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Ted Williams: Homeless Man Gets Offer from Cavs
Ted Williams, Homeless Man with Amazing Radio Voice, Gets Cleveland Cavaliers Offer
Ted Williams, whose "golden radio voice" shot him to internet fame, has received a job offer from the Cleveland Cavaliers, who want him to do voiceover work for the team. The Cavs offer also includes a place to live.
Ted Williams is a 71-year-old former alcoholic and drug addict who trained as a radio anouncer before his substance-abuse problems left him homeless. While drug- and alcohol-free, Williams was still living on the streets when a video from The Columbus Disptach shot him to overnight fame.
"The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!," repeated a stunned Williams, 71, on local radio station WNCI.
The Ohio Credit Union League has also offered Williams $10,000 for his voice, says The Columbus Dispatch – whose videographer created the original video.
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Helena Delacroix (not verified)at 16:45 on January 5th, 2011
TSA stopped Ted Williams from getting on his flight from Columbus to NYC. He didn’t have ‘proper ID’. So Ted spent the day at the Columbus Courthouse, trying to figure out how to get a copy of his birth certificate. Obviously he did have some form of ID, but the TSA wasn’t satisfied with it. OK – What are we going to do about this out-of-control phony security dance? These blockheads, however, are typical of our society. Follow the little rule book, and throw common sense out the window. Wrong. No little rule book takes away YOUR OBLIGATION TO THINK FOR YOURSELF. There are times you have to make an exception. That’s “the exception that proves the rule”. It’s like the traffic cop giving the mother of the little girl in a coma in Las Vegas a ‘jaywalking ticket’ – gave it to her right in the hospital. Or the policeman giving a ticket to the Dad who raced to the hospital while his wife’s water broke in the car on the way to the hospital in New Hampshire. RETRAIN EVERYBODY OR FIRE THEM.
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Flavio Jimenez (not verified)at 18:05 on January 5th, 2011
53, He's 53 yrs old.
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Nicole G (not verified)at 22:19 on January 5th, 2011
definitely not 71...
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Jimbo A (not verified)at 17:36 on January 6th, 2011
Look who he looks like LOLwww.indernagra.com/ted-williams-homeless-obama.jpg