NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, May 9, 2014, 12:07 AM
It wasn’t his electric talent or his undeniable marketability that sold the Browns on Johnny Manziel.
It was a homeless man.
After Cleveland traded up to take the Texas A&M quarterback at No. 22 overall, ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio, embedded at the Brownies’ Barea, Ohio, headquarters described a deafening roar from the Browns’ staff when the Johnny Football pick was made official.
The ESPN reporter then shared a bizarre tale about a 30-minute meeting he had with Browns owner Jimmy Haslam wherein the Tennessee native said it was a remark from a homeless man that convinced him that Manziel was the QB who would make Cleveland rock.
“‘I can go out to dinner anywhere in Tennessee and nobody bothers me,’” Haslam said, according to Paolantonio. “That’s his home state. But he said, ‘Here in Cleveland, everywhere I go, people know me. And I was out to dinner recently. And a homeless person was out on the street, looked up at me and said, ‘Draft Manziel.’ Just like that.’
“And that convinced him, that the Cleveland Browns’ fans wanted Manziel,” Paolantonio said.
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