Brown's history: Hugh McKinnis

Hugh McKinnis was a fullback for the Browns from 1973 through 1975. His best season was in '74 when he rushed for 519 yards and caught 32 passes. I remember McKinnis however not for his feats on the gridiron but for the fact that he lived on 37th Street in Lorain for the last two years he played for the Browns. My buddies and I often changed our walking route to school to assure that we would walk past McKinnis' house and occasionally we would get a glimpse of this football hero as he worked in his yard (way back then football players didn't make enough money to hire people to cut their grass). None of us had the courage to say hello to McKinnis but it was still pretty cool just to see a Browns player up close and it's a shame we never had the guts to talk to him because word around the neighborhood was always that he was a very nice guy, he probably would have appreciated the adulation of his young neighbors.