He didn't play high school football, talked his way into a Browns tryout he wasn't invited to and slept outside. Damon Sheehy-Guiseppi is one of the NFL's best training camp stories.
., Sheehy-Guiseppi -- who didn't even play high school football, talked his way into a tryout he wasn't invited to, while sleeping outside because he couldn't afford otherwise -- has emerged as one of the NFL's best stories this training camp.To celebrate 100 years of pro football, Peyton Manning travels the country to see the people and places that made the NFL the NFL.
Damon Sheehy-Guiseppi celebrates his 86-yard punt return for a touchdown on Aug. 8 in the preseason opener against the Redskins. He initially had dreams of playing college basketball with his brother, Devin. But unlike his brother, Sheehy-Guiseppi failed to make the team at Mesa Community College. Undeterred, he started running track, until a car accident derailed that, too.
Sheehy-Guiseppi fell in love with football and wasn't about to give it up, even after no FBS scholarship offers arrived or calls from the pros came. "All the work [I] put in, all the moments I was in the gym in Arizona, sleeping in there, just all the moments I stayed up all night thinking," he said."I wanted an opportunity. To get an opportunity, to make the most of it."
That dedication came to fruition in the preseason opener against Washington. Sheehy-Guiseppi was so excited for his pro football debut that he misplaced his cleats. Beckham, who wears the same size, came to the rescue, offering his.
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