As if LeBreezy doesn’t have enough on his plate right now with a struggling Shaq and rampant speculation about where he eventually play the prime years of his basketball career, now he is spouting some nonsense about how, because he was an all-state high school WR, he could be “really good” at football if he just dedicated himself to the game. Sure he could. Because the NFL is just clamoring for maddeningly slow 6 foot 8 receivers who haven’t played in 10 years.
Mixed emotions from his hometown Browns:
“That’d be great,” Brady Quinn said. “Tell him to suit up and let us know, we’ll get him working. Obviously he’s an incredibly talented athlete. If he wants to try to play a little bit now, we’d be more than willing to pick him up.”
Since the Browns are without a GM right now, Quinn apparently feels he can make stupid statements like that.
His teammate, nose tackle Shaun Rogers, isn’t so sure.
“I heard that comment,” Rogers said. “I have mixed emotions about that. A great athlete? Yes. A football player? No.”
Rogers then looked into TV cameras.
“Yeah LeBron, I said it,” he said. “It’s a punishing game. I just don’t think you can step off the basketball court after not going through this year in and year out and just play football. From that standpoint, I just don’t think it’s possible. You have to weather and condition your body to take this punishment.”
Plus, being in the same division as defensive specialist Joakim Noah and being in the same division as defensive assassin Ray Lewis are two slightly different things. Just because you are good at one thing, doesn’t mean you are automatically good at another. For instance, there is little doubt I’m a world-class sports blogger but that doesn’t mean I could fly the space shuttle. Yep, that’s a perfect example.
I have an idea. If LeBron James is serious about playing football, why doesn’t he use the four years of eligibility he has left and play for Ohio State? Until then, pipe down princess. Your frilly little shorts are too tight. (espn)
