“It’s supposed to be a no brainer,” Jason Brown gave up whopping $37.5m contract to feed needy people in the USA

“It’s supposed to be a no brainer,” Jason Brown gave up whopping $37.5m contract to feed needy people in the USA

Former Baltimore Ravens player, Jason Brown has undergone a massive makeover in terms of his professional career. From being a football player at the highest level in the NFL, he has now taken to farming and other philanthropic work after announcing his retirement from the game at only 29 years of age.

In 2009, he had signed a $37.5m contract with the St. Louis Rams but announced his retirement from the game in 2012 and has since then taken up off-field work for the needy and poor. He opened a First Fruits Farm in North Carolina, near to where his grandfather farmed the land decades before.

Jason Brown was inspired from his big brother who was martyred in Afghanistan while fighting for the US

Jaosn BRown doing his work off the field
Jason Brown doing his work off the field

Brown moved his entire family out of their 10,000sq foot St Louis mansion and swapped wrestling D-linemen for a tractor and farmhouse. He has become a devoted religious man, who currently grows vegetables and fruits on his farm believing it was God’s call for him to change tracks.

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Jason Brown said, “people tell me that I’m crazy, they downright tell me that I’m stupid to walk away from millions of dollars. Because if you have the opportunity to play in the NFL, it’s supposed to be a no-brainer.

“A big inspiration from my story comes from my older brother. He was slain in service, serving our country over in Iraq and Afghanistan. When I turned 27 – the age he was when he was slain in service – it caused me to reflect deeply and say, what more can I do?

Jason brown on the field
Jason Brown on the field

“I was living a life of entertainment, of materialism, and I was ready to make that leap towards service. I asked Jesus [what I should do]. All of those talents, resources, blessings, what can I do with that? And Jesus said, feed my people. Before I had to wrestle 300lbs defensive linemen. Now I have to wrestle 1,000lbs cows!”

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