The name Damon Sheehy-Guiseppi may not be familiar to NFL fans.
But on Thursday night, he went viral when he scored at touchdown on an 86-yard punt return during the Cleveland Browns win in their first preseason game of 2019.
That’s because teammates jumped on top of him in the end zone.
So why would they do that for a player who scored in the fourth quarter of a meaningless preseason game?
Per Cleveland.com, the Phoenix College product talked his way into a tryout with the Browns despite the fact that he wasn’t invited, telling people he knew Cleveland VP of player Personnel Alonzo Highsmith when he didn’t.
He ran a 4.38 40, leading to an official tryout. But there’s even more to the story:
The tryout was a week away and he didn’t have money to fly back home. He also didn’t have money to rent a room for the entire week. So Sheehy-Guiseppi improvised, sleeping outside, sleeping at a 24-hour fitness center, and then outside a training facility he was using to prepare for his workout.
Thursday night, he did this:
Just incredible.
