Johnny Mack Brown, a former University of Alabama football star and NFL player, died on Tuesday at the age of 97. Brown, a native of Linden, Alabama, played for the Crimson Tide from 1939 to 1941 and was a consensus All-American in 1940. He went on to play in the NFL for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Chicago Cardinals. Brown was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1967.