Scooby Doo (Johnny Manziel) wins the Heisman Trophy
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Looking back, a day after the event, you do of course have to empathize with the Heisman voters. In fairness to them, it is not like they had any alternative in selecting their Heisman winner. Clearly they didn't have anyone else to choose, I mean, it's not like they had the hard working, emotional and football-passionate leader of an unbeaten team with four ranked teams amongst it's scalps.
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It's not like they had the fearsome defensive captain of a team that led the entire NCAA in points allowed per game (an almost unbelievable 10). It's not like they had the ferocious leader of a defence that's going to play for the BCS title in January whom they could have selected instead of Johnny Police Record.
I'm going to come out and say it. Very odd choice by the Heisman voters. They had a chance to pick a football player who does nothing but eat, sleep and drink the game. A ferocious, hard nosed tackler who's devotion to football is only second to his family and his studies. Not only that, they had a chance to pick a winner, who has driven his team to a unbeaten season and a chance to play for the title.
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They had a choice between that, and this nincompoop?
Seriously Heisman voters?
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Update! 18th January 2012
Well, well, well. How about that! Thanks to Manti Te'o, Johnny Football all of a sudden looks like a choir boy! You can read my full apology to Johnny in this Manti Te'o article. Is there a lesson in all of this? Perhaps, like the tagline of the movie Traffic, ''No One Gets Away Clean''.
Hopefully your Texas folk are enjoying the whole Te'o revelation, and judging by the emails and comments, you sure are.
If you have a dictionary somewhere look up the term 'Schadenfreude'. In the meantime, once again, congratulations Johnny, as it turns out, you were not the least worthy character based candidate!
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DaddyMac22 | Jan 22, 2013, 12:25 PM EST
@cspencer71007: Thanks so much for the positive and constructive feedback!! That's just fantastic. Hope you enjoyed said joke!!
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DaddyMac22 | Jan 22, 2013, 12:23 PM EST
@cspencer71007: Thanks so much for the positive and constructive feedback!! That's just fantastic. Hope you enjoyed said joke!!
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DaddyMac22 | Jan 22, 2013, 12:23 PM EST
@cspencer71007: Thanks so much for the positive and constructive feedback!! That's just fantastic. Hope you enjoyed said joke!!
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cspencer71007 | Jan 21, 2013, 03:45 AM EST
This blog is a joke, and shame on Notre Dame for being a party to Manti's lies. Is there anything left to say?
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s0phb0x | Jan 17, 2013, 07:36 PM EST
Hi, s0phb0x - what do you think about this? I think this is the most laughable blog I have ever read! So what if Johnny Football likes a good time - he's a WINNER. Manti Te'o is a LOSER (see his reprehensible performance against Alabama when it counted) and he defrauded Heisman voters and the American public by inventing a girlfriend. I guarantee Cormac Eklof feels incredibly stupid today...
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Truth | Jan 17, 2013, 04:29 PM EST
So my original comment got deleted, like all of these South Bend Tribune articles about Te'o and his girlfriend. You Irish are too much.
Fiction-writing, average linebackers, rapists on the football team, the fake Gipper story, Joe THEESman, Rudy. Cover-ups and sensationalism at Notre Dame. Fools Gold.
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johnJ | Jan 17, 2013, 12:17 PM EST
Wow, Te'o the man of character made up a girlfriend and killed her off in hopes of getting Heisman votes he did not deserve. Now Notre Dame, the school good at covering up screw ups lately from the girl to the scissor lift embarrassments is going all in with their lying player. So much for Christianity.
Face it Domers, NOBODY is buying it, too many holes and the screen captures have all been made so delete all you want. Facts are that you tried like Hell Manti to win yourself an award you did not deserve and your embarrassment of a school help you in your scheme. Nobody is buying it!
And those weren't missed tackles in the NC game, no that was Manti hugging his made up dead girlfriend. That ought to help that draft status if you spin it appropriately.
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JohnnyHeisman | Jan 17, 2013, 11:28 AM EST
YellerBelly - You really need a "timeout". You're only showing your envy in Johnny and embarrassment in Notre Shame with your attacks.
Calling Johnny a criminal for a schoolboy prank ID and being drunk is laughable. Unlike Te'o, Johnny learned from his stupid mistake and I'll bet you he never has another issue (other than speeding like me).
Johnny gives his time to charitable organizations and individuals. The article author is equally as ignorant and apparently never had a party. The pictures of Johnny enjoying some Halloween partying might not represent saint-hood but it certainly isn't symptomatic of a dark-twisted individual. You guys own that individual.
As for Johnny's NFL future, sure any QB is likely to suffer an injury but you point to a RG3 and I point to a 5'11" Tyler Wilson with Seattle, who is more like Johnny.
Just accept your faux-heisman candidates disgrace and use those Irish prayers for him.
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tpmchris | Jan 17, 2013, 08:13 AM EST
What was that about character?
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puro_ag | Jan 17, 2013, 04:41 AM EST
Oh the delusional fail by the Dome asses. If only JFF was smart enough to only party with imaginary girls like Manti
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Ketchum | Jan 17, 2013, 01:25 AM EST
Well at least the Heisman trophy winner was pictured with REAL girls, not the make believe ones that Teo had. Teo showed in the BCS bowl how legit he was, missed tackle after missed tackle. He shouldn't have even gone to NY. The media looks really foolish now falling for his story but you can blame Notre Dame itself for going along with the lie just to try to manipulate the Heisman to where it didn't belong.
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YellerBelly | Jan 08, 2013, 10:33 AM EST
Sure he's a Heisman winner and Cotton Bowl MVP. But he's still a criminal with a penchant for lame, ironic costumes and easy women. Give me a stand-up guy with class and integrity in Te'o anyday. A man, not a child, who will have a major impact in the NFL unlike an undersized, running quarterback (Anybody see what happened to RGIII. Sure, haters. You're right. He'll always have "his Heisman" and his "Freshman scoring records in the SEC". But very likely like former Heisman bust, Tim Couch, he'll be that guy out of the league in 3 years or so failing to catch onto a team as a backup. An the neighborhood kids will dare each other to knock on his door and ask "Were you really a Heisman. Can I please see it?"
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DaddyMac22 | Jan 07, 2013, 05:59 AM EST
@tpmchris: not one of those yards changes the fact he is of dubious character, at best.
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tpmchris | Jan 05, 2013, 06:49 AM EST
How about 516 total yards (Cotton Bowl record) for Mr. Johnny Football in a blowout?
Checkmate
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