Bill Brown retires from coaching football after 50 years on the sidelines in Northern Va.

Bill Brown retires from coaching football after 50 years on the sidelines in Northern Va.

After John Brown stepped down as Colonial Forge’s head football coach last week, one logical question cropped up: Would his father Bill decide to step down as well after serving eight seasons as the Eagles’ defensive coordinator? Bill Brown answered emphatically. “I’m done,” the Virginia High School Hall of Fame member said. After 281 career victories and nearly 50 years of coaching high school football both as an assistant and a head coach at a…