Fans, writers and commentators are lining up on opposite sides of the field either supporting or damning Johnny Manziel with words and speculation. One national TV sports commentator recently proposed that if the NCAA continued its relentless pursuit of Manziel for relatively minor offences… perhaps the SEC will secede from the NCAA and still count on 30 million TV viewers following their games every weekend. He was kidding, wasn’t he?
Behind this latest flurry of Johnny Football news, his odds to win the Heisman Trophy have climbed up to 12-to-1 heads-up Manziel fans, that price might just go the other way again before this is all over.
Now Texas Monthly magazine has put the popular Texas A&M Quarterback on the cover of their publication all dressed up like the ‘Man of Steel’ and flying out of Aggie Stadium. Johnny is, after all, a fourth generation Texan. Check It Here
And that is exactly how a lot of college football fans in and around College Station and elsewhere… see Johnny Football. He is a hero a little bigger than everyday life. Why are these people on his case for signing autographs? He received compensation? Give us a break. College football coaches make millions of dollars a year and never even have to dress out… never even get hit.
But it seems that they have Johnny Football accepting payback for signing his name on at least six different occasions. So…he probably did it… so what? Could anyone be seriously considering blocking last year’s Heisman trophy winner from playing football next year. I don’t know how long it has been since they have had riots in Texas, but…
Manziel continues to practice with the team amid all of the hoopla and stays away from the press principally from ESPN which seems to have been the original source of the mud-slinging, although no one from ESPN or anywhere else ever actually saw Manziel take the money. No film of that either, Hummmm.
It appears that the same folks who were making money off the autographs are now the folks pointing their fingers at Johnny Football for doing something wrong….anyone ever heard of entrapment? Some do-gooder sports writers have bought into the ‘bad’ Manziel scandal and continue to make a lot of negative noise.
The main thing on the minds of Texas A&M fans is the pending arrival of Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide on September 14. Let us hope that the powers that be will have cleared the air long before that date rolls around.
