[1] While in high school at Mendota, he was teammates with future Canadian Football League Hall of Famer Ray Jauch.
[2] After graduation from Mendota High School, Brown played college football at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He scored the winning touchdowns in an upset of number 4 ranked Army in 1959, and on the final play against Wisconsin that same year.
[9] He ranks fifth for career rushing yards (5,757),[10] trailing Adrian Peterson (11,747), Robert Smith (6,818), Dalvin Cook (5,993), and Chuck Foreman (5,887).
[9] He ranks ninth in career points scored (456 on 76 touchdowns), behind Fred Cox, Fuad Reveiz, Cris Carter, Ryan Longwell, Peterson, Randy Moss, Blair Walsh, and Gary Anderson.
[18] Brown is fifth in Vikings history in combined total yards gained (9,198), after Peterson (14,108), Carter (12, 410), Darrin Nelson (10,377), and Moss (9,670).
[23] His brain was donated to Boston University's Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, to determine if Brown had CTE, as he had suffered concussions during his playing days.