Some of the best stories about the late, great Orlando Brown are the ones that, because of their subject matter, you can’t tell on a family-oriented website such as brownsdailydose.com.

And the ones about the former Browns and Baltimore Ravens that you can tell – barely so, mostly – can be done only with great care, as if working your way through a mine field.

Here’s one story that can be told: Brown came to the Browns in 1993 as a rookie free agent. However, he didn’t play that season after head coach Bill Belichick made up some fictitious injury to put him on IR so Brown could spend a year shedding 35 pounds of baby fat and get into shape.

Belichick was asked if Brown was bigger than another offensive lineman who arrived in Cleveland in 1993, 6-foot-4, 325-pound Herman Arvie, a fifth-round choice in the NFL Draft who was nicknamed “RV” because of his size.

The coach snickered when he heard the question.

“You could put Herman Arvie inside of Orlando Brown (who was listed at 6-7 and 350 pounds),” Belichick said.

And he was right.

Here’s another story that we can tell, by treading lightly: Brown easily made the active roster in 1994 and became a starter for a line that set a club record that still stands for giving up just 14 sacks in a 16-game schedule, and blocked for a Pro Bowl running back in Leroy Hoard as the team went 11-5 and earned a wild-card berth, making the playoffs for the first time in five years.

Brown said the veteran players on the Browns told him all about – warned him all about – the then fierce rivalry with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

“I didn’t really listen to them, though,” Brown said in 1995. “I was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, whatever.’ Then when we played them last year in Pittsburgh, I found out what they were talking about.

“It was after our first offensive play of the game. Kevin Henry (Steelers defensive tackle) grabbed me by my (personal parts) and pulled me down the line of scrimmage. Can you believe that? The man is pulling me by my (personal parts).”

I can see him – and hear him – telling that story as media members laughed uproariously. It had to have actually happened, because Orlando Brown didn’t lie.

And I’m not telling a lie, either, when I say that I had more fun covering him than just about anybody.

God rest your soul, big man.