10 Things You Didn’t Know About Michael Brown, According To Family And Friends
He Was Known as “a Gentle Giant”
Despite being 6-foot-4 (NOT 6-foot-six as his father stated people claimed incorrectly) and nearly 300 pounds, Brown may have looked intimidating, but he was far from menacing, according to his uncle Charles Ewing. “We called him the gentle giant,” Ewing told The Washington Post. “He was a gentle giant.” Ewing would even claim that while Brown did get into football briefly, he was “too timid for the sport.”