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Its nice to hear some of the good stories some times. Too bad all that makes headlines is when these guys get in trouble!Does anybody remember last year when he created a scholarship for high school football players either from Ohio or going to an Ohio college (not sure which) and even cracked "It's good even if you go to Ohio State"?That was some good stuff.Its nice to hear some of the good stories some times. Too bad all that makes headlines is when these guys get in trouble!
Really, there are. On every team and every week. Most of them go under the radar. It's a great thing that they do and it;s always overshadowed by the big bad things. A childhood friend of mine (well, my brothers. I teased him as the older brother should until the guy hit 6'4 260) played 8 seasons as a TE2 and long snapper and he and his teammates were always going to hospitals and such. It's too bad the bad gets more press.
I heard him talking on the Jim Rome show about this the other day. Apparantly, someone from the hospital called the Browns and told them the situation about Denzel. He was dying, Edwards was his favorite player, could they get him to go see Denzel at the hospital. Edwards just happened to be at the stadium that day, it was an off day. They told him about the call, so he drove down to the hospital to see Denzel. After Denzel passed away, Edwards dedicated his next game to Denzel. It was a really good story. Its too bad stories like this don't get press on sports talk shows, message boards, Sportcenter, etc. We always get the negative stories. I am sure a lot of players do things like this on a weekly basis, but no one talks about it.
:X About a half hour after everyone else around him had already left, my buddy and I were leaving the draft and wanted to get a picture with him before we left. You could tell that he was pretty tired but he was gracious enough to give us the picture. The girl that was there as his assistant or something actually complained because she had to take another picture for someone, but he just smiled and posed with us. It was interesting to note that he was there just with some girl that was apparently working for either ESPN or the NFL. He didn't have a bodyguard or a posse or anything like that. He's one of my favorite players because of his attitude and the fact that he doesn't go shooting his mouth off about himself all the time.
Sometimes it's too easy to make knee jerk reactions rather than give someone the benefit of the doubt.
I agree. Braylon had some injury problems, but even in his second year he posted 800 yards and 6 scores. Thats a very good sophomore season.
mad sweeney said:
My dad used to work as a deacon at the Children's Hospital in Detroit on Sundays. He was always coming home with an athlete's autograph, or at least saying he bumped into so and so that day. One of the guys he ran into the most was Michael Jordan, back in the mid 80's he was too well-recognized in Chicago, so he'd come up to Detroit to see kids. A couple years later, he could no longer even do that without generating unwanted publicity. These things happen a lot more than any of us realize, they just don't get the publicity like the bad stuff does.Braylon has been one of my favorites since early in the big house, these stories just re-enforce that.
Guys, my comment about the rough start was not implying that he wasn't good off the bat. If my memory serves me correct, he had a major injury his first season and a staph infection that kept him out of commission as well. That's what I was referring to.
