OBJ Says the NFL Can't Tell Him Not Wear a $350K Watch on the Field

Source – Odell Beckham appears to feel the same way about his watch that Antonio Brown felt about his old helmet.

The Browns wideout wore a $350,000 watch during the team’s loss to the Titans last Sunday and word from the league was that his choice of accessory was a violation of league rules. The league was expected to address the issue with Beckham and the Browns without any discipline being imposed.

Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com reports that Beckham said on Tuesday that he plans to wear the watch again in Week Two against the Jets. He also said that he feels it is only an issue because he is wearing the watch and that there would be no issue at all if the watch cost $20.

Beckham added that he wants it to be “about football, not the watch.” His approach to making things about football instead of the watch is sure to leave some scratching their head.

With respect to Coley Mick, who was the first to post about OBJ’s watch on Sunday, but he obviously doesn’t know squat about high end, precision, fashion-forward luxury timepieces. Because he mistook this beautiful accessory for a mere quarter of a million piece. As if Odell Beckham Jr. would be caught dead out in public with a $250,000 watch. He might as well just be sporting a Casio.

Never. When you’re in the middle of a football game and need to know how many minutes it is past the hour for some reason, you want the very best. You don’t want to just be looking up and checking the 20-foot high digital numbers at both ends of the stadium. You want to know precisely. And you’re only going to get that from a precision crafted Richard Mille that costs more than my house.

So good for Beckham for standing his ground and not letting those Timex-wearing lowlifes from NFL HQ tell him how to color coordinate his Browns outfit. The best way to keep it “about football, not the watch” is to not simply leave the watch at home. It’s to fight for your right to wear it on the field in violation of sound and sensible rules. That’ll prove to everyone you’re serious about football.

P.S. Antonio Brown’s helmet thing was idiotic. But it least it was a fight over an essential piece of protective equipment the NFL and NFLPA changed on him. Something that directly affects his play. By comparison this makes Brown sound almost rational. I didn’t think anything could.