Rufus Brown (born July 18, 1980) is a professional

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for the Arizona Rattlersazrattlers.com: Player Transactions
in the

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(AFL). Brown graduated from Austin High School in

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. He attended

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, where he played

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all four years. After playing on the championship team in 1999, he was a starter for the latter two of those years, graduating in 2002 with a degree in

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. He signed with the

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as an

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in 2004. After playing on the team's

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for most of the season, he made his

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debut early in 2005. After that season, he was allocated to the Hamburg Sea Devils, for whom he posted fifteen tackles. In 2005, he signed with the

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, where he spent the 2005 and 2006 seasons on

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1980 births Living people Players of American football from San Antonio American football wide receivers American football defensive backs Florida State University alumni Washington Redskins players Hamburg Sea Devils players San Jose SaberCats players Las Vegas Gladiators players New York Dragons players Arizona Rattlers players 21st-century American sportsmen {{ArenaFootballLeague-stub (48 yr old Rufus Brown victim of homicide was shot and killed feb 6th 2024 at 5:02 pm )