Off to a Cleveland Start!!!!! Whoops? Who? Where is Cleveland. Who? Mike Pettine, he's the coach? Where is it again, on what lake, have they been in the league long ..... no kidding???????
-- Johnny Manziel held up his new brown
No. 2 jersey
and flashed a smile
that beamed to Texas.
With whirring cameras providing the soundtrack, he was welcomed to his NFL home. Johnny Football arrived. Cleveland may never be the same.
Humble, confident and charmingly comfortable in handling any question, Manziel was introduced Friday by the Browns, who positioned themselves perfectly in the first round of the draft to select the polarizing Texas A&M quarterback with equal amounts of skill and swag.
Sitting alongside fellow first-round pick Justin Gilbert, a cornerback from Oklahoma State taken 14 picks ahead of him, Manziel said he's stepping into a life he believes will be even crazier than his college days.
"I'm going into it expecting madness," he said.
Manzielmania hit Cleveland like a Spring thunderstorm Friday. As of 6 p.m., the Browns had sold 2,300 season tickets - renewals and new purchases - since the start of Thursday's first round. In the hours after Manziel was chosen with the No. 22 overall pick, the team's sales staff struggled to keep up with phones that barely stopped ringing.
At the team's gift shot in FirstEnergy Stadium, fans waited in long lines to buy Manziel jerseys at $150 a pop.
Humble, confident and charmingly comfortable in handling any question, Manziel was introduced Friday by the Browns, who positioned themselves perfectly in the first round of the draft to select the polarizing Texas A&M quarterback with equal amounts of skill and swag.
Sitting alongside fellow first-round pick Justin Gilbert, a cornerback from Oklahoma State taken 14 picks ahead of him, Manziel said he's stepping into a life he believes will be even crazier than his college days.
"I'm going into it expecting madness," he said.
Manzielmania hit Cleveland like a Spring thunderstorm Friday. As of 6 p.m., the Browns had sold 2,300 season tickets - renewals and new purchases - since the start of Thursday's first round. In the hours after Manziel was chosen with the No. 22 overall pick, the team's sales staff struggled to keep up with phones that barely stopped ringing.
At the team's gift shot in FirstEnergy Stadium, fans waited in long lines to buy Manziel jerseys at $150 a pop.
