{"id":2003303,"date":"2023-08-17T03:32:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T07:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnny-manziels-talent-couldnt-outrun-his-greed-in-untold-his-legacy-cant-either\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T03:37:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T07:37:08","slug":"johnny-manziels-talent-couldnt-outrun-his-greed-in-untold-his-legacy-cant-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnny-manziels-talent-couldnt-outrun-his-greed-in-untold-his-legacy-cant-either\/","title":{"rendered":"Manziel&#8217;s greed overshadowed his talent. In &#8216;Untold,&#8217; his legacy remains tainted."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohnny-manziels-talent-couldnt-outrun-his-greed-in-untold-his-legacy-cant-either%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2003303&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Johnny Manziel was on track to be one of the greatest football\u2062 players of\u2062 all time but in just \u200ca few short years, he went from being a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnny-manziels-talent-couldnt-outrun-his-greed-in-untold-his-legacy-cant-either\/\" title=\"Manziel's greed overshadowed his talent. In 'Untold,' his legacy remains tainted.\">beloved national football icon<\/a> to a forgotten,\u200d failing idiot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntold: Johnny Football\u201d\u200d on Netflix seeks to share\u2064 the story of the now-30-year-old\u2019s rapid rise and fall from football fame through profanity-laced interviews with Manziel, his family, and even former coaches and managers. It ultimately proves,\u200c however, that\u200c Manziel has few to no regrets about how his quarterback career abruptly ended.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The world was rooting for Johnny Football but he blew his chance to stay in the big leagues \u200cbecause\u2064 he wanted the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Game Changer<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s no denying\u2062 that Texas native Johnny Manziel was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miami-dade-police-announce-arrest-in-2006-murder-of-university-of-miami-football-player\/\" title=\"Miami-Dade Police announce arrest in 2006 murder of university of Miami football player\">star football player<\/a>. \u200cHe could catch, he could run, and \u2014 \u200das his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">high school<\/a> coaches found out \u2062his sophomore year \u2014 he\u2064 could throw. Not long after Manziel was promoted to varsity quarterback, scouts all across the country\u200d flocked to Lone Star State on Friday nights \u200cto watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/sports\/high_school\/high_school_football\/article\/offensive-player-of-the-year-johnny-manziel-920623.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">award-winning<\/a> kid from Kerrville do his thing.<\/p>\n<p>Manziel was definitely going places, \u200cprobably on a full scholarship. His parents confirmed in the \u201cUntold\u201d episode \u200cthat he wished\u200c it would be the \u200dUniversity \u2064of Texas.\u200c Ultimately, Manziel received offers from several universities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/football\/recruiting\/player\/_\/id\/106378\/johnny-manziel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">including Baylor, Iowa State,\u2062 Rice, Stanford, and Oregon.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The documentary does\u2062 not mention these offers or Manziel\u2019s first commitment to \u2064play at Oregon. \u200cInstead, it\u2064 hones in on his ultimate decision to play at Texas A&#038;M University under head coach Kevin Sumlin and offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury. He would be part\u200b of TAMU\u2019s first team in the\u2064 NCAA Southeastern Conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>TAMU\u2019s 2011 decision to transfer from the Big 12\u2063 to the SEC certainly raised eyebrows and doubts. But by the time cleats hit the field in\u2064 the fall of 2012, the Aggies led by Manziel were kicking butt and taking names.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the\u2062 biggest\u2063 moments in that \u200dseason \u200cand\u2064 in the documentary was TAMU\u2019s upset victory over Alabama. The 29-24 \u200cwin seemed \u200dlike a turning point for the SEC\u2064 rookies.<\/p>\n<p>Manziel, of course, was\u200c not the sole proprietor of TAMU\u2019s incredible\u2064 SEC \u200bdebut. Plenty of other Aggie players pulled their weight and more during\u200b the \u20642012 season.\u200c Manziel,\u200c however, received most of the\u200b credit.<\/p>\n<p>Even though \u200che was forbidden by\u200c Sumlin to talk\u2062 to the press, Manziel easily\u2063 became front-page \u200bnews nearly every week. It wasn\u2019t long into\u200d his redshirt season that the college football folks at ESPN\u2062 and other sports networks were \u200bbuzzing about his chances at receiving the\u2064 Heisman.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m no sports journalist now and I certainly wasn\u2019t \u2062back then,\u200b but little high school me was also \u200bjazzed \u2062about Manziel\u2019s prospects \u2063in 2012.\u2064 Just a\u200d few games into his spectacular season, I told my Aggie grad dad that\u200b I was sure\u200d Manziel would take the top player trophy. Dad \u2063promised me that if Manziel won\u2062 the Heisman, he would reward my prediction\u200d with tickets to TAMU\u2019s bowl game.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Jan. \u200d4, 2013, I was one of\u200c tens of thousands of Manziel fans who watched him break\u200b the FBS\u2064 bowl run record with 229 yards \u200crushing \u2064on \u200b17 carries at the Cotton Bowl. \u2063Thanks to Manziel\u2019s fast feet, TAMU won their fight against their old \u2062Big 12 rivals the\u2062 Oklahoma Sooners 41 to 13.<\/p>\n<p>Things were looking up for \u2062Manziel and TAMU going into the \u200c2013 season. But Manziel was already headed \u2064down a dark\u2062 path.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOnce he won the Heisman, I saw a different side\u2062 of him,\u201d Manziel\u2019s sister Meri recounted to\u200b the doc\u200d crew. \u201cThere was nothing stopping him from doing what he\u2062 wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Bench-Worthy Behavior<\/h2>\n<p>Manziel\u2019s 2012 season looked great on paper, but \u200dnot even TAMU\u2019s press policy \u2063could keep word about his summer alcohol arrest\u200c or <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/1392995-texas-ams-johnny-manziel-proves-ladies-love-scooby-doo-at-halloween\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sexy Scooby-Doo celebration<\/a> \u200c from entering the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always felt you had to be careful in telling Johnny how to live his life,\u201d Kingsbury explained. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t ideal \u200bfor us as coaches, but \u2062it\u2019s\u200d kinda like, that\u2019s the dark \u200cside he needed to play good, and as long as\u2062 he \u200dwasn\u2019t getting in\u2064 trouble, do your deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohnny F-cking Football\u201d <em>would<\/em> go \u200bon to do some deals. Manziel\u200d and \u200chis unofficial manager friend Nate Fitch admitted \u200don camera that they began raking in \u2062cash \u2064in exchange for under-the-table autographs, something the NCAA prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA grew suspicious about Manziel\u2019s suddenly enriched lifestyle, which included\u2062 cross-country vacations and elaborate parties with celebrities, so Fitch made\u200d up the\u2062 story that Manziel\u2019s \u2062family got rich on oil royalties. The media ran with it.<\/p>\n<p>The autograph\u200d scheme ultimately landed Manziel on the bench for just\u200d half of\u2062 a game\u2063 in\u200c his \u200d2013 season, a penalty he said through a smirk was well worth the secret exchanges he would continue doing even after \u2063getting flagged.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to note that the documentary directors, up\u2064 to this point, made \u2062a big deal about highlighting just how much money TAMU made off of its \u200dglorious 2012 season. In a way, the documentary almost appeared to justify Manziel\u2019s \u2063cash flow and inflated image.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly,\u2062 Manziel\u2019s new agent Erik Burkhardt tried for months to manipulate Manziel\u2019s reputation before the NFL draft. But Manziel, \u2063still inflated by his successful and short-lived college career, continued to live\u2064 it up.<\/p>\n<p>He\u200d even went on a Beverly Hills bender just a few days before he was due at the NFL\u2063 scouting combine, which prompted a scramble to get drug tests to look clean. Despite his recklessness and hungover performance, Manziel was drafted in the first round in a Hail Mary move by the struggling\u2063 Cleveland Browns.<\/p>\n<p>The Browns desperately\u200c needed a hero to save their flailing franchise and Manziel desperately wanted to be one. But he \u2063wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Fines, excessive partying, domestic violence, injuries, and Manziel\u2019s \u200cgrowing arrogance about his football skills severely hampered the \u2062quarterback\u2019s ability to \u200bfulfill his pro football destiny.\u200b \u201cWin or lose, we \u2063booze\u201d only got Manziel so far.<\/p>\n<p>Coaches trying to control a 19-year-old kid in a college town is one thing. Manager wrangling a multimillionaire hotshot \u200bwho travels \u200call over the country\u200d to drink\u2063 away his cognizance is another.<\/p>\n<p>After a couple of rocky \u200cyears in Cleveland, it was no surprise that Manziel was fired by\u200c the Browns.\u2063 He responded by going \u200don a\u2064 $5 million bender and trying to commit\u2064 suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Manziel now spends his time either drinking with buddies at his mansion in Arizona\u200d or staying with his parents in Texas because, as his sister Meri put it, \u201che\u2019s not in a place mentally \u2062to go out and do something right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s clear that Manziel believes\u200d this documentary will save \u200dface for him and maybe even elicit some empathy. For former \u2063fans like me, it does the complete opposite. \u200bManziel\u2019s\u200b ongoing self-adulation shows he \u2063learned nothing\u200b from\u200c his fall \u2064from fame and simply wants to punt the \u200dblame for it on anyone but himself.<\/p>\n<p>Manziel had unmatched natural talent but he squandered it on excessive drinking, pills, partying, and aggression. Talent \u2063can only go so far without character, discipline, and \u2064some semblance of morality. And as far as \u200bviewers can tell from this episode \u200bof \u201cUntold,\u201d Manziel still lacks all of those.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Manziel, once destined for football greatness, quickly transformed from a revered national icon to a disregarded, struggling fool. Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;Untold: Johnny Football&#8221; aims to reveal the tale of the 30-year-old&#8217;s swift ascent and downfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2003304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}