{"id":5829,"date":"2014-08-06T13:29:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T20:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5829"},"modified":"2014-08-10T13:34:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T20:34:34","slug":"the-boxing-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/06\/the-boxing-browns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boxing Browns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3084480\/the-browns-american-football-sports-boxing-ohio-nfl-mike-pettine-joe-haden-deion-sanders\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from TIME Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Browns Defenders Wear Boxing Gloves in Practice<\/h1>\n<p><strong><a style=\"color: #e90606;\" href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/author\/associated-press\/\">AP\/ Tom Withers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"color: #282828;\" src=\"http:\/\/timedotcom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/browns-boxing-gloves-_wong.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Gilbert, Miles Austin\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" data-loaded=\"true\" \/><em>Cleveland Browns cornerback Justin Gilbert, left, is wearing small boxing gloves to keep himself from grabbing jersey&#8217;s of wide receivers during practice at the NFL football team&#8217;s training camp on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, in Berea, Ohio. Tony Dejak\u2014AP Photo<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>As the NFL cracks down on defenders grabbing the jersey&#8217;s of wide receivers, The Browns&#8217; cornerbacks and safeties are wearing boxing gloves during training camps to break the habit<\/h2>\n<p>To prepare for the NFL\u2019s crackdown on defensive holding this season, the team is making its cornerbacks and safeties wear boxing gloves during training camp practices. The smaller, mittenlike gloves \u2014 used by kickboxers and in mixed martial arts \u2014 are meant to deter players from latching onto jerseys of wide receivers, an allowable tactic in the past but one that will draw a penalty flag now.<\/p>\n<p>When he first saw the padded gloves, Browns Pro Bowl cornerback Joe Haden didn\u2019t know what to think.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came out and we had boxing gloves on,\u201d Haden said. \u201cIt was crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3084480\/the-browns-american-football-sports-boxing-ohio-nfl-mike-pettine-joe-haden-deion-sanders\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at TIME.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TIME Magazine Browns Defenders Wear Boxing Gloves in Practice AP\/ Tom Withers Cleveland Browns cornerback Justin Gilbert, left, is wearing small boxing gloves to keep himself from grabbing jersey&#8217;s of wide receivers during practice at the NFL football team&#8217;s training camp on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, in Berea, Ohio. Tony Dejak\u2014AP Photo As the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}