Braylon Edwards Wears Penn State Shirt on MNF | Secretly Wants to Be a Buckeye

Braylon Edwards had an outstanding game last night in the Cleveland Browns’ 35-14 victory over the New York Giants on Monday Night Football. He finished with a career-high 154 receiving yards, helped build early momentum for the Browns with a couple of big plays, and talked like a team leader in the postgame interviews. All in all, the Michigan alum probably made the folks back home in Ann Arbor mighty proud last night.

Well, other than when he was shown in the pre-recorded interview wearing a Penn State shirt (picture, left).

Thanks to Deadspin.com for the tip on this one. I wonder if this was Braylon’s subtle way of trying to ingratiate himself with the Browns fan base, most of which are rabid Jim Tressel butt kissers and Ohio State Buckeye fanatics. Something tells me that even though Braylon Edwards was in the midst of a stellar night, someone at the Browns Backers gathering where I watched the game would have booed if the dirty maize and blue “M” had been emblazoned on Braylon’s shirt.

As it was, when Braylon got caught from behind on the deep pass early in the game, one of the Browns (and ostensibly Ohio State) fans seated near me muttered, “No one catches him if he was a Buckeye.”

(Yes, because as the last two National Championship games and this year’s USC game have proven, Ohio State is renowned for their speed.)

Anyway, the way I see it, now that Rich Rodriguez has come in and begun the process of urinating all over the great tradition of Michigan University football, Braylon might as well make his life easier and just switch allegiances. Sure, the Browns/Buckeyes fans will still have the bad memories of Braylon in the maize and blue #1 jersey, but I think most would welcome him with open arms if he started pasting buckeye logos on his helmet for every big play or sported a gray sweater vest and spectacles in post-game interviews.

I think the Penn State emblem was a subconscious manifestation of the jealous little Buckeye inside of Braylon Edwards screaming to be let out, sick of the annual November rivalry beat down and the arm’s-length love he gets from Browns fans because of his affiliation with the Wolverines. You’re a Cleveland Brown now Braylon. And soon you won’t recognize your alma mater anyway because integrity, academics, and tradition mean nothing in the Rich-centric, damnit-I-will-run-the-spread-with-white-guys-anyway-because-I-have-to-prove-that-I-am-a-genius vision of the world possessed by the Wolverines’ megalomaniacal new head coach/loser.

So this week Braylon, when you get interviewed for the pregame shows talking about the resurgence of the Browns and your incredible performance against the Giants, just let it all out and wear your scarlet and gray. A nation of Buckeye-loving Browns fans is ready to finally embrace you as truly one of their own.

[tags]braylon edwards, nfl, football, ohio state buckeyes, michigan wolverines, rich rodriguez, cleveland browns[/tags]

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