He’s the man with the golden throat.
Ted Williams’ voice, is so deep, so compelling and so rare, that in just couple of days he has gone from being homeless to famous.
The former morning drive DJ, spent only a short time pursuing his dream job before destroying his life and career with drugs and alcohol.
But after a YouTube video of him panhandling surfaced on Monday, the Brooklyn-born Williams has since been offered a job by the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers and is being pursued by NFL Films for voiceover work. So far, more than 4 million people have watched the video.
Tomorrow he was set to appear in the studio of the “Today” show and be reunited with his 90-year-old mother who he has not seen since 1986. But his lack of an ID kept him from flying, according to TMZ.com.
“All I wanted was a job and possibly a place to live and maybe be a productive taxpaying citizen again,” Williams, 53, told The Post yesterday. “This thing has turned into something of such a magnitude that I can’t even comprehend it.”
He says he has lived on the streets of Columbus, Ohio since 1996 and been sober for just over two years.
“Whoever you are, I appreciate everything that has happened to me in this one day,” he said. “Because you never know what is going to happen the next. If I don’t get nothing out of nothing, at least I get some prayers answered. One of them is that my mom would live enough to see me be successful.”