Permanently Leaving the NFL
The NFL threatened suspension and a financial penalty. Brown didn’t like the unreasonable demand, so he officially retired from sports and confirmed it with the mainstream press at the time. Sometimes, people wonder what he might have accomplished as a football pro!
Charles Bronson’s Father Was a Miner
In one of the backstories for The Dirty Dozen, art imitated real life. Charles Bronson played the Joseph Wladislaw character and claims that his father actually worked in the Poland mines for a while. It’s a bit uncanny!
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