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From ball boy to team intern, Eric Mangini returns with his job of a lifetime: Browns head coach

by Mary Kay Cabot Sunday January 11, 2009, 7:23 AM


When Eric Mangini announced to his mother Nancy that he was taking a job as a ball boy with the Browns a year after college in 1994, she flipped out as only a mother could.
"I said, A ball boy? You've got to be kidding me!' " recalled Nancy Mangini. "All those years and all that expense of an education, and you're going to be a ball boy? No paycheck? No benefits? No pension? I said, Eric, you really shouldn't do this!' "
Mangini, the Browns' new head coach, was 23 at the time and a graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut with a degree in political science. He planned to become an investment banker, but caught the coaching bug while studying abroad in Melbourne, Australia, where his brother was a banker.
When his brother's semipro football team needed a coach, Mangini jumped at the chance. He had a blast, deciding then and there to scrap mergers and acquisitions for the X's and O's of the NFL. Upon returning home, he worked as a substitute teacher and helped coach his high school team. He also had a real job offer, to coach the offensive line at nearby Trinity College in Hartford.
But he gave it all up to pick up socks and jocks for the Browns.
"[My mom] sees this picture of me with 11- and 12-year-olds, and I have my arm around them and we've got our towels on," Mangini said. "I had student loans and it was a hard sell. I kept saying 'Mom, this is the Cleveland Browns. Do you understand? THE Cleveland Browns.' "
Mangini got his foot in the door as a Browns ball boy because his former Wesleyan head coach, Kevin Spencer, now a Cardinals assistant, was the Browns special-teams coach at the time. Even so, it was a tough gig to get. Then Browns coach Bill Belichick, a control freak from the start, was in on the hiring of ball boys, making them catch balls and prove they could hold their own on a football field.
Of course, it didn't hurt that Mangini played college ball at Wesleyan - just like Belichick. Mangini was an undersized, overachieving nose tackle who set the Cardinals' career record with 36.5 sacks. Belichick had played center and tight end there 15 years earlier. "I think they had a secret handshake or something," quipped then Browns vice president of public relations Kevin Byrne, now with the Ravens.

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