HS FOOT: No place like home Monday for John Elway

For years, neighbors always were reminding Paul Janson that he was living in John Elway's old house on Tulsa Street in Northridge, and Janson says he had a feeling the Hall of Fame quarterback from Granada Hills High would show up one day.

Sure enough, Elway did show up Monday, but Janson didn't expect an entourage of two dozen production workers that arrived with Elway as part of an upcoming TV show, "Homecoming."

"I heard the door knock and thought someone might be trying to sell me something, and it was John Elway saying hi and asking how I was doing - with 20-something camera people behind him," Janson said. "I was startled. I didn't want to let all of them in - just John -- because you know how it is: The beds weren't made, and I had my work files spread out all over the floor."

Janson and Elway hung out in the backyard, where Elway looked up and "reminisced about jumping off the roof into the pool and sneaking back home through the sliding glass door late at night," Janson said. "I actually talked to him for a long time, and he seems like a real nice guy."

gerry.gittelson@dailynews.com