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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeXtreme, post: 1265126, member: 41"] If the number was kept active to honor Jim Brown, and if players didn't want to wear the number, is that honoring Brown or insulting him? The number was vacant from 1970-1977. You'd think that a running back like Archie Griffin, Tony Dorsett, Earl Campbell, Billy Sims, etc... would have begged for the chance to honor Brown, Davis, and Little. Guess not. The number went unused again from 1999-2005 when it was retired. Do you think SU chose to honor Brown's legacy by telling everyone after 1998 that they couldn't have it? Did Buzz and Jake make a conscious decision to permanently remove the number from circulation after Konrad left in 1998, or has the "Tradition of 44" simply become meaningless to kids 50 years later? [/QUOTE]