Fullback (gridiron football) Fullback (gridiron football) A fullback (FB) is a position in the offensive backfield in American and Canadian football, and is one of the two running back positions along with the halfback. Typically, fullbacks are larger than halfbacks and in most offensive schemes their duties are split between power running, pass catching, and blocking for both the quarterback and the other running back. Many great runners in the history of American football have been fullbacks, including Jim Brown, Marion Motley, Jim Taylor, Franco Harris, Larry Csonka, John Riggins, Christian Okoye, and Levi Jackson. However, many of these runners would retroactively be
Jim Brown (interpreter) once-closed gate to the world at that time, and assigned Brown to multiple tenures at the U.S. embassy in Beijing. Brown remarked that his proficiency in the Chinese language had caught locals off-guard. Brown's languages include Cantonese, French, Japanese, and Korean, but is best known for his knowledge of the Mandarin language. Benda Sprauge, then the State Department's Director of Language Services, explained that the ability to perform consecutive and simultaneous translation during formal diplomatic and senior-level functions was the highest level of language expertise, but that "At Jim's level, there is only one Jim". Jim Brown (interpreter) Jim Brown