This is awesome

I suppose I could hold this back for Clip of the Week tomorrow, but it's too good not to share. It's a cool story that I hope ends well; it's also another example of the amazing possibilities of social media.

The homeless man with the "golden radio voice" wanted a second chance -- and did he ever get it.

As soon as Ted Williams, a panhandler who became an online hit after video of him begging on an Ohio roadside was posted to the Internet, appeared on a local radio show this morning the offers began pouring in -- including a dream job with the Cleveland Cavaliers and a free house.

"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.

A caller to the show who said she represented the Cavs offered Williams, who shot to stardom after local newspaper the Columbus Dispatch on Monday posted video of his perfectly-pitched panhandling, a full-time job doing voiceover work for the team and parent company and a free home in Cleveland.

The Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, native trained to be a radio announcer before drugs and alcohol ruined his chances at a career, and he was reduced to begging on the side of a road in Columbus, Ohio, before the newspaper found him.

I've posted the original YouTube video below (over 4 million views in just 2 days?!), which is pretty crazy. There's not a whole ton of happy stories out there lately, and I certainly don't spend enough time focusing on them here. But this one makes me smile. Very cool.

[NY Post]