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Johnny Manziel, college football's most entertaining player with the reputation for pulling off magical plays on the field and making headlines off it, was selected with the No. 22 overall pick in the NFL draft on Thursday night by the Cleveland Browns, who hope they have finally found their franchise quarterback. Manziel sat patiently in the wings at Radio City Music Hall, waiting nearly three hours for his name to be called as everyone from Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers to the league's official Twitter account tweeted about him squirming in his chair backstage. Then the Browns, who made two earlier trades, made a third with Philadelphia and nabbed the polarizing and electrifying Manziel. As he walked onto the stage to meet Commissioner Roger Goodell, Manziel rubbed his fingers together, a signature ''money'' gesture that endeared him to some fans and annoyed others critical of his reputation for partying and the ''inadvertent'' violation of NCAA rules involving signing autographs that got him suspended for a half last season.
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