OBJ plans to maintain carrying $190Okay watch in video games

CLEVELAND — Cleveland Browns star Odell Beckham Jr. stated that he nonetheless plans to put on in video games the luxurious watch that he sported within the season opener in opposition to the Tennessee Titans.

“I am going to nonetheless be carrying it,” Beckham stated Tuesday. “The identical means I put on it day by day I am going to apply, after I go right here, I am going there, been carrying it. Take a bathe with it on. It is simply on me.”

Browns extensive receiver Odell Beckham Jr. wears a watch onto the sphere earlier than Sunday’s recreation. Related Press

NFL spokesman Michael Signora stated earlier within the week that whereas the league has no guidelines prohibiting jewellery, it does have a coverage “prohibiting laborious objects.” He additionally stated the league would deal with the matter with Beckham and the Browns, who play on the New York Jets subsequent Monday night time.

Beckham countered that the Richard Mille timepiece — which retails for round $190,000 — is plastic and thus “should not be a difficulty,” though Beckham indicated he hadn’t spoken to the league about it but.

“You bought to look into the rule ebook. It says you possibly can’t put on any laborious objects. The watch is plastic,” he stated. “Individuals have knee braces on which are laborious and made out of metallic. You do not see them taking them off. Everybody has jewellery on. So, I am good.”

Beckham confirmed that his tweet Monday night time was a response to the watch:

If ain’t one factor…. it is one other…

— Odell Beckham Jr (@obj) September 10, 2019

He added Tuesday that he felt the NFL was singling him out.

“If anyone else would’ve worn the watch, if it was a $20 watch, it would not been no drawback,” he stated. “That is simply my life. If it ain’t this, it is one thing else. If it wasn’t the watch, it might’ve been the best way I would tied my footwear.”

A spokesperson for the watch firm stated that 500 items have been made and that Beckham is only a buyer and never a model ambassador.