After their finals season at Ohio State, Dick Schafrath and Dick LeBeau were out and about Wheeling, West Virginia, relaxing and celebrating a national championship victory months before.
Little did the pair know they were about to be drafted by the Cleveland Browns and legendary coach Paul Brown.
“So we’re in the car, we’re down there for two-and-half days so we had a ball. They had the draft two days before we ever knew about it,” Schafrath said.
“I called my mom and said I’m out of gas. We’re down here in Wheeling, can you wire me some money.