Hide your couches if you live in Morgantown. Or if you need to get rid of them, maybe break out your lighter fluid.
WVU football landed a commitment on Tuesday from former Penn State four-star offensive tackle Kevin Brown – ranked the fifth-best player at his position in the Class of 2026 by the 247Sports composite rankings. Brown made his announcement live on The Pat McAfee Show on ESPN alongside his father, who formerly played for current head coach Rich Rodriguez at WVU.
McAfee, a former Mountaineer kicker and WVU Hall-of-Famer, immediately led a rendition of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" after the announcement. The, the younger Brown announced that he had a "surprise" for McAfee. That surprise ended up being a flaming couch.
"I'm bringing couch burning back to Morgantown," Brown announced before turning his video feed towards a couch sitting outside on his family's property and setting it aflame. We're bring it back baby."
McAfee said he respects the move before sharing one simple fact that any resident of Morgantown will know to be true, and one that might put a damper of Brown's plans to bring the old WVU tradition back to Morgantown.
"The Morgantown Police aren't going to love that," McAfee joked.
"They'l be fine with it," Brown retorted.
Whether law enforcement will "be fine with it" is certainly up for debate, but Brown isn't the only one ready to bring back couch-burning for Rich Rodriguez's second tenure at the school. At least a couple couches were burned following this year's Backyard Brawl win, including one that injured running back Jahiem White caught on camera.