{"id":2026577,"date":"2023-09-09T05:03:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T09:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/review-untold-johnny-football\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T05:06:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T09:06:23","slug":"review-untold-johnny-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/review-untold-johnny-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#8216;Untold: Johnny Football&#8217; &#8211; a must-watch!"},"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\">14<\/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%2Freview-untold-johnny-football%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=2026577&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>\n<h2>Bad Boys and Untold Stories: The Rise and \u200cFall of Johnny &#8220;Football&#8221; Manziel<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bad boys used to\u200b matter \u2062in\u2064 American entertainment. \u200bEminem, who now has lawyers send \u200cVivek Ramaswamy \u200bmoralistic cease and\u200c desist letters, was once a bad boy. Rap was\u2064 the last bad boy scene; \u2064speaking indecorously of\u200b the fair sex\u200d was like saying hello. Actors would\u200c also say\u200d crazy things or get into fights. This was true \u2063of sports, too. \u2063Allen\u2063 Iverson was the bad boy \u200dof the \u200cNBA in the \u201990s; now we admire Steph \u2063Curry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Still, we do like \u2062a \u2063scandal, even though we\u2019re more moralistic these \u2063days \u200dabout it, so here\u2019s one \u200bthat matters to me. <em>Untold<\/em>, the Netflix sports \u2064documentaries series, has new stories this year, one on YouTube\u2063 celebrity-turned-boxer Jake \u2064Paul, another on Florida\u200b Gators\u2064 coach Urban Meyer, and a third on \u200bdrugs \u2062scandals in sports. Quite a\u200c variety of things \u2062calculated\u200d to get attention. But the \u2062one I want you to watch \u200bis on Johnny &#8220;Football&#8221; Manziel, the \u200cHeisman-trophy \u200dwinning, multiple college-football record-setting QB drafted as the\u200c 22nd overall pick in 2014 \u2063by the Cleveland Browns.<\/p>\n<p>Almost nobody\u2062 has heard\u2064 about Manziel in almost a decade, \u200dbut back then he \u2063was national news. What happened? He flamed \u200cout of the NFL\u200d inside of two seasons; nobody would sign him after he\u200d spectacularly failed with the Browns. He dropped into Canadian football after that, only to\u2063 be banned. \u2062It was a very quick self-destruction for Manziel\u200b and \u2064seems permanent. Reversals\u2064 of fortune, almost as much as absence of redemption, are of great importance\u2063 to us.<\/p>\n<p>Manziel learned \u200dfootball in Kerrville, \u200cTexas\u2014a state that is \u200call about football.\u200c Tivy \u200cHigh\u2062 School makes it happen, by regular, unremitting military training.\u200d You could think of it\u2063 as an \u2063attempt to tame the savage cowboys. It doesn\u2019t always \u200dwork. You must remember that <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> and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/she-accused-him-of-sexual-assault-the-school-said-she-wasnt-incapacitated-but-did-not-consent-when-she-said-yes\/\" title=\"She Accused Him Of Sexual Assault. The School Said She Wasn\u2019t Incapacitated But Did Not Consent When She Said \u2018Yes.\u2019\">college football<\/a> have next to \u200dno defense, so Johnny was \u2062almost a thing of magic,\u200b a \u200dyoung \u200cman who ran, jumped, escaped tackles, \u2062threw, could do anything but fly.\u2064 He put up\u2064 great numbers and\u200d made the game incredibly exciting.\u2064 What is freedom but achieving the impossible?<\/p>\n<p>At \u200cTexas A&#038;M, Manziel quickly became a celebrity. He was the first\u2064 freshman to win the\u200b Heisman \u200ctrophy. Johnny was mad, and he made Texas mad.\u200b Texas is football-mad, which made Johnny \u200beven\u2062 more mad. Everyone wants to touch the \u2063miracle. It\u2019s remarkable how, the moment you get to the top of the \u2064world, there\u2019s always a crowd. Booze was everywhere and so were young\u2064 women. There is something innocent in the young \u200bman enjoying this success, which feels\u200b like a \u2062divine \u200cgift. There\u2019s also something innocent in the people\u200d idolizing Johnny Football. Manziel hung out with celebrities and made the news around the\u2064 country; he made vast sums of \u200dmoney selling autographs. He was briefly admitted among\u2063 the golden gods of America, \u2064and life seemed very\u2062 much a paradise. He learned\u200d gradually to lie \u200cto everyone\u200b so he\u200c could do what \u2062he wanted\u2063 while \u2063looking respectable enough to continue his career.<\/p>\n<p>The consequences, of course, are catastrophic. Bad boys are so attractive precisely because they\u2019re\u200b reckless, and\u2062 we\u2064 secretly hope to see what happens when they\u200c break through the \u200climits of ordinary \u2064life. Johnny was first beautiful, then terrible, but for one and the same reason, because he lived out the American rebellion \u200bagainst\u2064 reality. \u2062For one moment, \u200cJohnny wanted to turn pro and worked hard at it, \u200dseeming to obey the rules, but failed. This is what you\u2019re supposed to be in America, a professional,\u200c reliable, in control of your fears and desires. Professionals, however, are not men. \u2064They\u2019re not their own masters, \u2062but instead \u200cliable for quite \u200ba bit and defined by their \u2062obedience. But\u200c bad boys are also not men, since they have childish urges. Johnny liked \u200cbeauty, \u200cbut\u200d not decency\u2014there is something humiliating in the obedience required by modern\u2062 life. His father blames college for not making\u2063 a man of him. You can blame \u200bsocial media.<\/p>\n<p>The Johnny Football show \u2063is \u2062impressive because there\u2019s no one \u200bwho can\u200c control this out-of-control young\u200b man.\u2062 He attempted suicide after turning to\u2063 drugs and\u2064 scandal, but failed at \u200bthat as well. It\u2019s \u2063shocking. He \u2062somehow survived. He\u2064 turned 30 making this documentary. Talking to a camera, \u200cyou\u200b can watch him say about himself the sorts of things people\u200d used to say. He seems an adult, because he talks like\u2063 we expect him\u200d to talk. That\u2019s the most shocking\u200d thing of\u200c all\u2014now \u2063he seems normal.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dbeauty of young men means nothing in America today. It was never so previously\u2014we always saw something wonderful \u200cin the growing\u200c strength and confidence of a new generation. The young man \u2062was perhaps our exemplar of freedom. So many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/review-untold-johnny-football\/\" title=\"Review: 'Untold: Johnny Football' - a must-watch!\">technologies required \u2064young\u2062 men<\/a>\u2062 to pilot them, too, all the way to \u2064the moon.\u2063 Maybe football \u200bis the last avenue to\u2062 see such beauty and danger, success and suffering. I \u200cfinally understand why men \u2062like college football and why \u2062they were enthusiastic about \u200cJohnny Manziel, so I suppose \u200dI \u2063am myself middle-aged now. We\u2019re all \u200bhoping\u200b America \u2062can create \u200dand foster such young\u2062 men \u200das will make up for our own failing strength.<\/p>\n<p><em>Untold: Johnny \u2062Football <em>is streaming on\u2062 Netflix<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Titus Techera \u2062is the executive director of\u200d the American Cinema Foundation\u200c and\u200b a film critic for<\/em> \u200bLaw &#038; Liberty, <em>the\u200b Acton Institute&#8217;s<\/em> Religion &#038; Liberty,\u2064 <em>and the<\/em> Free Press.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad boys were once significant in American entertainment. Eminem, now resorting to legal action with Vivek Ramaswamy, was once a prime example. Rap served as the final frontier for bad boys; speaking crudely about women was the norm. Actors would also engage in wild behavior or brawls. Those days are now fading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1890,"featured_media":2026578,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"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\/2026577","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\/1890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2026578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}