Don, the site for some reason does not allow me to respond to your quotes, probably because they are so full of crap (kidding!) but let me address what I think was your main point-that Manziel is a drunk or alcoholic.
I don't know that his stint at a rehab facility is proof of that. Rehab stays for celebrities are ritual moral cleansing displays, that attempt to rehabilitate the public image more then the body. Modern society has a female like fetish for these mostly phony displays of public contrition at the hands of mental health care charlatans in the same way previous generations insisted upon religious conversions to repair bad moral character.
As you well know, the "drunk" label is thrown around mercilessly against white athletes (including the guy in your avatar-who even embraced it, despite being the best at his sport while seemingly a raging alcoholic) so I'm somewhat skeptical of how bad a drunk he is.
I think what bugs me most about this controversy is the whole idea that the NFL is some kind of role model machine that needs to ensure it's players aren't out giving people the idea that they are less then model citizens. That of course is ridiculous. With players involved in video taped spousal abuse, guns going off in night clubs, Pac Man Jones type escapades, murderers going free, pictures of a guy having fun in a night club on his bye week seem laughable by comparison.
Yes I know it's all racial, Matt Jones can't drink a beer but Lawrence Taylor can be a well known coke abusing whore monger/hall of famer. It's not just that the double standard is so egregious, it's that it's so silly. No one who follows the game in any manner, and that includes young kids, thinks these guys are decent people. In fact the attraction of the NFL has become that it is a sort of reality show based on 'thug life'. NFL popularity goes up with each new scandal, and as with the rest of society there doesn't appear to be any reason for some old fashion morality to be returning.
I'd like to see the rigid racial stereotypes of all white players as hard working, clean living, Christian soldiers, and all black players being aggressive, thug alphas, be changed, because one of the tenets of the caste system is that white guys are not man enough to be the bad asses the NFL wants. I remember the days when there were plenty of white guys that were, frankly, hyper aggressive jerks, that were highly successful. That's when the league was much more racially balanced and I think the reason was that white players could also be high testosterone borderline psycho's. Until a hard drinking/partying white player is successful you will continue to have the extreme racial divide in the NFL with few whites.
Name a single current white NFL player with a reputation as a partier in the manner of a Namath, Stabler, Bobby Lane, John Riggins, etc.
