Orlando Brown (American football)
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| Born | December 12, 1970 Washington, DC |
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| Year(s) | 1993–2005 | ||
| College | South Carolina State & Central State | ||
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| Games played | 129 | ||
| Games started | 119 | ||
| Fumble recoveries | 3 | ||
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Orlando Claude Brown (born December 12, 1970 in Washington, D.C.) is a retired American football player who played offensive tackle. He attended H.D. Woodson Senior High School. He was released by the Baltimore Ravens in March, 2006, and previously played for the Cleveland Browns. He attended South Carolina State University.
He is known for an incident during a pro football game at home in Cleveland on December 19, 1999 against the Jacksonville Jaguars in which he was accidentally hit in the eye by a penalty marker weighted with BB's thrown by referee Jeff Triplette. Triplette immediately apologized to Brown, who was then tended to by the medical staff. A few minutes later, when play was about to resume, Brown was being taken to the locker room when he pushed past the trainers, ran out on the field and shoved Triplette, knocking him to the ground. Brown was ejected from the game and subsequently suspended by the NFL, although the suspension was lifted when his injury did not heal. The next year, Brown was cut from the Browns, and he sued the NFL for damages. Brown was forced to sit out three seasons because of the eye injury and settled with the NFL for a reported amount of $25 million.
During the 2003 season while playing for the Ravens, Brown started at both offensive and defensive tackle in a game against the Oakland Raiders.
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