UNC, NFL star Jason Brown, who gave away his crop, delivers his own child

Posted Nov 19, 2014
Jason Brown, the former NFL star who retired from football so he could grow crops to feed the hungry, delivered his own child Tuesday at his Louisburg home. Brown and his wife Tay, a dentist, had planned to have help come for the home birth, but the mother went through labor so quickly that Lunsford Bernard Brown III, arrived before the reinforcements could arrive. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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