Sunday was a good day.

The Browns won 24-10 over the San Francisco 49ers at First Energy Stadium,

breaking their seven-game losing streak.

To whatever degree, Johnny Manziel remained in the conversation – at least

for the time being — to be the franchise quarterback the Browns so

desperately need.

And Manziel and the Browns torched 49ers defensive coordinator Eric

Mangini’s group in the process, getting 481 total yards.

Chris Palmer is a good guy. So are Romeo Crennel, Rob Chudzinski, Pat

Shurmur, Rob Chudzinski and Mike Pettine. They didn’t work out as head

coaches for the Browns, but you rooted for them because you liked them. We

all want to see good things happen to good people.

But Mangini? Not so much.

Mangini set this franchise back five years with what he did – and didn’t do

– as head coach of the Browns in 2009 and ’10. To say it was an unmitigated

disaster would be too complimentary. It was far worse than that.

For not only was he clueless as a head coach, he was a bad guy. In fact, he

was far worse as a human being in his time here than he was a head coach,

and, like we said, he was a pathetic excuse for a coach.

Here are two stories about Manziel you’ve never heard. They underscore just

what a miserable person he was.

There was an elderly woman who worked in food service for the Browns for

years. She was tiny – about 4-foot-8 and maybe 110 pounds soaking wet.

But despite her size and age, she worked like a trooper. Nobody in the

building labored as hard as she did.

Crennel loved her and used to make over her every time he saw her. She

beamed at the attention. Crennel is that kind of guy.

Part of her job was to wheel a cart full of beverages and snacks into the

coaches’ offices so they didn’t have to spend time walking down to the

cafeteria to get it.

And about that cart, the wheels squeaked like crazy. You could hear it –

and her – coming a mile away.

Shortly after Mangini was hired, she painstakingly trudged upstairs in

Browns Headquarters with her cartful of goodies. As was her custom, she

first went into the head coach’s office before visiting the members of his

coaching staff.

Mangini looked up and immediately proceeded to cut loose on her with

profanity-laced screaming.

She was mortified.

“Don’t you ever come in here again with that thing unless I ask you!”

Mangini bellowed.

He was no Romeo Crennel, that’s for sure.

The other incident involved the morning of a road game. A young intern type

– probably 19 or 20 years old — had been charged with putting up the

sponsorship banner behind the podium in the visitors’ press conference room

at the stadium for the Browns’ post-game presser. The banner is big and

awkward and as such it requires two people to erect it. The kid wasn’t

going to get any help, so he bravely went about the task.

As he was trying to attach the top of it to the wall, he lost control of it

and it crashed to the floor, making a loud sound.

Unbeknownst to the young man, Mangini was in a small office right behind

that wall putting the finishing touches on another genius game plan. He

roared out of his chair, walked around the corner into the presser room

and, like he did with the elderly lady, cut loose on the kid by screaming

at him in salty expletives.

Kids and the elderly are among the most vulnerable people in our society.

In many cases, physically or because of their age, putting them at the

bottom of the barrel in the world’s pecking order, they are just about

helpless. If a bully wants to kick them in so many words, he can do so very

easily.

Mangini is that bully, and he has a big, fat foot that he likes to swing

like a hatchet. It never crossed his mind that the woman was somebody’s

mother and grandmother and the kid was somebody’s son. He’s not that smart.

So it was nice to see that on his first official trip back to FirstEnergy

Stadium since getting fired by the Browns, Mangini’s defense got bullied –

and then some.

We can only hope that 49ers head coach Jim Tomsula cut loose on Mangini for

the poor way his defense performed with the same vim and vigor that Mangini

used to address the elderly lady and the intern.

Actually, here’s hoping Tomsula was even harder on Mangini.

He deserves it.

Good riddance.

No wonder Bill Belichick can’t stand him.

Nobody in Cleveland likes him, either.

Yes, Sunday was a really good day.