321 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/397/2/thumb/Perloff.jpg 540 NY Andrew Perloff New York 3992