St. Louis Rams center Jason Brown has left
the NFL to pursue farming:
“My agent told me, ‘You’re making the biggest
mistake of your life,’” Brown told CBS. “And I looked right back at him and I
said, ‘No I’m not. No I’m not.’”

Back in 2009, Brown signed a $37.5 million
dollar contract with the Rams, making him the highest paid center in all of
football. He earned about $25 million of that contract and decided to leave the
final year’s $12.5 million on the table. Instead, he bought 1,000 acres of
farmland in North Carolina.
Brown is doing this to help the less
fortunate. He grows sweet potatoes and other vegetables and donates his harvest
to food pantries. According to the New & Observer, he has given away 46,000
pounds of sweet potatoes and 10,000 pounds of cucumbers this fall.
Keep in mind the fact that Brown left the NFL
at 29. He was going to get another pretty large contract to play for a few more
years. Instead, in 2012 Brown began watching YouTube videos about farming in order
to learn how to farm.

He calls his farm the “First Fruits Farm.”
And it’s not only fruits and vegetables—congratulations are in order:
Jason Brown, the former NFL star who retired
from football so he could grow crops to feed the hungry, delivered his own
child Tuesday at his Louisburg home.
Brown and his wife, Tay, had planned to have
help for the home birth, but the mother went through labor so quickly that
Lunsford Bernard Brown III made his debut before the reinforcements could
arrive.
Everything I’ve read about him so far is
pretty great. So this Thanksgiving, raise a glass to Jason Brown and the many
other kind souls who put people ahead of themselves.
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