Johnny Football

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Johnny Football Edition | Dude Perfect

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Too cool.  Man, I love watching this kid

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http://teamwhitaker.org/2013/02/an-open-letter-to-johnny-football/

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AJ McCarron and Johnny Manziel Enjoy Whirlwind Bromance, Plan Vacation Together



http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1622581-aj-mccarron-and-johnny-manziel-enjoy-whirlwind-bromance-plan-vacation-together

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Column: Suffering from Johnny Football fatigue
by David Climer, USA TODAY Sports

The season can't come soon enough for Johnny Manziel or those of us that are starting to suffer from Johnny Football fatigue.

Let me be the first to say that I love watching the guy play quarterback for Texas A&M. But let me also say I'm starting to consider him the most spoiled brat in intercollegiate athletics. He's becoming the Kardashian of college football.

Manziel's Twitter post over the weekend where he suggested an unspecified event "is a reason why I can't wait to leave college station ... whenever it may be" was bad, but the follow-up was worse.

"Don't ever forget that I love A&M with all my heart, but please please walk a day in my shoes," he posted.

There are a couple of things to ponder here. For one, Manziel deleted the first tweet but failed to note that when you have more than 367,000 followers on Twitter, a tweet is forever. You can strike it from your account but it remains in the public domain for those that saved it.

And then there is the second tweet. It's hard to muster a lot of sympathy for the reigning Heisman Trophy winner and the biggest man on any campus.

I'm sure there are some challenges here and there (Asked for autographs at the cafeteria? Posing for pictures at the nearest sorority house?), but I daresay a lot of people would embrace the opportunity to walk a day in Manziel's shoes.

Based on a couple of photos that went viral in the last few months, including a doozy from a Halloween party, it seems like a pretty sweet gig.


Manziel's not the first to realize the blessing/curse nature of Twitter. It's cool to tweet a picture from your seat at Game 2 of the NBA Finals but you must be prepared to deal with the backlash when you vent about all the invasions of your privacy. Sorry, but you can't have it both ways.

No wonder most big-time athletics departments have someone on staff whose job includes monitoring its athletes' every move on social media. Given all the outlets, it's a 24/7 job.

Maybe Manziel is just making up for lost time. While compiling much of the body of work that resulted in his winning the Heisman Trophy, he was off limits to the media. Coach Kevin Sumlin wouldn't let Manziel do interviews for the first two months of the season because he was a freshman (actually a redshirt freshman) and he might not say the right things.

Yes, we all know that first- and second-year college students are too sheltered and unworldly to be subjected to harsh questioning from the big, bad media. But I guess playing in front of 100,000-plus at Bryant-Denny Stadium is no problem.

Remember, this is the same guy that was so put off by the extra attention he was getting from other students in an English class in the spring that he opted to take the class on-line. One day, he's living like a rock star, the next he can't stand to be subjected to all the hubbub in College Station.

Yes, it must be tough to walk a mile — or a day, as he said — in Manziel's shoes.

Or is it? Compare his plight with some Regular Joe that is working nights and weekends so he can finish up classes at Texas A&M this semester. Or maybe Manziel would like to swap spots with John E. Grunt, a first-year member of the Corps of Cadets at A&M. While joining the corps carries no military obligation, many of its members enlist after graduation.

Manziel's biggest fear is getting drafted by the Oakland Raiders. Meanwhile, some of his fellow A&M students are bound for Kandahar.

Try walking a day in their boots, Johnny Football.

David Climer also writes for The Tennessean in Nashville.

http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2436365

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You are living a charmed life, Johnny. Suck it up!

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http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/9537999/otl-ncaa-investigating-johnny-manziel-profiting-autographs?src=mobile

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Manziel's biggest fear is getting drafted by the Oakland Raiders. Meanwhile, some of his fellow A&M students are bound for Kandahar.

Try walking a day in their boots, Johnny Football.

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http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/9537999/otl-ncaa-investigating-johnny-manziel-profiting-autographs?src=mobile

I cannot fathom any situation where I'd side with the NCAA in a dispute .
( outside of overt criminal behavior and we all know the NCAA will turn a blind eye when it suits them )

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Joe Schad Tweets that a second autograph broker has come forward saying that Manziel asked for money to sign autographs. Said autograph broker has declined 6 separate phone calls from the NCAA.