TOM GOOSBY PASSED AWAY AND HARDLY ANYONE NOTICED

By STEVE KING

I’ve mentioned any number of times that on this site, brownsdailydose.com, readers will find news and topics – and angles on news and topics – that you’re not going to find anywhere else.

After all, if I were writing what everyone else was writing, what purpose would that serve? You’ve got to stand out to get noticed, ad, like any other website – or any other venture, business or otherwise, period – we want to get noticed here. You have to get noticed. If you don’t, then you eventually go away. You’re out of business.

Today’s post is a good example of that – unfortunately so.

Here’s what I mean:

Tom Goosby, a backup offensive guard on the 1964 NFL champion Browns, has died. He passed away about a week and a half ago, on June 25. He had turned 79 years old about a month before his death.

If you knew Tom Goosby’s story, then you knew this was going to happen.

What is “this?,” you might ask.

Good question.

“This” – partly so, at least — is that Tom would pass away with comparatively little fanfare, including none from the Browns, who have either forgotten about him or didn’t even know who he was. Whatever the case, that’s really sad.

An obituary in the Akron Beacon Journal, with no mention of his connection to the Browns, is the only place where his death has been mentioned. That’s really sad as well.

The rest of “this” is that I wanted to make sure that Tom’s obituary listed him as a member of the champion Browns 54 years ago. That was a big deal to Tom, and he deserves that recognition – that honor. He’ll get it here. As for receiving it anywhere else, I have absolutely no idea.

But I would doubt it.

I’ll explain fully in my next post.