Chris CrockettBraylon Edwards’ Ole Man Says…Catch The Damn Ball Son!
January 19th 2010 18:31
(From Pro Football Talk )
"People wouldn't be harping on him dropping passes," Braylon's father Stan Edwards told the Star-Ledger, "if he wasn't dropping passes."
"Wish I knew," he said. "It's mind-boggling. He'll make catches that nobody else in the game will make. It's not making a difficult catch. He'll make a borderline impossible catch! And then he'll drop one on a simple route."
"Am I worried about him getting a reputation for dropping the football?" Stan said. "No. Because let's be honest -- he's earned it."
Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about right there! Some tough love from Stanley Edwards showered upon his son, New York Jets wide receiver, Braylon.
Braylon’s been getting crucified for his dropped passes all year long and just when he hopes to grab a second to get away from it all, his own Daddy jumps on his case and indirectly suggests to the media that they should nickname his kid, Dropopotamus!
This all brings me to realize that Stan obviously took one of the rules of parenting that I clearly remember seeing somewhere and put a little twist on it and made it his own…
“Young people need to be steered by their parents, not just left to absorb what they pick up from their peers. This is all the more important today, when the tight-knit fabric of the family and community no longer protects them as it once did.”
Another words: Keep hangin out with those other ‘butter fingered’ bad influence friends of yours like Teddy Ginn Jr. and Dwayne Bowe, and you won’t like what you become, son. Listen to me, I’m your father, STOP DROPPING THE FOOTBALL! YOU’RE EMBARASSING ME!
Now good luck next week against the Colts, son. I’ll be sitting at the 50 dressed as an alligator, wearing a new T-Shirt I had made up that says… “"My son Braylon’s open, it's there.... Oh! Off his fingertips, incomplete. He had alligator arms on that one." Turn that negative message into a positive, son.
Chuck
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Comment by 5280
The ancient Egyptians worshiped the god Sobek who was symbolized by the alligator's cousin, the crocodile, and was revered for his ferocity and quickness.
Chimpanzees certainly have longer arms but most of us know the colorful analogy for incompetence in relation to what monkeys would do with a football. And let's face it folks, an alligator would kick a monkey's figurative ass in a battle of tooth and claw. Forgive me the allegory, please
Alligator mississippiensis emerges into the world from an egg which approximates what shape? I daresay shape recognition of a football falls in the alligator column or pros and cons over our mammalian cousins as well. Well except for the platypus.
So please, if we could stick to terms like "butter fingers" or ask why Stevie Wonder suited up for the Jets wearing number 17, I am sure it would give this ancient species and North American native a much needed publicity boost.
I hear they taste just like chicken.
Excelsior,
5280
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