Who are you Johnny Football?

Ok pride listen up because I have a random life lesson to hash out. Sometime mid to late summer of 2012 a man by the name of Kevin Sumlin choose a scrawny kid from the hill country of south Texas to be the starting quarterback for the Texas A&M Aggies, this choice will prove to be the tipping point of Coach Sumlins career in my personal (and not even a little professional) opinion. The young man in question is none other than Johnny "Football" Manziel and this guy has talent. To put it in perspective for those of you that have no idea who Johnny "Football" is and you don't live under a rock, he is the first person in history to have one the Heisman Trophy as a freshman in college. For part time football fans that may not follow awards like full blown die hard football fans, name off every football player you have ever heard of. Done? Now think about this, none of the people you thought of ever won the same award when they were freshmen, none of those people were from Kerrville Texas, and none of them did the impossible in a division that considers it's self to be the ivy league of football schools. Who is Johnny Football, who is this new shinning star in the great state of Texas? Who is the man that will represent all Texans as his career takes off?

I don't think I have a snowballs chance in Mexico to explain who Johnny Football is because all I know about him is what I have read, heard, or seen on T.V so what I say here is purely rhetoric that's been stirred around my very spacious meat head. As I see it from where I stand Johnny Football is a persona created by fans/family of Johnny Manziel.

Johnny Football is the guy that looks good, has an super hot girlfriend, and is a very talented football quarterback. Johnny Football will end up much like Broadway Joe, remember him? Oh everyone loved Broadway Joe but they loved him cause he was right, had he been wrong, history would have written him more like the fool than the savior. I was always told that there is a thin line between genius and stupidity, and our friend Johnny Football will show us in the years to come which he is. I get that he's young and suddenly in the spotlight which if you follow pop culture only one of two things happen.

Either Johnny fails to have as good or better year than his freshman season at Texas A&M and is totally killed by the national media and forgotten two weeks later. Or the other option which is Johnny "Football" will continue with his success and be drafted 1st overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft. Now since I don't believe in fairy tales coming true right before my eyes so what happens in the NFL, i'd hate to take a shot and then have to wipe egg off my face a few years later. I did try that once and I the great RW and VY embarrassed my predictions. I do believe that Manziel is a damn good quarterback and I do see him succeeding in the SEC or any other conference for that matter because his coach (Sumlin) believes in him and has built, trained, and orchestrated the team to give all the power to the quarterback. When any player has a coach that believes in them and then does everything in his power to make them successful, if they are as special as "The Kerrville Kid," they can't help but succeed. Now, at this point in Johnny Football's fifteen minutes of fame, he is just getting settled in because once he won the Heisman trophy he extended the zoom on the lens of the world and in the wild world of sports that kind of exposure doesn't wear off quickly. Just ask Ryan Leaf, Tanya Harding, and a few dozen other flamed sports figures. The difference between this group and the A&M standout is that he will excel with class and maturity and if he was to fail he would fail the same way he excelled. I have seen the pictures of him flashing the money and I've also seen the show boating with the guys from dudeperfect.com and neither of these things make me feel any less proud that he is a fellow Texan.

The old white haired folks that used to direct the way the country went are no longer the moral standard considering all the fraud, cheating, and many other scandalous affairs infecting our governments, churches, and neighborhoods. Johnny Manziel may not be the quiet but confident Peyton Manning but he'll never be a Mike Vick in my "so-not-professional" opinion he will be in the middle. He may show how much fun he's actually having but how can he not, he wasn't even expected to be a starter much less a record setting Heisman Trophy winner. If this is his fantasy life then let him live it up a little because in the rough world of professional athletics, it doesn't take much to loose it all so enjoy what you have in life while you have it.