CANTON, Ohio -- Hours before the Cleveland Browns were set to kick off the NFL preseason Thursday, they honored their greatest all-time player, Jim Brown.
The Browns and the Pro Football Hall of Fame commemorated the legendary running back with a "Celebration of Life." Brown, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1971, died in May at the age of 87.
"I never met a greater person," former Baltimore Ravens linebacker and fellow Hall of Famer Ray Lewis told the audience.
Several current Browns players and team officials attended the ceremony, held inside the Canton McKinley High School auditorium next to Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.