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This James Brown is best known for being a long-time host of Fox NFL Sunday, along with Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, and Jimmy Johnson. The James Brown who has hosted Fox NFL Sunday is also a dedicated Christian who is ...
With a name like his, he has probably been mistaken for someone else often in his life. Some might have mistaken him for a famous soul singer who died not long ago. Others might think he was a running back for the Cleveland Browns. This James Brown, however, was a basketball player, not a football player, when he was a student at Harvard. This James Brown is best known for being a long-time host of Fox NFL Sunday, along with Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, and Jimmy Johnson. The James Brown who has hosted Fox NFL Sunday is also a dedicated Christian who is open about his faith, and he shows it not only by talking about it but also by being involved in various local and national causes.
After playing basketball in high school and college, Brown was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA and briefly played professional basketball. After leaving that, he worked for such companies as Xerox and Eastman Kodak before becoming a sports broadcaster. He started doing that after first broadcasting Washington Bullets basketball games for television. He has been a play-by-play announcer for NFL games and broadcasted the NBA finals and Winter Olympics. He has also been on various entertainment and sports shows for television. He became a minority owner of the Washington Nationals major league baseball team but is still best known for his work on Fox NFL Sunday.
Brown says every Sunday before the NFL football show he would pray, turning over his performance to God. He also often calls when he is on the road to have prayer with his mother and wife. James Brown, the dedicated Christian, says it is amazing how much worse things have gone when he isn?t ?prayed up.?