LeBron James a Cleveland Brown?
LeBron James recently stated how he could in fact play NFL football, and not only play, but be really good. Here is the statement he made to ESPN:
LeBron is a physical specimen at 6’8” and 260 pounds. He has the speed, agility and athletic ability to play in the NFL.
I am doing this for the Cleveland!
Members of the Browns are actually open for LeBron to suit up. That includes quarterback Brady Quinn:
“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.”
Realistically, this will never happen. There is no way any NBA franchise would allow LeBron, the global icon, to step on the field under any circumstances other than to watch from the sidelines.
I will put good money on the fact that his 2010-11 free agency deal will have a clause scribed up prohibiting LeBron from football, and any other sport.
In basketball injuries occur with regularity but in football severely gruesome and life altering injuries happen with high frequency. Then again, you can always ask Shaun Livingston about freak injuries.
If LeBron played in the NFL and got injured like two sport star Bo Jackson, for instance, he wouldn’t have the luxury of continuing to play his second sport afterwards. Baseball is not nearly as physically demanding as basketball is. Just ask someone like John Kruk, David Ortiz, or Cecil Fielder: players whom have carried a lot of weight during their careers.
It is easy for LeBron to speculate how good he would be. However, he has not played for a length of time spanning longer than the average NFL career.
In some cases players lose their football conditioning simply by not playing for a couple of weeks. Imagine what 7 years would do. If LeBron did make a attempt at NFL football odds are he has too much of a time lapse to overcome. I would guess LeBron would be mediocre at best.
When it comes down to it this entire football idea tops the list of moronic acts LeBron has made. This bumps his comment that no NBA player should wear number 23 to a close second. Coming in third is skipping handshakes and press conferences in the after losing the 2009 Eastern Conference Finals to the Orlando Magic.
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Wed, Nov 18, 2009 by Adam Sedie
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