Lebron James made sure the entire Ohio State football team was laced in his Lebron Solider 10 cleats but he wanted to be there in person to see how they looked. Bron took a bunch of his Cavs teammates to the Ohio State vs Michigan game, including J.R. Smith, Richard Jefferson and Tristan Thompson. It didn’t take long before J.R. was trying to run receiver routes on the field.

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Bron still claims to this day that he would have went to Ohio State if he didn’t go straight to the NBA. The school in fact was recruiting him for football as he was an all-state receiver during his sophomore year of high school and then helped carry his team to the state semi-finals as a junior. After that he decided to focus solely on basketball which of course was the right decision.

Bron maintains a deep love for the school, highlighted by his appearance today. Smartly, Ohio State coach Urban Meyer turned this weekend into a big one for some potential high school recruits that he wants to be on his team next year. Having Lebron as a recruiting tool is almost unfair but that’s the benefit of having someone with star power on your side.

Earlier this week, Lebron spoke on hooking up the team with the cleats as well as the game itself.

A lot of guys have the option (to wear them) I believe they all received them yesterday. It’s been something that’s been in the works for years now. We finally were able to put together a shoe and work with the Nike football lab to put a cleat on there. It’s always a hard process when you turn a basketball shoe into a cleat, so we finally were able to find a shoe that fits the Nike lab football cleat.

And then we had those guys wear test them yesterday at practice, and for the guys that want to wear them, they can. They have so many shoes, they can decide what they want to wear as well. So, it was just like, great timing, I guess, that it came together when they were playing Michigan in the biggest game of the season.”

Check the gallery for some of the pictures from the sidelines today.

H/t Cavs Nation