Saw Johnny Football's debut in person and he played well, not great but good . A couple of breaks and he might have had a big game.
One thing that I noticed amongst his considerable fans was how many younger white guys (20 somethings) were big Manziel supporters, even at a road game. After I thought about it I realized that this is THEIR guy. Johnny Football is the idealized hero to them.
I kinda see Manziel as a bit of a whigger, but then I see every white kid around that age as a little bit of a whigger. To me they do stuff that seems "black", most have black mannerisms of a kind that would have gotten their ass kicked in my day. However this is 2014 and these guys are growing up in a different world.
Manziel is seen as cool to them, he's brash, parties, likes the ladies, is successful, and unlike nearly every other white sports star, gets some love from the media.
What other football guy could fit that mold? Aging pretty boy Tom Brady? Old guy Peyton Manning, super religious Tim Tebow or any of the other straight laced boy scouts that play QB?
Manziel has tapped into a open void in pro sports, especially football, the lack of a young white role model that fits the lifestyle and thinking of a generation of kids that have been the major victims in the raging culture war against white people and culture. I wish him well.