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Meet a Buckeye: Bryant Browning
Thursday, October 22, 2009
By Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
PHOTO (top): Junior offensive lineman Bryant Browning is a Cleveland Glenville graduate. (Neal C. Lauron, Dispatch)
Guard Bryant Browning is a big man (6 feet 4, 312 pounds) with a smile to match. He appears to have one of those naturally sunny dispositions.
He also has been blessed with fine role models who helped keep him out of trouble in inner-city Cleveland and steered him toward academic achievement. He was valedictorian of his class at Glenville High School, and at OSU he's a marketing major:
Q: What do you like to do away from football? What is a good day for you?
A: I like relaxing, just sitting back, watching TV or playing Tiger Woods golf on the Wii. Just laying back, kicking my feet up.
Q: I've heard linemen talk about how important it is to take care of the feet.
A: Yeah, real important. Right now, I've got these special ankle braces in my cleats, so whenever I get a chance, I get off them and sit back and relax. I try to wear comfortable shoes. Actually, right now, I'm kind of mad, I've got these dress shoes on that kill my feet. So whenever I get a chance to take these off, it will be great.
Q: I understand you're very close to your grandfather (Robert Browning Sr.).
A: He's in his mid-70s now. He's a nice, wise man; he's been through a lot, he's seen a lot. And he does the best he can to instill his knowledge in me and my brother and his other grandchildren and his sons and daughter, so I feel he's just a great man for somebody to look up to.
Q: What values has he instilled in you?
A: Every time he talks to me, he asks me about my grades in school -- how my schoolwork is going. He finds that very important. Football can be over in one play, but if I get a good education, I can use that the rest of my life.
Q: You said he's been through a lot?
A: Growing up, he was the oldest of I don't know how many siblings. At a young age, he had to stop going to school. They lived in the South, and he had to move up north and start working and send money back to help out his family. He was a bricklayer for a lot of years. That's hard labor every day, and I know he always told us growing up that he didn't want us to have to do that hard work for all those years, so get a good education.
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Great job, Bryant! Keep it up!
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