Monday, November 1st, 2021
He collects tombstones
Football star comes as a grim reaper
It’s Halloween, even in the NFL. There Myles Garrett of the Cleveland Browns takes it to extremes. He has developed a strange passion anyway. He collects tombstones in his garden. As a reminder of his heroic deed. Against the Steelers, the defensive end appears as a grim reaper.
Myles Garrett is a ruthless defensive end and one of the best in the NFL, the North American football league. After eight match days, the 25-year-old leads the statistics for most sacks of the season. With his eyes he focuses on the quarterback of the opposing team and rolls off on him. Without mercy. He’s tearing them down. Just like superstar Ben Roehtlisberger from the Pittsburgh Steelers. He hadn’t seen him coming and couldn’t defend himself. Garrett pissed him off. Like so many before him.
Myles Garrett also has a passion. He neatly notes the names of his “victims” and then displays them in his garden. Each quarterback gets his own gravestone on the back number and name are noted, on which the helmet is depicted and which is always well lit with a spot even at night.
On Garrett’s estate you can see not only the tombstones, but also gigantic skeletons and how they move slowly and without mercy through the garden. One of these skeletons has a huge pumpkin as its head. Because: Of course, October was the time of the pumpkins, the preparations for the big Halloween festival.
So it was only fitting that Garrett’s team, the Cleveland Browns, had to face Roethlisberger’s Steelers on Halloween Sunday. He had bad memories of the defensive end of the Browns, as he had to let Garrett sink twice in the last encounter. And Garrett made no secret of what he was up to that evening. Disguised as a mean, dark and all-consuming grim reaper, he entered the FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland with the names of all of his “victims” on his back.
No new tombstone would be added, because it went against his old rival Roethlisberger, but of course there was only one plan: stop the 39-year-old again and again. But it only opened halfway. The Steelers grabbed a 15:10 win, partly because Garrett couldn’t always be there in the end.
“Should he keep his gravestones in his garden,” said Roethlisberger after the game. “I’ll grab the win.” At the post-game press conference, Garrett reappeared as the Grim Reaper. But the Steelers had jumped at death once more.