It is Cleveland.

The shock of the Michael Vick dogfighting case doesn’t even touch this story… Cleveland Browns starting cornerback Leigh Bodden was arrested at a Cleveland airport as first reported by the Associated Press in Berea, Ohio. No, seriously… the Cleveland Browns? Com’mon fellas, it is CLEVELAND.

Apparently, Bodden was spotted driving in reverse down a one way street and then was “verbally abusive” with the police that instructed him to pull over. After getting out of the car, Bodden more or less began to resist arrest before being place in handcuffs and transported to a nearby jail, where he sat for nearly five hours.

I’m going to say it again, this is Cleveland. I’m almost beginning to think that players are going out of their way to get in trouble. This isn’t a “Pacman” incident where he is “making it rain” in a strip club. Nor is it a case where he is being blatantly inhumane. This is not even your normal bar fight. More or less, Bodden was driving in reverse. It is a traffic violation. A normal individual pulls over, apologizes to the officer and goes along with his day. It seems the NFL players, and maybe athletes in general, are TRYING their hardest to get arrested. I mean, as I understand from Cleveland (both from what I see and being there) that one would have to actually wake up in the morning and think about how he is going to get arrested.

And besides, Bodden, you play for the Browns. Don’t you think the team has enough problems of its own? First, they were flipping coins to determine the starting quarterback. What is going on now? A fun game where a flip of a coin determines who is going to go out and get arrested?

Creativity gets you bonus points.