The Larry Brown(s) link to this Carolina/Denver Super Bowl

The nomadic basketball coach Larry Brown “has nothing” on my wandering, tangential mind.

Only I could put out these notes and maybe only I would care about them.

Larry Brown the coach is the main figure but I will cite at least four other Larry Browns in sports.

A big link between today’s competing markets (so much of it is marketing) of Carolina and Denver is coach Larry Brown.

Neither region has ever won an NBA crown and nary an ABA one, despite Brown coaching each region’s ABA team to the league’s best record.

Brown did so with the 1973 Carolina Cougars and the Denver Nuggets in both 1975 and 1976.

On all three occasions Brown and the Carolina or Denver team failed to win the title, despite having the best record in the league.

The best Larry Brown, was a truly great running back, until “Wash” Redskins’ coach George Allen ran him into the ground with far too many carries in Allen’s “ground” attack.

That Larry Brown and the Redskins lost in the great back’s lone Supe appearance.

Another Larry Brown, playing for the Dallas Cowboys was the Super Bowl MVP in the Cowboys’ “no cover” win vs the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1995 season game.

I recall an infielder named Larry Brown and a hockey defenseman with the same name. Alas what good to know that “Larry Brown,” was the answer to a name that played in all four major sports.

Coach Larry Brown, denied those three times with the league’s best record won titles in both the NBA (2004 Detroit Pistons) and college (1988 Kansas University), without achieving the best mark.

In fact Brown’s Kansas title team holds the record for the most losses by an NCAA basketball champion (11).

John Forbes Nash and his “Beautiful Mind” passed on in 2015.