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[indistinct chatter]

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[male presenter] Next,
we induct one of the most pivotal players

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in Texas A&M history.

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-[commentators]
-Oh, my gracious.

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-Yep.
-How about that?

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[excitedly] A&M did it. They just did it.

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[presenter] …won a Heisman Trophy.

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-[commentators]
-Here comes Johnny Football.

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The Heisman Trophy, for the first time,
has gone to a freshman quarterback.

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He is must-watch TV.

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[presenter]
He is a living legend, Johnny Manziel.

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[audience cheering, applauding]

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[Johnny] Let me paint a little picture
for you of how I'm able to sit here today

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and be on this stage at 29 years old.

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When I stepped on campus in 2011,
it didn't look like this.

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[crowd] Johnny Football!

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[commentator] He's taken on
Rolling Stones, Beatles status.

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This stadium didn't look like this…

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[crowd singing team's anthem]

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…we didn't have the buzz
that we have today.

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[man] …brought A&M
back to national prominence.

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[commentator] In the preseason,
hardly anyone knew who Johnny Manziel was.

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It'd be very easy to turn your back

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on some of the things
I was doing in my life,

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and I live with a lot of regret.

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[woman] New trouble for Johnny Manziel.

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-[man] …under investigation for assault.
-Manziel has gone into rehab.

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The family fears he is spiraling
out of control.

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[Johnny] But at the same time,
I've lived with a lot of pride.

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I am beyond thankful
for each and every Aggie in this room

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that's supported me through the good,

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through the bad,

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and through times that really
just didn't even make sense for me.

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From the bottom of my heart,
I wanna say thank you very much.

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Thanks and Gig 'em.

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[audience cheering, applauding]

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[man] Ooh, I loved it when you were here.

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Through all the shenanigans,
I still loved it.

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Thank you very much.

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-What's up?
-[boy] You're why I love A&M.

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[Johnny] Thank you, bro.

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-What are you doing these days?
-Living in Scottsdale, enjoying life.

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You got your private airplane yet?

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Not yet. I'm working on it.

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-We gotta do the money sign.
-I got you.

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-Thank you.
-Good to see you, guys.

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-Thanks for everything.
-Good to see you.

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-[man] Good to see you.
-Good to see you.

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How are you? Thank you, bro.
Good to see you guys.

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Good to see you. I appreciate it.

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-[indistinct chatter, laughter]
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[man] Oh, what the fuck?

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You do not change bats
in the middle of the series, dawg.

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-Whoo-hoo.
-[echoing] Oh…

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[Johnny] There is who you are
as a football player,

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and then, there is
who you are as a human being,

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and the two, for me,
were just really different.

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I almost felt like I had an alter ego.

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I wanted to be Johnny Football.
Johnny Football never had a bad time.

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So, when people asked me, "Do you like
the nickname Johnny Football?"

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I fucking loved it.

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I thought it was awesome.

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JFF, Johnny Fucking Football. What's up?

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-[pop music playing]
-[clapperboard dinging]

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["Your Sweet Love"
by Lee Hazlewood playing]

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♪ Stranger's arms ♪

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♪ Reach out to me ♪

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♪ 'Cause they know ♪

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♪ I'm so lonely ♪

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♪ Then my mind goes back ♪

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♪ To you ♪

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♪ And your sweet love ♪

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♪ Sees me through ♪

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-[Johnny panting heavily]
-[owl hooting]

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-[referee blowing whistle]

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[Johnny] Football is everything in Texas.

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You know, If you don't play football,
you're either too big of a pussy to play,

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or you're just not any good.

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["Cruise" by Florida Georgia Line playing]

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♪ Baby, you're a song ♪

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♪ You make me wanna roll my windows down
And cruise… ♪

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[Johnny] Town closes down
when it's Friday night and there's game.

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The football team was the lifeline.

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[presenter] Johnny Football!

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First time I met Johnny
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We both loved video games, um,
we both loved football,

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we both loved girls,

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so we had all the most important things
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The Johnny I know is a kid

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who wanted to be the very best
football player you could possibly be

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and, after that,
go drink some beers out on a ranch,

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drive a 20-year-old truck over to do it.

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[Johnny] Called him Uncle Nate.
He was like my right-hand man.

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We were just good old country boys.

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If you've seen Friday Night Lights,
you've seen anything like that…

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-Clear eyes, full hearts…
-Can't lose!

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…that's what Kerrville was.

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The intensity, all of it.
The, you know, hard-ass dads.

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Johnny was born on my birthday.

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♪ Happy birthday, dear Jonathan… ♪

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[Paul] We have the same mannerisms,
the same birthdays.

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He's me made over, pretty much.

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[woman] There he is.

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Paul!

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Discipline in our family
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You just teach 'em
to do the right thing all the time.

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[instrumental music playing]

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We truly are each other's best friends.

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End of my 4th-grade year,
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and it was
a totally different pace of life for us.

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[Nate] Tivy High School was very much
a military-style football program,

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and all of your best friends
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so you're not gonna be the asshole
that stands out. Just fall in line.

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My dad wanted me to be in that program
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Your first period of the day,
7 a.m., is football.

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Different weight room stations
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Six stations, six coaches,

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and then after school, you practice again,
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The Kerrville way, the Tivy way,

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the "Tivy fight never dies,"
that whole mantra that we had

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lasted until the second you walked outta
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[crowd chattering]

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[Paul] In his 10th-grade year,
Johnny got the start.

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[players shouting]

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And I remember sitting in the stands
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"Who is this Manziel kid?"
"There's some new kid starting tonight."

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I was like, "Oh my gosh, here we go."

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[crowd cheering]

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[commentator] Here come the Antlers!

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We ran a play called "tin trap",
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they're gonna trap the noseguard,

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and you're gonna run
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[exciting music playing]

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It just parted like the Red Sea.

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You know, just a perfect alley
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Took off, touchdown.

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[commentator] Touchdown, Tivy.

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And there's a yellow flag.
Holding. It's called back.

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So now we're on the 10-yard line.

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The coach signals in to play "Sky 2".

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I look at the wristband.

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I look down, I look up,
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and this motherfucker called
tin trap again.

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[commentator] Snap to Manziel.

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Looks like he's gonna
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[Johnny] Take it from the 10-yard line

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all the way to the house
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[commentator] A 90-yard touchdown
from Johnny Manziel.

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-[referee blowing whistle]
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[presenter] It all starts here

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and on thousands of football fields
like this all over the country.

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It's where the quarterbacks of tomorrow
learn their future skills.

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[man] Everybody wants to be
the quarterback.

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Nobody's watching the nose tackle except
for the nose tackle's wife and mother.

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I think the way that I played quarterback,
it was just a different kind of football.

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[crowd cheering]

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I always watched Brett Favre growing up,

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a guy who'd run around
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Brett Favre, and I like Vince Young.

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Vince Young is who I'd like
to have my style known as.

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There's a play that I will remember
for the rest of my life.

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Vince Young, pump fake…

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[commentator] Great pump fake.

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…and the defender jumped.

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Say goodbye to Vince Young.

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It fit me how I wanted to play football.
It fit me how I naturally played football.

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Always try to keep the elbow
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As a quarterback,

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square your shoulders up with the line
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You wanna see the ball secure,
not flopping around.

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[Johnny] Even though I was 5'10",
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you know, I didn't even
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[commentator] Manziel. Touchdown, Antlers.

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It was just run around
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and don't let that guy tackle you.
Throw it to the guy that's open.

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-[players shouting]
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[Nate] I remember he straight-up hurdled
a dude that was standing up straight.

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[referee blowing whistle]

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He was playing with children,
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[commentator] He had seven touchdowns

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in the first half
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You look at his numbers,
and he has not disappointed it.

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[commentator 1] He picked up

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the Associated Press
Player of the Year award.

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[commentator 2] Johnny Manziel
certainly lives up to the hype.

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[announcer]
Touchdown. Touchdown, Johnny Manziel.

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[commentator 3] Coming into senior season,
check out these numbers. 3,609 yards.

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Seventy-five touchdowns?

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I thought that was a typo. I thought
that was for his career, not this season!

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[Johnny] My senior year,
I started to get recruited a little bit.

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Not anything crazy,

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but I wanted to play football
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But I'd never really gotten anything

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other than your basic,
normal recruiting letters.

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[Paul] He grew up
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Longhorn this, Longhorn that,

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and I really think
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and it just didn't work out.

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[players cheering watchwords]

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[Johnny] I remember walking
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and my coach goes,
"Texas A&M just offered you a full ride."

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[narrator] It is not a simple thing,
the making of a quarterback.

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It is the stuff of which legends are made.

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[crowd cheering watchwords]

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["Spies in Overalls" instrumental playing]

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[man narrating] Texas A&M was all male,
all military for a long time.

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A&M's always had a reputation
as the blue-collar school of the state.

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It's the roll-up-your-sleeves,
it's the gritty school.

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You know, back in the day,

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it's where the people from the rural parts
of Texas came to college.

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It's been interesting,
the last 20 years or so,

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because college football's changing.

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[broadcaster] The Big 12 Conference
is about to get smaller.

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Texas A&M University gave its notice
to the athletic conference,

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said it plans to leave the league
by next July.

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One of the things that we talk about
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the athletic department is the front porch
to the university.

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For more and more universities
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success on the football field now equals
a higher profile for the entire school.

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[woman narrator] A&M is moving towards
a jump to the Southeast Conference

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as SEC is home to teams
like Florida, Auburn, and LSU.

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We're talking about exposure,
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billion-dollar decisions here, and more.

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Welcome to the SEC.

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They were basically saying,

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"This is a defining moment
in our program's history,"

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but there were a lot of people
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"Is this the best move?"

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[commentator]
We're talking about a football program

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that's three games over .500
the last nine seasons.

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We're not talking about
a national superpower here.

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At the time, we would've been considered
middle of the road in the Big 12,

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and there was a national narrative
that Texas A&M cannot compete in the SEC.

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[commentator] The SEC has
five national championships in a row.

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They're going into the toughest league
in the country. We all know that.

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And it's the toughest by a long shot.

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[Billy] And then
there was a coaching change.

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I wanna welcome Kevin Sumlin
as new head football coach at Texas A&M.

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They hired Kevin Sumlin,

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and he had an offensive coordinator
by the name of Kliff Kingsbury,

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and he had this wide-open,
high-flying offense.

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[journalist] How does this offense
translate going against SEC defense?

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Hell, we'll find out. We'll find out.

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[Billy] But what no one knew

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was they had this kid
from Kerrville, Texas,

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this quarterback named Johnny Manziel.

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One of Texas A&M's
potential starting quarterbacks

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was arrested early this morning
in Northgate.

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Patrol officers say
they saw two men fighting.

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One of the two was Manziel.

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Johnny and one of his crappy high school
friends were down in College Station,

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ends up turning into a fight.

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Johnny has a fake ID on him, goes to jail.

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You know,
I don't have much of a recollection

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other than waking up shirtless
on a concrete bench in Bryan County Jail,

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and they said that wasn't very,
um, normal of my character.

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I guess looking back now,
maybe it is a little bit normal

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for my character.

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Johnny'd gotten in some trouble,
but I remember Kliff Kingsbury telling me,

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"You know that's the guy, right?
No matter what."

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When he got in-line in fall camp,
it was like a different human.

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It was like,
"All right, y'all about to see why."

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[shouting watchwords]

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Our first game was at home at Kyle Field
against the University of Florida,

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and Johnny Manziel's
making his first start.

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[commentator]
Steps it outside, nothing doing.

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Manziel just couldn't beat 'em
with his arm.

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Rough, rough sledding.

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We end up losing 21-17,
something like that.

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I'm walking home, get to the end
of the street right in front of the house,

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and there are so many
"for sale" signs in my yard,

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and I just remember looking at 'em
being like, "Welcome to the fucking SEC."

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But then, our second game
was a road game at SMU.

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[Billy] Now, I remember Kliff telling me
after that first game,

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"I should've just let him do his thing."

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And from that point and on,
I think he did that.

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And then Johnny happened.

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[commentator] First down and ten,
Manziel pumps once.

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Now he is forced out of the pocket.

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He's running, and some of those guys
back there don't know.

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Oh, broken tackle. 20.
Cutting back to his left.

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He's gonna get in. That's a touchdown.

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It just all happened,
so free and so natural,

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and was just everything aligning
right with the universe,

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the way that it should be.

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[commentator] He got away from that guy.
Now he's gonna throw under duress.

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And he made a catch!
Manziel is a magician today.

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It's unbelievable.
We're watching him grow up here.

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At A&M, we had a saying.
It was "Win or lose, we booze."

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And it was real tr… real true.

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-[slurping]
-[exciting music playing]

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[commentator] Here's Manziel,
breaks a tackle.

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-In the end zone! Yeah!
-[crowd cheering]

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70 to 14. A&M improves to two and one.

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People think of athletes as being
these super disciplined, on a diet,

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just being absolutely committed
to their craft.

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[commentator] Manziel going deep.
It's caught. This may be 80 yards.

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[Nate] I never saw him look at a playbook
ever. I've never seen it happen.

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After football,
he didn't talk about football.

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So it was as if he was just
doing this thing on the side,

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and the reason wasn't to be badass

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and win and do
all these unbelievable feats,

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it was for what happens after you win.

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[commentator] He's got the first down.
He's got the end zone. Touchdown!

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[Billy] I've never seen the A&M fan base,
the power brokers,

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and everybody as confident as they were,
because it was lightning in a bottle.

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And A&M fans could say, "That's my guy."

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"He's one of us."

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[Kliff] As everything's blowing up,
I think he just rolled with it.

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So we're going
to Mississippi State on Friday,

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Friday morning we see these pictures…
[laughs]

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…and he's in a Scooby-Doo outfit,

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and you can tell
he's obviously had a couple of cocktails.

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[Johnny] I remember opening my eyes
and seeing our grad assistant saying,

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"Kliff send me over here
to come and grab you,"

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gave him a little shit about it,
and he's like,

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"Listen, bud, we're in the thick of
an SEC race right now,

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so we gotta have you on the field."

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And he rolls out there hungover,

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goes through the walk-through,
he's pouring sweat.

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And I just looked at him and said,
"You better fucking play good."

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[commentator] Rolling right.
He's wide open.

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He is gonna get another first down.

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He's after the, a--
He's cutting back to his right.

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He just scored!
I don't know how he did it.

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[Kliff] He plays one of the best games
he's ever played,

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and for the rest of the season,
I always put the ball in his hands.

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[commentator] And the legend of No 2
continues to build.

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I don't think many people had kinda seen
someone play that way and live that way.

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It's funny too. Johnny coming in,
bringing that renegade element to it.

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It was interesting to see A&M,
the old heads, sit back and go,

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"You know what? We're gonna go with this."

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At that point, it was like,
"This has been fun."

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You know, "The little white kid
running around making plays has been fun,

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but… but welcome to reality.
Here comes Alabama."

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[suspenseful music escalates]

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-[different commentators]
-The Cotton Bowl is dominated by Alabama.

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The Crimson Tide of Alabama is
on the flood this New Year's Day.

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Alabama wins the inaugural
Southeastern Conference Championship.

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Crimson Tide wins
the National Championship.

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Alabama. They win the BCS Championship.

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Fourteen national championships.
Man, that's pretty much all you gotta say.

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[Billy] What is it
about the Crimson Tide this year,

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last year, that's made them
so good under Nick Saban?

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You mean the last four years?

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[narrator] Nick Saban is the most dominant
head coach in the college football

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and maybe all of American sports.

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I remember before the Alabama game,
somebody said, "Good luck."

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Does A&M have a chance to win this game?

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[man] A&M has as much chance
of beating Alabama

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-as I do to hit the lottery.
-[laughing]

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Kliff saying, "We don't need it.
We got Johnny."

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[commentator] A hundred and one thousand
will fill this place

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by the time we kick it off.

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[crowd] Whoo!

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[Johnny] Day of the game,
I watch the movie 300,

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and I tweet this out
before we walk into the stadium,

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And that felt like the perfect spot
that we could be in.

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[crowd booing, whistling]

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[Johnny] We have zero expectations
to win this game.

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[players shouting watchwords]
Win, win, win…

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[Johnny] And when you have that
"What the fuck? Does it really matter?"

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attitude, you play better.

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[commentator] Manziel takes off again.

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[crowd cheering]

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[commentator] Uh-oh. Stiff arm.

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[Johnny] We came out and scored
on our first three drives of the game.

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[commentator]
Four-man Alabama rush. Got him.

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Oh no, they didn't.

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-Oh, my gracious.
-[commentator 1] Yep.

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[commentator] How about that?

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Boom, score, 14-nothing.
Get a stop. Boom, 20-nothing.

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[commentator] A&M has been unstoppable.

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[Kliff] It was the fastest
we've ever started.

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Johnny was on fire, running, throwing,
and that place got quiet really quickly.

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[commentator] Alabama fans are going,

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"I've never seen anything like this
in my life."

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But then, day turns to night.
'Bama comes back.

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[commentator] Touchdown, Alabama.

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This is a stacked,
stacked Alabama offense.

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[commentator]
Lacy left side. Lacy leaning.

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Lacy's in!

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'Bama had all the momentum,

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and it was looking
like you were gonna let one get away.

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[commentator] And Manziel knows it.
Alabama is still alive.

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[Billy] Johnny walks over where I am

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with some national media people,
and he said,

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"Fuck Nick Saban.
Fuck Alabama. That's it."

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"We're scoring a touchdown
right here. Watch."

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[Johnny] Next play is a fake wheel
around the sideline,

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and I probably throw the best pass
I've ever thrown in my life.

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-[commentator] He's got Swope.
-My gosh, what a pass!

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Swope never broke stride.

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Get to the 20, see man coverage.

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I do our check.
Malcome Kennedy runs a corner.

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Wobbly ball, and we score.

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[commentator] Ball wobbles, it's caught!

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Touchdown!

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Malcome Kennedy.

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Comes running off the sideline,
and he's saying, "I fucking told you."

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And the national media guy looks at me
and goes, "Dude's a witch."

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[shouting] Let's get this over with.
Right now! Right now!

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[Billy] Those two plays,

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you know, changed Johnny's life.

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[Johnny] Finally, at the very end,
50 seconds left,

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you go and you take a knee in Tuscaloosa,
and you win the game.

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[commentator] A&M did it.
They just did it.

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Lightning in a bottle in Tuscaloosa.

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[commentator 1]
And did Johnny Football put himself

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in position to be a Heisman Trophy winner?

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You walk off the field like a fucking G.

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-[clock ticking]
-[low tempo music playing]

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[Johnny] The feeling walking
into that locker room after

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was such a joy and a rush
for you and your boys.

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To do the undoable,
to beat the unbeatable,

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and to… [inhales deeply]

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…really change the course
of our history for… forever.

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[crowd cheering]

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[Johnny] And I didn't know

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how serious it was
until I walked outta the locker room.

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I would always go find my parents.

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I couldn't find 'em.

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[air horn honking]

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By the time we got to Johnny,

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it is a mob.

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[Johnny] I gave 'em, like,
a two-second hug

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and immediately wanted to get on the bus.

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He looked at me, and he had this fear
in his eye that I've never seen before.

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[Johnny] When I got on the bus,
I was like, "Holy fuck."

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"What is this?"

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I think that's really where my role in…
in this begins, for sure.

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I mean, I always had a role as a friend,
but it becomes a little more defined

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when he has trouble
getting around publicly.

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[commentator] Johnny Manziel is the talk
of the sports world.

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[Johnny] It was just pure chaos, 24/7,
if you stepped out of the house.

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Look at this T-shirt right here.
Supporting Johnny. Look.

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[presenter] Texas A&M is looking to profit
from the success of their quarterback.

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The team store is selling his jersey
for the first time this season.

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[Johnny] And one thing that came with it
was people seeking autographs.

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And so, Nate turned into,
like, a manager for me.

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Everything went through Nate.

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The resources that should've been there
for Johnny definitely weren't.

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Had they been,
I wouldn't have been part of this picture.

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[Kliff] We didn't have the support.
We didn't know what to do.

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He couldn't go to class
because people would just mob him.

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They had to put him in online classes,

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which, for Johnny Football,
is not a good idea.

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[presenter] What makes this story
so amazing is that, in the preseason,

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hardly anyone knew who Johnny Manziel was.

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[female presenter]
A young man they call Johnny Football.

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-Johnny Football?
-Yeah, Johnny Football, Johnny Manziel.

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I was dealing with a lot of media requests
for Johnny on a national scale,

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but at the time,
Coach Sumlin had a policy:

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"Freshmen do not talk to the media."

461
00:23:17,145 --> 00:23:19,648
[Kliff] It played a huge role
in the intrigue

462
00:23:19,731 --> 00:23:21,233
and the mystery of what he was

463
00:23:21,316 --> 00:23:22,943
'cause he never spoke.

464
00:23:23,026 --> 00:23:25,112
So it was like, "Who is this masked man?"

465
00:23:25,195 --> 00:23:27,989
-[commentator] Here comes Johnny Football.
-There goes Johnny Football.

466
00:23:28,073 --> 00:23:30,617
-[commentator 2] Can you say "magic"?
-He's magic.

467
00:23:30,700 --> 00:23:33,078
And then, you throw on,
you know, first year in the SEC,

468
00:23:33,161 --> 00:23:34,204
he's unbelievably talented,

469
00:23:34,287 --> 00:23:36,206
he's definitely
kind of this bad-boy figure.

470
00:23:36,289 --> 00:23:37,541
My phone was ringing.

471
00:23:38,333 --> 00:23:40,877
He was j-- It was… It was unbelievable.

472
00:23:40,961 --> 00:23:44,965
[presenter] Adidas has actually run out of
the blank maroon No 2 jerseys.

473
00:23:45,048 --> 00:23:47,759
[presenter 1]
Manziel's legend grows just as fast.

474
00:23:47,843 --> 00:23:49,302
[car honking]

475
00:23:49,386 --> 00:23:53,473
He transcended certainly college football,
but also sports.

476
00:23:53,557 --> 00:23:54,933
[presenter] Sent home from school

477
00:23:55,016 --> 00:23:57,853
with a Johnny Manziel carved
into the back of his head.

478
00:23:57,936 --> 00:24:01,148
You know, it just keeps growing,
and then, he's a household name.

479
00:24:01,231 --> 00:24:06,570
Welcome into Johnny Manziel
and Jim Muncy's world of fantasy football.

480
00:24:06,653 --> 00:24:09,573
♪ Johnny Football ♪

481
00:24:10,073 --> 00:24:14,536
♪ You're an angel to us ♪

482
00:24:14,911 --> 00:24:16,413
[indistinct chatter]

483
00:24:16,496 --> 00:24:19,499
[Cannon] We had one week
before the Heisman ballots were due,

484
00:24:19,583 --> 00:24:22,335
and Johnny did
a press conference on campus.

485
00:24:23,044 --> 00:24:24,713
[presenter] All right,
ladies and gentlemen,

486
00:24:24,796 --> 00:24:27,507
thank you for coming today.
It's my honor and privilege

487
00:24:27,591 --> 00:24:31,803
to introduce a young man
that's about to turn 20 on December 6th,

488
00:24:31,887 --> 00:24:35,140
Texas A&M quarterback, Johnny Manziel.

489
00:24:35,223 --> 00:24:37,476
-We'll start over here to the right.
-[shutters clicking]

490
00:24:37,559 --> 00:24:39,561
[journalist] Johnny,
Pedro Gomez from ESPN.

491
00:24:39,644 --> 00:24:42,522
There's so much talk about a freshman
possibly winning the Heisman--

492
00:24:42,606 --> 00:24:44,274
[journalist 1]
You're a legend in Kerrville.

493
00:24:44,357 --> 00:24:46,067
What advice can you give
to all high-school--

494
00:24:46,151 --> 00:24:47,944
[journalist 2]
You're the favorite for Heisman.

495
00:24:48,028 --> 00:24:50,113
People are talking about even two.
Does that scare you?

496
00:24:50,197 --> 00:24:52,574
[woman] What is the craziest thing
a fan's done for you?

497
00:24:52,657 --> 00:24:55,869
I did see people in Scooby-Doo costumes
at the game the other day.

498
00:24:55,952 --> 00:24:58,580
-I'm gonna put that up there at the top.
-[journalists laughing]

499
00:24:58,663 --> 00:25:00,248
The winner of this year's Heisman Trophy

500
00:25:00,332 --> 00:25:02,501
will be announced Saturday
right here in New York.

501
00:25:02,584 --> 00:25:04,878
[female presenter]
Manziel is considered the favorite.

502
00:25:04,961 --> 00:25:07,797
He'd be the first freshman ever
to win the trophy.

503
00:25:07,881 --> 00:25:09,716
[presenter]
The Heisman Trophy will be awarded

504
00:25:09,799 --> 00:25:11,510
just a few hours from now,

505
00:25:11,593 --> 00:25:14,429
and we are honored
to be joined by the finalists.

506
00:25:14,513 --> 00:25:17,516
This was for all three of you. We got
a couple of seniors here and a freshman.

507
00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:20,227
Does any of that matter anymore
when determining the Heisman?

508
00:25:20,310 --> 00:25:22,395
I'd like to hear from all of you on that.

509
00:25:23,188 --> 00:25:24,856
I don't think so. Um, I think--

510
00:25:27,734 --> 00:25:31,446
Good evening, everyone. I'm Jim Nantz.
We're at the home of the Heisman Trophy,

511
00:25:31,530 --> 00:25:34,616
the most prestigious prize
in all of college sports.

512
00:25:35,659 --> 00:25:38,745
[Johnny] You know, I'd watched
every Heisman ceremony since I was a kid.

513
00:25:40,539 --> 00:25:43,083
I remember the Reggie year,
the Matt Leinart year,

514
00:25:43,166 --> 00:25:45,210
I remember Cam's, RG3's,

515
00:25:45,293 --> 00:25:46,545
and one thing that I did know is

516
00:25:46,628 --> 00:25:48,630
that a freshman wasn't gonna win
the Heisman,

517
00:25:48,713 --> 00:25:51,508
and there was a huge,
huge stigma around that,

518
00:25:51,591 --> 00:25:53,510
that it was almost taboo.

519
00:25:54,135 --> 00:25:57,973
[presenter] Might this be the year
the final class barrier is broken down

520
00:25:58,056 --> 00:26:01,309
by the voters, a first-ever freshman
to win the Heisman Trophy?

521
00:26:01,393 --> 00:26:03,520
There were three people
that were in Heisman contention.

522
00:26:03,603 --> 00:26:07,857
It was really Collin Klein,
Manti Te'o, and myself.

523
00:26:07,941 --> 00:26:11,653
[female presenter] And to the winner,
your name will forever be associated

524
00:26:11,736 --> 00:26:15,156
with the legacy of being
a Heisman Trophy winner.

525
00:26:15,824 --> 00:26:18,577
[Johnny] I was so unbelievably nervous.

526
00:26:18,660 --> 00:26:20,287
I looked down a lot

527
00:26:20,370 --> 00:26:24,207
because I felt like my suit jacket
was gonna be jumping like this

528
00:26:24,291 --> 00:26:27,544
'cause I felt like my heart
was beating outta my chest.

529
00:26:27,627 --> 00:26:32,507
[female presenter] The 2012 winner
of the Heisman Memorial Trophy is…

530
00:26:32,591 --> 00:26:34,634
[soft music playing]

531
00:26:34,718 --> 00:26:36,261
…Johnny Manziel

532
00:26:36,845 --> 00:26:39,014
[audience cheering, applauding]

533
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:52,902
And when my name was called,

534
00:26:52,986 --> 00:26:56,489
I felt pride, just the most joy
I've ever felt in my life.

535
00:26:58,283 --> 00:27:00,994
[Paul] I was just praying
they called his name, and, um…

536
00:27:01,077 --> 00:27:02,829
just what a great sound.

537
00:27:03,872 --> 00:27:06,291
It was a great sound.
A lot of emotions in there,

538
00:27:06,374 --> 00:27:09,085
and, um, you know,
a long road of raising him.

539
00:27:09,169 --> 00:27:13,131
To Mom, Dad, Meri,
you mean the world to me.

540
00:27:13,214 --> 00:27:15,050
I just wanna thank you
for the encouragement,

541
00:27:15,133 --> 00:27:17,427
the love, and the patience over the years.

542
00:27:18,345 --> 00:27:20,597
[Johnny] It was awesome
to see how emotional my dad was

543
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:22,140
and just how proud of me he was.

544
00:27:22,223 --> 00:27:24,517
It's been a long time
since I've seen him like that,

545
00:27:24,601 --> 00:27:27,395
uh, so the impact that's had on me
has been tremendous.

546
00:27:27,479 --> 00:27:30,106
[all cheering loudly] Whoo-hoo!

547
00:27:30,190 --> 00:27:32,192
[Paul] As you raise your child,
you wanna give him

548
00:27:32,275 --> 00:27:34,444
every opportunity to get
to where he wants to be,

549
00:27:34,527 --> 00:27:35,945
and, um, he achieved that tonight,

550
00:27:36,029 --> 00:27:39,824
and, um, we're not done yet,
but, um, he's definitely on his way.

551
00:27:40,408 --> 00:27:43,453
[Meri] It all changed after the Heisman.

552
00:27:43,536 --> 00:27:47,457
It becomes a little bit larger
than football at that point.

553
00:27:47,540 --> 00:27:50,168
Congratulations, Johnny, what are you
gonna do with your prize money?

554
00:27:50,251 --> 00:27:51,294
Did they give you money?

555
00:27:51,378 --> 00:27:52,337
-I wish.
-Yeah.

556
00:27:53,338 --> 00:27:56,633
And then, after the Heisman,
people started talking about money.

557
00:27:57,467 --> 00:27:59,469
[crowd chanting]

558
00:28:04,891 --> 00:28:06,935
What a year it has been.

559
00:28:07,018 --> 00:28:08,353
[crowd whooing]

560
00:28:08,436 --> 00:28:11,189
Namely, Texas A&M's first year in the SEC.

561
00:28:12,482 --> 00:28:15,485
And not only did Texas A&M compete,
we excelled.

562
00:28:15,568 --> 00:28:17,696
The nation knows him as Johnny Football,

563
00:28:17,779 --> 00:28:21,157
your 2012 Heisman Trophy winner,
Johnny Manziel.

564
00:28:21,241 --> 00:28:23,076
[crowd cheering, applauding]

565
00:28:23,159 --> 00:28:25,745
[all together] Johnny Football, hey, whoo!

566
00:28:26,913 --> 00:28:32,544
I don't know if there's been a more
impactful athlete for a university

567
00:28:32,627 --> 00:28:35,130
than Johnny Football and Texas A&M,

568
00:28:35,213 --> 00:28:38,591
and everybody was along
for the ride and… and benefiting.

569
00:28:38,675 --> 00:28:40,260
And that's just a fact.

570
00:28:41,094 --> 00:28:45,056
Whether it's Kevin Sumlin and…
and his mega-contract he signed,

571
00:28:45,140 --> 00:28:47,600
Kliff Kingsbury and where his career went,

572
00:28:47,684 --> 00:28:50,603
even our business, like,
something that covers Texas A&M.

573
00:28:51,187 --> 00:28:53,064
[woman] It certainly is bringing
more visitors

574
00:28:53,148 --> 00:28:56,985
and… and more Aggies and more SEC visitors
to come in to see our community.

575
00:28:57,068 --> 00:29:00,488
We sold out all of the hotels
in all of Bryan-College Station.

576
00:29:00,572 --> 00:29:02,699
[Kliff] There was nobody
that was looking sideways

577
00:29:02,782 --> 00:29:05,493
once we started winning
and having the run we had.

578
00:29:05,577 --> 00:29:08,830
I mean, everybody knew
that they were gonna profit off this run.

579
00:29:08,913 --> 00:29:10,498
[Presenter] According to one estimate,

580
00:29:10,582 --> 00:29:14,210
Manziel's Heisman
has been worth $37 million

581
00:29:14,294 --> 00:29:16,796
in free publicity for Texas A&M.

582
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,215
If you don't think it's easier
to recruit professors

583
00:29:19,299 --> 00:29:21,342
after they see Johnny Manziel,

584
00:29:21,426 --> 00:29:24,012
then you don't know much
about public relations.

585
00:29:24,095 --> 00:29:27,223
The people that benefited
were the school. Hugely.

586
00:29:27,307 --> 00:29:31,394
The Texas A&M Foundation
raised more than $740 million,

587
00:29:31,478 --> 00:29:35,023
$300 million more
than any other one-year period

588
00:29:35,106 --> 00:29:36,983
in the university's history.

589
00:29:37,066 --> 00:29:39,235
-The donations just skyrocketed.
-[rock music playing]

590
00:29:39,319 --> 00:29:41,613
You know the saying,
"Strike while the iron's hot."

591
00:29:41,696 --> 00:29:43,531
The iron was never hotter.

592
00:29:43,990 --> 00:29:46,451
Because of Johnny's success,

593
00:29:46,534 --> 00:29:51,706
people have a belief
that Texas A&M can compete in the SEC.

594
00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:53,708
So we need to upgrade.

595
00:29:53,792 --> 00:29:56,252
[presenter]
A makeover of Texas-sized proportions.

596
00:29:56,336 --> 00:29:58,171
A&M proposed a renovation plan

597
00:29:58,254 --> 00:30:02,008
that could fit
more than 100,000 people in Kyle Field.

598
00:30:02,091 --> 00:30:04,093
[Johnny] There were two times
throughout the season

599
00:30:04,177 --> 00:30:07,889
where I had to sign
hundreds and hundreds of autographs.

600
00:30:07,972 --> 00:30:10,975
We had 'em all lined out
for all of our donors.

601
00:30:11,059 --> 00:30:13,394
This is where, I guess,
I see a little bit behind the scenes,

602
00:30:13,478 --> 00:30:14,604
kind of what they were doing

603
00:30:14,687 --> 00:30:17,607
through that year
for donations and building a new stadium.

604
00:30:18,274 --> 00:30:20,235
I was tired of not having any money,

605
00:30:20,318 --> 00:30:25,698
and I sure as hell saw "45 million
No 2 A&M Adidas jerseys sold."

606
00:30:25,782 --> 00:30:27,992
It didn't make any sense, and…

607
00:30:28,076 --> 00:30:29,494
[rock music cuts off sharply]

608
00:30:29,577 --> 00:30:31,162
…I had a bone to pick. [sighs]

609
00:30:31,246 --> 00:30:34,999
Football is an industry that makes
billions of dollars every year

610
00:30:35,083 --> 00:30:38,336
at both the pro and collegiate levels.

611
00:30:38,419 --> 00:30:40,964
And while professional players
can count on fat paychecks,

612
00:30:41,047 --> 00:30:43,591
college athletes can't make a dime.

613
00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:48,596
I have a deep hatred against the NCAA.

614
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,892
Athletes argue the organization
continues to profit off student-athletes

615
00:30:52,976 --> 00:30:54,811
without giving them a fair cut.

616
00:30:54,894 --> 00:30:58,273
In 2012, the NCAA was basically,
um, set up to make sure

617
00:30:58,356 --> 00:31:01,025
there was a level playing field
in college football.

618
00:31:01,109 --> 00:31:04,237
[presenter] The NCAA president testified
that any effort to pay players

619
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,740
would destroy a framework that has been
in place for more than a century.

620
00:31:07,824 --> 00:31:10,243
We provide students
with access to education,

621
00:31:10,326 --> 00:31:14,289
and there's not even a salary to debate.
They're not employees. They're students.

622
00:31:14,372 --> 00:31:18,418
You're allowed to have a full scholarship,
you're allowed to get meals,

623
00:31:18,501 --> 00:31:20,920
have your books paid for,
classes, housing,

624
00:31:21,004 --> 00:31:22,213
and that was basically it.

625
00:31:22,297 --> 00:31:24,465
The idea of athletes being paid,

626
00:31:24,549 --> 00:31:27,427
do you think that will ever happen
at the NCAA level?

627
00:31:27,510 --> 00:31:29,804
Not while I'm president of the NCAA.

628
00:31:29,888 --> 00:31:32,307
There was no marketing deals,
there's no advertising deals.

629
00:31:32,390 --> 00:31:37,312
You… You couldn't make money
off your likeness or image, none of that.

630
00:31:38,146 --> 00:31:40,565
He knew everybody
was making a ton of money

631
00:31:40,648 --> 00:31:44,527
out of Johnny Football mania, so,
"Hey! I'm gonna try to get mine."

632
00:31:46,070 --> 00:31:47,196
[Johnny] It all started

633
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,991
at a national championship game
in my freshman year.

634
00:31:50,074 --> 00:31:53,036
Me and Nate flew down to Miami.
I'm sitting there waiting on our bags,

635
00:31:53,119 --> 00:31:54,871
and this guy comes out to me,
and he's like,

636
00:31:54,954 --> 00:31:56,831
"I've got some money
for you if you wanna sign,"

637
00:31:56,915 --> 00:31:59,417
and I just kinda blew the guy off
a little bit, and he's like,

638
00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:01,961
"Yo, I've got $3,000 for you to sign."

639
00:32:02,045 --> 00:32:03,713
And I remember taking my headphones off

640
00:32:03,796 --> 00:32:05,840
and turning around
looking at this guy like…

641
00:32:05,924 --> 00:32:07,425
[inhales] "Where are we going?"

642
00:32:07,508 --> 00:32:10,929
They've got liquor.
They've got everything to make it fun.

643
00:32:11,012 --> 00:32:14,223
As we're kinda hours into this whole deal,
one of the guys is like,

644
00:32:14,307 --> 00:32:17,018
"This guy's fucking you over,"
and slid me a number.

645
00:32:17,101 --> 00:32:20,021
He's like, "Trust me, like,
the king of all autographs is downstairs

646
00:32:20,104 --> 00:32:22,607
and you guys are getting hosed
totally on the count, the money."

647
00:32:22,690 --> 00:32:24,859
"It's all… It's all screwed.
You gotta go downstairs."

648
00:32:24,943 --> 00:32:27,904
There was like
a black Rolls-Royce Dawn out front.

649
00:32:27,987 --> 00:32:30,531
He's like, "Hey, hold up,"
and I look up on the thing,

650
00:32:30,615 --> 00:32:32,575
and it was Alex Rodriguez calling.

651
00:32:32,659 --> 00:32:34,285
He's like, "Tell this dude I'm good,"

652
00:32:34,369 --> 00:32:36,788
and I remember him just like,
"100%, he's good."

653
00:32:37,455 --> 00:32:39,707
I'm like, "Can't argue with that."

654
00:32:40,541 --> 00:32:42,043
[Johnny] "Here's what we're gonna do.

655
00:32:42,126 --> 00:32:43,795
I'm gonna get a room
at the Fontainebleau."

656
00:32:43,878 --> 00:32:45,797
"I'm gonna set everything up in there."

657
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,759
"When you get done, shoot me a picture,
and I'll give you the code to the safe."

658
00:32:50,802 --> 00:32:51,678
"Thirty grand."

659
00:32:52,428 --> 00:32:55,515
And once that happened for the first time,
it was, like, game on.

660
00:32:55,598 --> 00:32:57,767
Constructing the business
was really just logic.

661
00:32:57,850 --> 00:32:59,477
And I hate to even call it a business

662
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,397
because it wasn't really a business.
It was just, um…

663
00:33:03,731 --> 00:33:04,941
Well, it was a business.

664
00:33:05,441 --> 00:33:06,693
[rap music playing]

665
00:33:06,776 --> 00:33:12,115
We were going back once in February,
once in March, once in April, once in May.

666
00:33:12,198 --> 00:33:13,408
Business is booming.

667
00:33:15,284 --> 00:33:19,372
For a 19-year-old kid to have about
100 grand in cash stuffed under your bed,

668
00:33:19,956 --> 00:33:21,499
it was awesome.

669
00:33:21,582 --> 00:33:24,127
You have to also understand,
we weren't just signing autographs.

670
00:33:24,210 --> 00:33:26,504
[Johnny] Cabo. California.

671
00:33:26,587 --> 00:33:28,506
Not looking good for the Padres.

672
00:33:28,548 --> 00:33:30,550
[Nate] All over the place.
Throwing a dart on a map.

673
00:33:30,633 --> 00:33:32,593
Finish our drinks,
go straight to the airport.

674
00:33:32,677 --> 00:33:36,431
Wake up and we're like,
"What are we doing in Washington, DC?"

675
00:33:36,514 --> 00:33:40,268
[commentator] How does a college kid get
courtside seats? They are expensive seats.

676
00:33:41,561 --> 00:33:44,564
[Nate] We went to LIV Nightclub,
which was big at the time.

677
00:33:45,106 --> 00:33:49,068
The next thing I know, Rick Ross
is just passing us these purple bottles.

678
00:33:49,736 --> 00:33:51,237
[rap music continues]

679
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,656
[announcer] Please welcome Johnny Manziel!

680
00:33:53,740 --> 00:33:57,243
-[crowd cheering]
-[woman] He's one of your boys, clearly.

681
00:33:57,326 --> 00:33:58,828
Johnny's like one of the best guys,

682
00:33:58,911 --> 00:34:01,497
and I feel like our friendship
will last for… for a very long time.

683
00:34:01,581 --> 00:34:04,751
[Nate] We went to the Super Bowl,
first row, 50-yard line.

684
00:34:04,834 --> 00:34:06,210
We went to Maxim Magazine party

685
00:34:06,294 --> 00:34:08,796
and had drinks with Jamie Foxx,
with Andy Roddick.

686
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,924
Met up with Wale, Justin Timberlake,
and Jessica Biel that night.

687
00:34:12,008 --> 00:34:13,968
None of them could believe he was there.

688
00:34:14,052 --> 00:34:16,304
[upbeat music playing]

689
00:34:17,263 --> 00:34:20,349
I'm going in my head
'cause I'm 20 years old,

690
00:34:20,892 --> 00:34:22,185
I'm so badass.

691
00:34:23,311 --> 00:34:24,645
And I remember… [laughs]

692
00:34:24,729 --> 00:34:27,648
…I got this silk Versace shirt,

693
00:34:28,733 --> 00:34:30,443
Gucci sunglasses.

694
00:34:30,526 --> 00:34:31,861
And I still, to this day,

695
00:34:31,944 --> 00:34:34,864
have the first Gucci wallet
that I ever, ever bought.

696
00:34:34,947 --> 00:34:36,282
There's still the price tag there.

697
00:34:36,365 --> 00:34:39,243
So I thought this was, like,
the coolest thing in the world.

698
00:34:40,078 --> 00:34:42,622
We make this list of
what do we wanna accomplish in our life,

699
00:34:42,705 --> 00:34:43,915
you know, what do we wanna do?

700
00:34:43,998 --> 00:34:46,793
[Nate] He's like, "I don't know.
You write yours, and I'll write mine."

701
00:34:46,876 --> 00:34:47,752
[Johnny] You know,

702
00:34:47,835 --> 00:34:49,796
"Make a million dollars,
go see this, go see that."

703
00:34:49,879 --> 00:34:53,341
All those stupid things you do as a kid,
you know, we did together.

704
00:34:54,592 --> 00:34:57,929
[Nate] He's in my ear the whole time
telling me we're the baddest thing

705
00:34:58,012 --> 00:34:59,514
that ever existed, and "Let's roll."

706
00:34:59,597 --> 00:35:01,724
"This is what life is like forever."

707
00:35:02,308 --> 00:35:04,811
And I thought that it was at the time.

708
00:35:05,770 --> 00:35:08,272
[Johnny] This train was going
full speed ahead…

709
00:35:08,356 --> 00:35:13,778
[inhales] …and it didn't really stop
until the NCAA got involved.

710
00:35:13,861 --> 00:35:15,404
Texas A&M star quarterback,

711
00:35:15,488 --> 00:35:17,782
Johnny Manziel,
has come under scrutiny this week.

712
00:35:17,865 --> 00:35:20,618
Accused of signing
sports memorabilia for money.

713
00:35:20,701 --> 00:35:26,541
I go to my dad, and I was like,
"Oh shit," like, "I… I really fucked up."

714
00:35:26,624 --> 00:35:30,920
Johnny calls me, he says, "Hey,
I'm being investigated. What do I do?"

715
00:35:31,003 --> 00:35:33,798
I said, "Don't say a word.
Don't do nothing."

716
00:35:33,881 --> 00:35:35,049
Here we go again.

717
00:35:35,133 --> 00:35:38,052
There may be two other questionable
autograph-signing sessions.

718
00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:41,472
There's growing concern
Johnny Manziel may not even be in uniform…

719
00:35:41,556 --> 00:35:44,016
The NCAA had an entire division

720
00:35:44,100 --> 00:35:47,562
that was dedicated
to finding athletes breaking the rules.

721
00:35:47,645 --> 00:35:49,105
That is no joke.

722
00:35:49,188 --> 00:35:52,859
Johnny Football could lose
part of his eligibility, if not all.

723
00:35:52,942 --> 00:35:54,861
Is this the end for Manziel?

724
00:35:54,944 --> 00:35:58,447
But we had already formed
an immaculate defense.

725
00:35:59,115 --> 00:36:00,575
[suspenseful music playing]

726
00:36:00,658 --> 00:36:05,246
We talked,
and I devised a plan that was brilliant.

727
00:36:06,038 --> 00:36:08,457
I started with, "How does he get caught?"

728
00:36:09,167 --> 00:36:15,047
He gets caught because somebody takes
a picture during a paid autograph session.

729
00:36:15,131 --> 00:36:17,842
You can sign autographs all you want.

730
00:36:17,925 --> 00:36:20,803
The part you have to conceal
is money being paid.

731
00:36:20,887 --> 00:36:23,764
You have all this cash,
can't go buy a flight,

732
00:36:23,848 --> 00:36:26,100
so I remember calling
my grandpa one day and asking him,

733
00:36:26,184 --> 00:36:29,103
"Hey, is there any way
that I can, you know, give you some cash,

734
00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:30,980
and then you're able to give me a check,

735
00:36:31,063 --> 00:36:33,774
so I'm able to put some money
into the bank account?"

736
00:36:35,318 --> 00:36:37,236
And my grandpa's a fucking G.

737
00:36:39,113 --> 00:36:42,575
You know, Nate was very okay
with being the fall guy.

738
00:36:42,658 --> 00:36:44,160
And with that,

739
00:36:44,243 --> 00:36:46,537
me and Nate split everything 80-20.

740
00:36:46,621 --> 00:36:47,747
[Nate] The next step is,

741
00:36:47,830 --> 00:36:52,043
how are you gonna explain
why you are wearing Rolexes

742
00:36:52,126 --> 00:36:55,880
and driving new cars
and flying in private jets?

743
00:36:55,963 --> 00:36:58,090
As a freshman, you weren't allowed
to talk to the media,

744
00:36:58,174 --> 00:37:00,176
but they were allowed to talk to me.

745
00:37:00,259 --> 00:37:03,512
And so the biggest spin
that still exists today,

746
00:37:03,596 --> 00:37:07,308
I invented a narrative
that his family was vastly wealthy.

747
00:37:07,391 --> 00:37:08,517
[Johnny] I've been blessed

748
00:37:08,601 --> 00:37:10,686
with family members
that have had these opportunities,

749
00:37:10,770 --> 00:37:12,647
and I've always been able to do this.

750
00:37:12,730 --> 00:37:14,273
We sold a little bit of a dream

751
00:37:14,357 --> 00:37:17,360
that my family had more money,
um, than they actually did.

752
00:37:17,443 --> 00:37:19,654
What's interesting is here's a kid
who doesn't need money.

753
00:37:19,737 --> 00:37:20,947
He comes from oil money.

754
00:37:21,030 --> 00:37:23,366
A kid who came from oil money.

755
00:37:23,449 --> 00:37:24,825
We're not doing anything criminal.

756
00:37:24,909 --> 00:37:28,704
We're just not abiding by the NCAA bylaws
on which you're not allowed to make money.

757
00:37:28,788 --> 00:37:31,791
Well, Johnny Football suspended
for half a game.

758
00:37:31,874 --> 00:37:35,419
The NCAA says there is no evidence
that Manziel took money,

759
00:37:35,503 --> 00:37:39,674
but he still violated the rules
by signing certain photographs.

760
00:37:39,757 --> 00:37:42,093
They, um, penalized him half a game

761
00:37:42,677 --> 00:37:45,554
for failure to prevent
the commercialization of his name.

762
00:37:48,015 --> 00:37:50,935
And we went right back
to signing autographs.

763
00:37:52,979 --> 00:37:56,816
The last time the reigning Heisman Trophy
winner returned to play in the SEC

764
00:37:56,899 --> 00:37:59,110
was Tim Tebow back in 2007.

765
00:37:59,193 --> 00:38:00,403
Now, it's this man's turn.

766
00:38:00,486 --> 00:38:03,656
[presenter] The one person that everybody
had their eyes on earlier this morning

767
00:38:03,739 --> 00:38:05,574
was Johnny Football.

768
00:38:05,741 --> 00:38:09,203
Once he won the Heisman,

769
00:38:10,997 --> 00:38:13,165
I saw a different side of him.

770
00:38:13,249 --> 00:38:18,921
It was like there was nothing stopping him
from doing what he wanted to do.

771
00:38:19,005 --> 00:38:21,424
[Johnny] What was going on with the NCAA,

772
00:38:21,507 --> 00:38:24,719
for years and years and years,
was just wrong,

773
00:38:25,344 --> 00:38:27,680
and I went into that suspension pissed,

774
00:38:27,763 --> 00:38:31,684
but also with the biggest smirk
on my face ever.

775
00:38:32,601 --> 00:38:34,895
And then, from then on out,
everything I really did

776
00:38:34,979 --> 00:38:37,773
just got absolutely nitpicked
and torn apart.

777
00:38:37,857 --> 00:38:39,775
People saying,
"He's traveling around the world,

778
00:38:39,859 --> 00:38:42,236
he's done Jay Leno,
he hasn't been at practice very much."

779
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:44,905
Fuck your practice.
I'm the best player in the country.

780
00:38:44,989 --> 00:38:47,074
[presenter] Manziel caught a lot of heat
from the media

781
00:38:47,158 --> 00:38:49,201
after leaving the Manning Passing Academy.

782
00:38:49,285 --> 00:38:51,704
Some reports say Manziel was hungover
and missed camp.

783
00:38:51,787 --> 00:38:53,414
[journalist] What happened on the weekend?

784
00:38:53,497 --> 00:38:55,541
Um, nothing…
nothing more than I overslept.

785
00:38:55,624 --> 00:38:57,835
I was a shark in a fish tank,

786
00:38:57,918 --> 00:39:00,212
and I didn't really feel
like I had any way to move.

787
00:39:00,296 --> 00:39:02,548
[presenter] Early Sunday morning,
Manziel posted a quote,

788
00:39:08,179 --> 00:39:12,641
[woman] Manziel was reportedly quickly
and harshly removed from a frat party.

789
00:39:12,725 --> 00:39:14,268
[Johnny] I like to have fun in my life.

790
00:39:14,352 --> 00:39:18,105
I like to live my life to the fullest,
and if that upsets some people, I'm sorry.

791
00:39:18,189 --> 00:39:21,567
What Johnny needed
was to be held accountable.

792
00:39:21,650 --> 00:39:24,862
When you turn your son over
to a coach and to a program,

793
00:39:24,945 --> 00:39:28,157
they're supposed to not only teach him
how to play football,

794
00:39:28,240 --> 00:39:31,911
they're responsible to turn him
into a good young man.

795
00:39:31,994 --> 00:39:33,662
[Kliff] I always felt
you had to be careful

796
00:39:33,746 --> 00:39:36,374
on trying to tell Johnny
how to live his life.

797
00:39:36,457 --> 00:39:38,542
Wasn't ideal I think, for us as coaches,

798
00:39:38,626 --> 00:39:41,921
but it was kinda like, that's
the dark side he needed to play good,

799
00:39:42,004 --> 00:39:44,465
and as long as
he wasn't getting in trouble, um,

800
00:39:45,049 --> 00:39:46,008
do your deal.

801
00:39:46,717 --> 00:39:49,512
[Kevin] Um, nobody's really ever been
in this situation.

802
00:39:49,595 --> 00:39:54,266
We've been very clear with Johnny
and his family about the dos and don'ts,

803
00:39:54,350 --> 00:39:57,228
but, um, there's not a perfect person
in this room.

804
00:39:57,311 --> 00:39:58,521
[Paul] For the school,

805
00:39:58,604 --> 00:40:00,481
how do you take him out
and waste a season?

806
00:40:00,564 --> 00:40:03,150
How do you do that,
financially or anything else?

807
00:40:04,276 --> 00:40:05,444
Y… You don't.

808
00:40:05,528 --> 00:40:07,113
[crowd cheering]

809
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:09,365
[presenter] So the suspension

810
00:40:09,448 --> 00:40:13,452
that many around college football
felt was just a joke is now history,

811
00:40:13,536 --> 00:40:16,122
and Johnny Manziel
is a college football player again.

812
00:40:16,205 --> 00:40:19,875
[crowd cheering] Johnny! Johnny!
Johnny! Johnny!

813
00:40:19,959 --> 00:40:22,211
[commentator]
In for his first snap of 2013.

814
00:40:22,795 --> 00:40:24,547
And Manziel takes off.

815
00:40:24,630 --> 00:40:26,465
There goes Johnny Football!

816
00:40:27,550 --> 00:40:30,177
That's why they love him
here in College Station.

817
00:40:30,261 --> 00:40:32,471
Here's his other standard move
after a touchdown.

818
00:40:33,055 --> 00:40:35,099
All this money thing
that he started doing,

819
00:40:35,182 --> 00:40:39,228
I didn't like it,
but people begged for that.

820
00:40:39,311 --> 00:40:41,021
[woman shouting] Show me the money, baby!

821
00:40:41,105 --> 00:40:42,356
[presenter] This season started

822
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,608
with enormous expectations
for Johnny Manziel.

823
00:40:44,692 --> 00:40:48,154
Perhaps his second Heisman Trophy,
SEC National Championship.

824
00:40:48,737 --> 00:40:51,073
[commentator]
Third of the half for Johnny Football.

825
00:40:51,574 --> 00:40:54,034
Following the touchdown,
unsportsmanlike conduct,

826
00:40:54,118 --> 00:40:57,121
No 2 of the offense, 15-yard penalty…

827
00:40:57,204 --> 00:41:00,040
There were people trying
to put discipline on me.

828
00:41:00,124 --> 00:41:02,835
[Kevin] That's not okay,
and obviously, I addressed that

829
00:41:02,918 --> 00:41:04,795
on the sideline right after the play.

830
00:41:04,879 --> 00:41:06,130
[Johnny] But at the same time,

831
00:41:06,213 --> 00:41:08,674
nobody knew how to handle
everything that was going on.

832
00:41:08,757 --> 00:41:12,344
There is a code of conduct
for the reigning Heisman winner,

833
00:41:12,428 --> 00:41:14,305
and he violated it once again.

834
00:41:14,388 --> 00:41:17,141
He's hanging out with Drake and LeBron,
and he's coming home…

835
00:41:17,224 --> 00:41:19,435
You think he cared
what came out of me and Paul's mouth?

836
00:41:19,518 --> 00:41:22,313
At that point, you were like…
Didn't matter.

837
00:41:22,396 --> 00:41:25,024
[man] This guy's been partying since
he stepped into College Station,

838
00:41:25,107 --> 00:41:26,650
so I think he's just being himself.

839
00:41:26,734 --> 00:41:31,030
[woman] Can college football
take three more years of Johnny Football?

840
00:41:31,113 --> 00:41:34,033
[commentator] Say whatever you want
about Johnny Manziel,

841
00:41:34,116 --> 00:41:37,703
if you can watch one player
in college football, you wanna watch him.

842
00:41:37,786 --> 00:41:40,831
[Johnny] I'm getting approached by agents
knowing if I come back out this year,

843
00:41:40,915 --> 00:41:43,501
and I recreate even a smidgen
of that success,

844
00:41:43,584 --> 00:41:44,960
I'm gonna have millions of dollars

845
00:41:45,044 --> 00:41:46,962
and be the first quarterback
taken in the draft.

846
00:41:47,046 --> 00:41:49,507
[presenter] Biggest question involving
the former Heisman winner

847
00:41:49,590 --> 00:41:51,550
is whether he should head to the pros

848
00:41:51,634 --> 00:41:54,136
while his draft stock
is looking so bright.

849
00:41:55,846 --> 00:41:57,223
[Johnny] I bitched out on workouts

850
00:41:57,306 --> 00:42:00,142
and felt like I didn't have to do
what everybody else was doing,

851
00:42:00,226 --> 00:42:03,771
and that whole idea and mantra
I had in my head from Kerrville of,

852
00:42:03,854 --> 00:42:07,233
"You're gonna dress the same way,
do the same thing as the guy next to you,"

853
00:42:07,316 --> 00:42:10,444
was completely eliminated
in six months' time.

854
00:42:11,570 --> 00:42:14,114
[commentator] Got a feeling
Johnny Manziel's a little frustrated.

855
00:42:14,198 --> 00:42:18,702
[Paul] I think all of the expectation,
the partying, the NCAA stuff,

856
00:42:18,786 --> 00:42:20,579
all the A&M, all the pressure,

857
00:42:20,663 --> 00:42:21,830
I think it changed him.

858
00:42:21,914 --> 00:42:23,290
[commentator] There's a reaction

859
00:42:23,374 --> 00:42:25,543
on the sidelines
from A&M's leader, Johnny Manziel.

860
00:42:25,626 --> 00:42:27,836
[Kevin] The thing that makes him
who he is,

861
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,548
is his passion and emotion.

862
00:42:32,174 --> 00:42:35,177
It's our challenge
to try to keep that energy positive.

863
00:42:35,261 --> 00:42:37,471
[presenter]
Johnny Manziel just can't help himself.

864
00:42:37,555 --> 00:42:41,475
You draw the line in the sand,
he steps over that line.

865
00:42:41,559 --> 00:42:44,770
[man] Let's remember this.
This problem did not happen last year.

866
00:42:44,853 --> 00:42:46,480
[shouting] Turn the fuck up!

867
00:42:46,564 --> 00:42:47,523
Last week was one

868
00:42:47,606 --> 00:42:50,192
of his most disappointing games
since he's been at Texas A&M.

869
00:42:53,404 --> 00:42:56,282
[presenter] And the ovation
for Johnny Manziel

870
00:42:57,074 --> 00:43:01,662
along with these seniors
as they close the door on Kyle Field.

871
00:43:01,745 --> 00:43:05,457
[Johnny] There's no reason the team we had
should be eight and four that year.

872
00:43:05,541 --> 00:43:07,418
[explosions]

873
00:43:07,501 --> 00:43:08,794
We were better than that.

874
00:43:11,046 --> 00:43:12,047
But it didn't matter

875
00:43:12,131 --> 00:43:15,301
'cause you're looking at mock drafts
and you're looking forward and…

876
00:43:16,302 --> 00:43:19,888
whether people like to say it or not,
I was bigger than College Station.

877
00:43:19,972 --> 00:43:21,181
[warning signal beeping]

878
00:43:21,265 --> 00:43:24,810
So it was just kinda time to move on
and go do the next thing.

879
00:43:24,893 --> 00:43:28,188
[explosion]

880
00:43:29,106 --> 00:43:31,108
Johnny Manziel made it official today,
no surprise,

881
00:43:31,191 --> 00:43:34,153
announcing he's gonna leave college
to enter the NFL draft.

882
00:43:34,236 --> 00:43:37,448
[presenter] The big question,
"Where will Manziel go in the draft?"

883
00:43:38,365 --> 00:43:43,746
I think I was considered
a very risky person, um, for him

884
00:43:43,829 --> 00:43:45,122
'cause I knew everything.

885
00:43:47,041 --> 00:43:49,960
And so I think that the counsel
he was receiving at the time

886
00:43:50,044 --> 00:43:52,379
was probably sound advice, which is like,

887
00:43:52,463 --> 00:43:56,925
"Hey, you're no longer doing
this half-ass, 20-year-old management."

888
00:43:58,302 --> 00:43:59,970
I… I just knew I was super loyal,

889
00:44:00,054 --> 00:44:04,224
and that I contributed everything,
mind, body, soul, spirit, to help him,

890
00:44:04,308 --> 00:44:08,020
erm, and an image needed to change
from being best friend

891
00:44:08,103 --> 00:44:10,272
to it needed to be a big firm.

892
00:44:11,565 --> 00:44:12,983
[Johnny] We'd originally told him

893
00:44:13,067 --> 00:44:15,319
that there wasn't gonna be a guy
with me in the day-to-day,

894
00:44:15,402 --> 00:44:18,238
and when we told him
that wasn't gonna happen,

895
00:44:18,322 --> 00:44:21,575
I kinda think, like, he felt his role
and the whole role was diminished,

896
00:44:21,659 --> 00:44:24,119
and kinda pulled away.

897
00:44:25,537 --> 00:44:29,208
[inhales] And I don't think
we've spoken again since then.

898
00:44:31,502 --> 00:44:32,419
You know, for me,

899
00:44:32,503 --> 00:44:35,297
this is what we'd talked about
flying on those planes to South Beach.

900
00:44:35,381 --> 00:44:39,468
You know, this is what we talked about
at the Fontainebleau sitting by the pool.

901
00:44:40,177 --> 00:44:43,681
So, you know, I felt terrible about it,
but at the same time,

902
00:44:43,764 --> 00:44:47,476
because of what my track record was,
they weren't gonna allow me to do that.

903
00:44:48,185 --> 00:44:51,021
And Nate being away
was probably a safeguard for a while.

904
00:44:52,439 --> 00:44:54,400
[Nate] I didn't care
about the business side of it.

905
00:44:54,483 --> 00:44:55,609
Truly, I didn't.

906
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,613
The only thing I was hurting about
was that I loved Johnny.

907
00:44:59,697 --> 00:45:01,281
[rap music playing]

908
00:45:01,365 --> 00:45:02,491
He was my best friend.

909
00:45:04,076 --> 00:45:08,247
I was, um… unbelievably loyal to my guys.

910
00:45:10,290 --> 00:45:12,167
U… Until you really can't be anymore.

911
00:45:15,796 --> 00:45:17,339
Yeah, I'm Erik Burkhardt.

912
00:45:17,423 --> 00:45:21,635
Um, I was Johnny's sports agent
for way too many years.

913
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:23,387
So it's such a big deal,

914
00:45:23,470 --> 00:45:26,390
especially for a quarterback,
if they can go in the first round,

915
00:45:26,473 --> 00:45:29,935
because if he goes top five,
we're talking 20 to 25 million.

916
00:45:30,018 --> 00:45:31,562
And every pick in the first round,

917
00:45:31,645 --> 00:45:33,939
the money starts falloff
about a million dollars.

918
00:45:34,022 --> 00:45:37,359
So many people
had been making millions of dollars

919
00:45:38,068 --> 00:45:42,322
on the back of Johnny and his teammates,
largely after that Heisman year.

920
00:45:42,406 --> 00:45:44,783
He earned this contract,
which was still gonna be peanuts

921
00:45:44,867 --> 00:45:48,454
compared to what so many other people
had made on his back the whole time.

922
00:45:48,537 --> 00:45:49,830
[suspenseful tone playing]

923
00:45:49,913 --> 00:45:52,458
I was real. I didn't come in
saying, "You're gonna go top ten."

924
00:45:52,541 --> 00:45:54,877
I came and I go,
"You're not going in the first round."

925
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,337
He does not belong in the top 25.

926
00:45:57,421 --> 00:46:00,507
He may get a bump to second round.
He's not getting in the first round.

927
00:46:00,591 --> 00:46:04,094
The big questions on Johnny were gonna be,
"Do you really wanna be a quarterback,

928
00:46:04,178 --> 00:46:07,014
or do you wanna be famous?"
'Cause he was super famous already.

929
00:46:07,097 --> 00:46:09,099
There's things Johnny's gotta answer
moving forward

930
00:46:09,183 --> 00:46:11,101
to be a quarterback and be a leader.

931
00:46:11,185 --> 00:46:12,060
We can leave no doubt.

932
00:46:12,144 --> 00:46:14,605
For somebody to take
your fucked-up ass in the first round,

933
00:46:14,688 --> 00:46:16,815
here's what this strategy
needs to look like.

934
00:46:16,899 --> 00:46:18,692
[Johnny] I'm going straight to San Diego

935
00:46:18,776 --> 00:46:20,778
and I'm getting
right into this pre-draft training.

936
00:46:20,861 --> 00:46:21,987
Come right back.

937
00:46:22,070 --> 00:46:23,864
[Erik] So, number one: We're doing no PR.

938
00:46:23,947 --> 00:46:28,035
The only thing coming outta your socials
is you sweating and working your ass off.

939
00:46:28,118 --> 00:46:31,580
You need to gain some weight,
learn the game, no drinking,

940
00:46:31,663 --> 00:46:34,333
and when you show up
at the NFL Combine in two months,

941
00:46:34,416 --> 00:46:36,376
now they're really
gonna start considering you.

942
00:46:36,460 --> 00:46:40,297
You know, 6:30, 7:00 in the morning
until seven, eight o'clock at night,

943
00:46:40,380 --> 00:46:42,800
and you just do it on repeat
over and over and over again.

944
00:46:43,383 --> 00:46:44,426
[Erik] We're gonna go crazy

945
00:46:44,510 --> 00:46:46,762
and do a record-setting
Nike deal through LeBron's team,

946
00:46:46,845 --> 00:46:48,931
but we're gonna do those in silence.

947
00:46:49,014 --> 00:46:51,725
I was drug testing him every other week

948
00:46:51,809 --> 00:46:54,436
'cause I know that's gonna come up,
and I wanna be able to go,

949
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,647
"Here's 25 drug tests.
I've been testing him."

950
00:46:56,730 --> 00:46:59,233
"'Cause when I signed him,
I didn't know what I was dealing with,

951
00:46:59,316 --> 00:47:00,859
but I wanted you to have peace of mind."

952
00:47:00,943 --> 00:47:04,905
You need to own who you were
and what you've done.

953
00:47:04,988 --> 00:47:06,782
I was like, "We're gonna embrace
who you were

954
00:47:06,865 --> 00:47:10,369
and say, 'Okay, but now it's time
to go be a pro, and I'm gonna grow up.'"

955
00:47:10,452 --> 00:47:13,413
And that was my expectation
that he actually would.

956
00:47:14,414 --> 00:47:18,502
I was really, really good until the week
before the combine in Indy,

957
00:47:18,585 --> 00:47:20,337
and I finally just broke.

958
00:47:20,420 --> 00:47:22,130
He calls me, and he's like,

959
00:47:22,214 --> 00:47:24,383
"EB, I fucked up."

960
00:47:24,466 --> 00:47:25,884
[suspenseful sharp tone]

961
00:47:25,968 --> 00:47:27,845
[tsks] Like, "How bad?"

962
00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:30,097
I didn't remember much of the night.

963
00:47:30,180 --> 00:47:32,599
I woke up in a hotel room,
and didn't know how I got there.

964
00:47:32,683 --> 00:47:34,852
"Dude, I went to a party
last night in the Hills."

965
00:47:34,935 --> 00:47:39,106
He's like, "Man, everyone was there.
Man, all the rappers, all the actresses."

966
00:47:39,189 --> 00:47:42,234
I mean, I didn't know, going into Indy,
if I was really gonna be able

967
00:47:42,317 --> 00:47:43,360
to pass a drug test.

968
00:47:43,443 --> 00:47:44,945
He's clean the whole time before that.

969
00:47:45,028 --> 00:47:47,906
The only thing I've ever been told was,
"Fail a drug test at the combine,

970
00:47:47,990 --> 00:47:50,367
and you're gonna go from first-round pick
to maybe undrafted."

971
00:47:50,450 --> 00:47:52,786
They're gonna drug test you day two here.

972
00:47:52,870 --> 00:47:55,706
He's like,
"EB, I've been watching the NFL combine."

973
00:47:55,789 --> 00:47:57,791
"I'm coming to the combine."

974
00:47:57,875 --> 00:48:01,628
I say, "No, you're not." There…
We're not risking this, so we compromise.

975
00:48:01,712 --> 00:48:04,214
I call Paul and Michelle. I'm like, "Okay,

976
00:48:04,298 --> 00:48:09,136
you are checking yourself in the hospital,
Paul, with, like, fucking heavy heart,

977
00:48:09,219 --> 00:48:12,681
so that Johnny can divert
and come to the combine for 12 hours,

978
00:48:12,764 --> 00:48:14,224
so that it doesn't look weird,

979
00:48:14,308 --> 00:48:16,810
and put him on a plane down to see Dad
who's in the hospital."

980
00:48:16,894 --> 00:48:19,313
"I'm so sorry, but we'll reschedule
these interviews."

981
00:48:19,396 --> 00:48:22,941
That was my strategy, and Paul's like,
"Okay, Michelle, you're going,"

982
00:48:23,025 --> 00:48:26,111
and, like, she's crying,
"I knew he would do this."

983
00:48:26,194 --> 00:48:27,654
I'm like, "Fuck."

984
00:48:27,738 --> 00:48:30,032
He's like, "I don't even get there
till tomorrow, bro."

985
00:48:30,115 --> 00:48:34,661
"I'm gonna chug a gallon of fucking water.
"I'll piss this shit out. Trust me."

986
00:48:34,745 --> 00:48:37,623
He goes, "I… I've been passing these tests
at A&M for a while,"

987
00:48:37,706 --> 00:48:39,374
which I come to find out on my own

988
00:48:39,458 --> 00:48:41,919
it was their, like,
fourth-string backup quarterback

989
00:48:42,002 --> 00:48:44,338
-that was pissing for him at A&M.
-[smirks]

990
00:48:44,421 --> 00:48:46,214
-So how's the day been?
-It's been really good.

991
00:48:46,298 --> 00:48:50,052
A little early morning, but we're kinda
in the mood now, in the swing of things.

992
00:48:50,135 --> 00:48:53,138
I get, like, three gallons of water,
a bunch of Pedialyte,

993
00:48:53,221 --> 00:48:55,098
and four drug tests.

994
00:48:55,182 --> 00:48:58,185
There's, like, six hotels at the combine.
So every team's, like, staying

995
00:48:58,268 --> 00:48:59,561
at these same hotels.

996
00:48:59,645 --> 00:49:01,897
We get on the elevator, and up… Comes on.

997
00:49:01,980 --> 00:49:04,816
Two general managers and a college
scouting director get on the elevator.

998
00:49:04,900 --> 00:49:07,069
I'm holding the drug tests,
like, trying to hide them.

999
00:49:07,653 --> 00:49:09,029
We go to my room.

1000
00:49:09,112 --> 00:49:12,157
We're, like, holding his piss up
in the bathroom of my hotel room,

1001
00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:14,451
and it's, like… it's a little ambiguous.

1002
00:49:15,202 --> 00:49:17,120
Johnny's just crushing liquids.

1003
00:49:17,204 --> 00:49:19,873
We take our second one.
It's a little lighter.

1004
00:49:19,957 --> 00:49:22,250
So he's like,
"Ha ha ha! We got this shit."

1005
00:49:22,334 --> 00:49:23,919
I was like, "Keep drinking."

1006
00:49:24,002 --> 00:49:25,253
What was that process like?

1007
00:49:25,337 --> 00:49:28,840
It was really cool to see… to see a bunch
of these coaches I've seen on TV and…

1008
00:49:28,924 --> 00:49:31,176
By the way, he of course
crushed his interviews.

1009
00:49:31,259 --> 00:49:34,680
In fact, rave reviews out of the combine
on how great he did.

1010
00:49:34,763 --> 00:49:38,976
And that was a very,
very, um, scary thing,

1011
00:49:39,059 --> 00:49:42,771
one that I think
snapped me out of it for a little bit,

1012
00:49:42,854 --> 00:49:46,316
and then once
I got through that unscathed, um…

1013
00:49:49,403 --> 00:49:52,155
you know, kinda let loose
a little bit more.

1014
00:49:53,031 --> 00:49:55,701
[presenter] It was a pro day
done the Johnny Manziel way.

1015
00:49:55,784 --> 00:49:58,578
[Erik] The next step is pro day
where he's gonna do the on-the-field.

1016
00:49:58,662 --> 00:50:01,748
I go to multiple pro days every year,
there will never be another like this.

1017
00:50:01,832 --> 00:50:03,500
[presenter] A huge crowd
at College Station.

1018
00:50:03,583 --> 00:50:05,711
George and Barbara Bush even showing up.

1019
00:50:05,794 --> 00:50:08,463
Manziel's performance
receiving universal praise.

1020
00:50:08,547 --> 00:50:11,717
Our strategy's working.
The buzz is like, "He could go."

1021
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:14,219
[woman] Most experts agree
he's gonna be a top-ten pick.

1022
00:50:14,302 --> 00:50:15,637
[man] He'll be a top-ten pick.

1023
00:50:15,721 --> 00:50:19,808
At that point, our strategy was just
throw his ass in a cave, lock him up.

1024
00:50:19,891 --> 00:50:24,271
After I got through my pro day, I felt
like a majority of the work had been done.

1025
00:50:24,354 --> 00:50:26,815
Will the Houston Texans
pick Johnny Manziel first?

1026
00:50:26,898 --> 00:50:28,567
Houston, number-one pick.

1027
00:50:28,650 --> 00:50:30,277
The buzz is building in the city.

1028
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:31,611
[presenter] All around Houston,

1029
00:50:31,695 --> 00:50:34,656
billboards are up
to bring Johnny Football back to Texas.

1030
00:50:34,740 --> 00:50:37,909
He got involved
with a big charity foundation event.

1031
00:50:37,993 --> 00:50:39,953
The owner was gonna be there
with his wife.

1032
00:50:40,037 --> 00:50:43,290
Johnny ends up, like, donating
his own money to the cause.

1033
00:50:43,373 --> 00:50:44,708
It goes phenomenal.

1034
00:50:44,791 --> 00:50:47,252
The next day, I get a call.

1035
00:50:47,836 --> 00:50:50,630
"He was golfing today
at River Oaks Country Club,"

1036
00:50:50,714 --> 00:50:55,844
and it got back to the owner's family,
basically, that Johnny, by hole five,

1037
00:50:55,927 --> 00:50:59,097
had taken his shirt off,
"looked intoxicated,"

1038
00:50:59,181 --> 00:51:02,684
and broke multiple clubs over his knee
and threw 'em in the pond.

1039
00:51:02,768 --> 00:51:04,102
There goes Houston.

1040
00:51:05,103 --> 00:51:08,273
It's Weekend at Bernie's. It's just like,
how can we get him to the finish line?

1041
00:51:08,356 --> 00:51:10,776
The wheels are coming off.
I'm talking to him every day.

1042
00:51:10,859 --> 00:51:13,695
"Stay accountable. You've worked
your whole life. We got one month to go."

1043
00:51:13,779 --> 00:51:16,782
People are talking first pick overall
or a top ten.

1044
00:51:16,865 --> 00:51:18,867
The story that just sums up
the whole thing,

1045
00:51:18,950 --> 00:51:22,079
the night before his private workout
with the Browns…

1046
00:51:22,162 --> 00:51:23,371
[Erik] They all fly in.

1047
00:51:23,455 --> 00:51:26,124
They're gonna do dinner
with him in College Station

1048
00:51:26,208 --> 00:51:28,460
with a private workout the next morning.

1049
00:51:28,543 --> 00:51:30,003
Dinner goes awesome.

1050
00:51:30,087 --> 00:51:31,463
So we go up to our rooms…

1051
00:51:31,546 --> 00:51:33,507
[Billy] I miss about five calls from him.

1052
00:51:33,590 --> 00:51:37,010
I go over there, and it's a shit show.

1053
00:51:37,094 --> 00:51:39,971
Bottles of 1942 everywhere.

1054
00:51:40,055 --> 00:51:42,808
He's drinking
straight outta the wine bottles.

1055
00:51:42,891 --> 00:51:46,478
So the next day,
one of the receivers is missing.

1056
00:51:46,561 --> 00:51:48,772
This other receiver's drunk, can't get up.

1057
00:51:48,855 --> 00:51:52,234
So the Browns walk in the facility,
he's warming up,

1058
00:51:52,317 --> 00:51:55,445
they look over, they're like,
"Where's the receivers?"

1059
00:51:55,529 --> 00:51:57,906
And Johnny goes, "Ah, we're good."

1060
00:51:58,657 --> 00:52:00,450
You know who catches passes for him?

1061
00:52:00,534 --> 00:52:01,827
His lawyer,

1062
00:52:02,494 --> 00:52:03,453
his agent…

1063
00:52:03,537 --> 00:52:06,456
The first route, it's like,
"Okay, let's run a slant." I'm like…

1064
00:52:06,957 --> 00:52:09,751
Like I'm in high school, bros.
This is ridiculous.

1065
00:52:09,835 --> 00:52:12,087
I call him, like, "How'd it go?"

1066
00:52:12,671 --> 00:52:14,214
He said, "I fucking killed it."

1067
00:52:15,132 --> 00:52:16,258
[broadcaster] Welcome indeed

1068
00:52:16,341 --> 00:52:18,510
to New York City, to Radio City Music Hall

1069
00:52:18,593 --> 00:52:23,348
where, tonight, we find out
where Johnny Manziel will be playing…

1070
00:52:23,431 --> 00:52:26,226
There's cameras in our face
around our table the entire time.

1071
00:52:26,309 --> 00:52:28,687
From the minute we walk in,
it's like the Johnny Manziel Show.

1072
00:52:28,770 --> 00:52:30,856
"Where's he going?" And we have no idea.

1073
00:52:30,939 --> 00:52:34,776
With the first pick in the 2014 NFL draft,

1074
00:52:35,402 --> 00:52:39,447
the Houston Texans
select Jadeveon Clowney.

1075
00:52:40,448 --> 00:52:42,617
[Erik] Then you had
the Jacksonville Jaguars at three.

1076
00:52:42,701 --> 00:52:45,495
I had on good authority. They were ready
to take a franchise quarterback.

1077
00:52:45,579 --> 00:52:48,915
The Jacksonville Jaguars
select Blake Bortles.

1078
00:52:48,999 --> 00:52:50,041
[audience cheering]

1079
00:52:50,125 --> 00:52:51,877
[broadcaster] The first quarterback

1080
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:54,963
of this draft selected
is not Johnny Manziel.

1081
00:52:55,046 --> 00:52:58,550
Bortles goes three, and Johnny's like,
"Fuck, yes! I'm going to Dallas."

1082
00:52:58,633 --> 00:52:59,634
[broadcaster] What happens

1083
00:52:59,718 --> 00:53:02,179
when Jerry Jones gets the chance
to take Johnny Football?

1084
00:53:02,262 --> 00:53:05,515
[Johnny] I really thought the floor
would probably be Dallas at 16.

1085
00:53:05,599 --> 00:53:06,850
They wait the whole clock.

1086
00:53:06,933 --> 00:53:10,896
[broadcaster] If they take Johnny Manziel
right now, this place is gonna explode.

1087
00:53:10,979 --> 00:53:13,398
The Dallas Cowboys select

1088
00:53:13,481 --> 00:53:17,110
Zack Martin, guard, Notre Dame.

1089
00:53:17,194 --> 00:53:18,111
[crowd cheering]

1090
00:53:18,195 --> 00:53:21,114
We're sitting at the draft table,
and he's just going down the draft.

1091
00:53:21,198 --> 00:53:22,532
A lot of teams did their homework.

1092
00:53:22,616 --> 00:53:27,871
[broadcaster] Snubbed by team
after team after team after team.

1093
00:53:27,954 --> 00:53:30,874
[Johnny] I was nervous about it.
You can see it on my face on draft night.

1094
00:53:30,957 --> 00:53:33,543
I think you can see it
in a lot of people around me.

1095
00:53:33,627 --> 00:53:36,046
Like, if I don't get picked
in the first round, I'll probably

1096
00:53:36,129 --> 00:53:38,048
disappear, run off the face of the earth.

1097
00:53:38,131 --> 00:53:39,341
And I remember being horrified.

1098
00:53:39,424 --> 00:53:41,384
Like, my career's
on the line right now too.

1099
00:53:41,468 --> 00:53:44,471
So at that point, I'm, like,
texting Cleveland,

1100
00:53:44,554 --> 00:53:46,056
"Come back in, bro. Trust me."

1101
00:53:46,139 --> 00:53:49,142
-Browns at 26 just moved up to 22.
-[crowd] Johnny!

1102
00:53:49,226 --> 00:53:53,313
And you can hear the chant
in the Radio City Music Hall for Johnny.

1103
00:53:53,855 --> 00:53:55,440
[man laughing mockingly] Ha ha ha!

1104
00:53:57,859 --> 00:53:59,527
With the 22nd pick,

1105
00:53:59,611 --> 00:54:01,321
the Cleveland Browns select

1106
00:54:01,404 --> 00:54:02,781
Johnny Manziel,

1107
00:54:03,740 --> 00:54:05,408
quarterback, Texas A&M.

1108
00:54:06,201 --> 00:54:07,535
[broadcaster] My goodness.

1109
00:54:07,619 --> 00:54:09,412
[audience cheering, applauding]

1110
00:54:09,496 --> 00:54:11,331
[Erik] That moment was unbelievable.

1111
00:54:12,499 --> 00:54:15,919
[broadcaster] Right there,
is the hope for the city of Cleveland.

1112
00:54:16,002 --> 00:54:19,506
[Erik] As down as it felt… It felt like
we were in there for three days.

1113
00:54:19,589 --> 00:54:22,425
He walks across that stage,
and does the Money Manziel.

1114
00:54:22,509 --> 00:54:24,052
[crowd cheering, whistling]

1115
00:54:27,472 --> 00:54:28,640
[Erik] Holy shit.

1116
00:54:28,723 --> 00:54:30,517
He went in the first round.

1117
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:31,810
It all works out.

1118
00:54:33,144 --> 00:54:37,357
[broadcaster] The Browns finally get
the face of their franchise.

1119
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:39,025
[Erik] I was like, "We're gonna make it."

1120
00:54:39,109 --> 00:54:41,861
"He's gonna be the savior.
They're gonna build statues of this guy."

1121
00:54:42,445 --> 00:54:44,698
And then, I'll never forget,
we leave the draft,

1122
00:54:44,781 --> 00:54:46,533
we're at this light and the sunroof's open

1123
00:54:46,616 --> 00:54:47,617
and Johnny's like,

1124
00:54:47,701 --> 00:54:50,870
crushing shots of whatever
in this limo with his family and friends,

1125
00:54:50,954 --> 00:54:52,080
and we look up

1126
00:54:52,163 --> 00:54:55,625
and it was the first Nike ad on the side
of this building in New York,

1127
00:54:55,709 --> 00:54:57,043
and I was like, "Wow."

1128
00:54:58,712 --> 00:54:59,546
"Let's go."

1129
00:55:01,298 --> 00:55:02,924
[plane whizzing]

1130
00:55:03,008 --> 00:55:04,676
[soft beat music playing]

1131
00:55:04,759 --> 00:55:07,304
[woman] Well, the news is
Johnny Manziel is having

1132
00:55:07,387 --> 00:55:09,389
a ripple effect across Browns Nation.

1133
00:55:09,472 --> 00:55:12,976
-[people shouting] Johnny!
-[man] Whoa!

1134
00:55:13,059 --> 00:55:14,853
[Johnny] You know, the people around me

1135
00:55:14,936 --> 00:55:17,188
that I had, um,
were genuinely very, very excited.

1136
00:55:17,272 --> 00:55:18,982
[people shouting]

1137
00:55:19,733 --> 00:55:22,569
You know, they thought this was
a great opportunity for me to come in

1138
00:55:22,652 --> 00:55:25,530
and to revitalize a franchise
that had been struggling for a long time.

1139
00:55:26,489 --> 00:55:27,824
You know, every day that passes,

1140
00:55:27,907 --> 00:55:31,202
every week that goes by is…
is only a positive thing for me.

1141
00:55:31,286 --> 00:55:35,206
There was so much pressure
on him and expectations,

1142
00:55:35,290 --> 00:55:37,500
and you could tell he was struggling.

1143
00:55:38,168 --> 00:55:40,670
[Johnny] Didn't take me very long
to be in Cleveland

1144
00:55:40,754 --> 00:55:43,256
to find out
that I wasn't gonna be happy there.

1145
00:55:43,340 --> 00:55:45,842
I had every single thing
that I could've ever wanted.

1146
00:55:45,925 --> 00:55:47,344
You have money, you have fame,

1147
00:55:47,427 --> 00:55:50,638
you're a first-round draft pick battling
for a starting quarterback position,

1148
00:55:50,722 --> 00:55:53,183
and when I got everything that I wanted,

1149
00:55:53,266 --> 00:55:55,810
I think I was the most empty
that I've ever felt inside.

1150
00:55:55,894 --> 00:55:57,187
[indistinct chatter]

1151
00:55:57,270 --> 00:55:59,647
[Johnny] You know,
I'd always had a great time

1152
00:55:59,731 --> 00:56:01,358
in the locker room with my guys

1153
00:56:01,441 --> 00:56:05,487
and the practice and the camaraderie
and everything that comes along with it,

1154
00:56:06,613 --> 00:56:08,823
but I never felt that way in the NFL.

1155
00:56:09,783 --> 00:56:12,285
What it takes to be the face of franchise
each and every day,

1156
00:56:12,369 --> 00:56:14,996
that's just not who he is,
and he never put that much into it.

1157
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:18,500
If he wanted to do it, his skill set
and how good he is as a player,

1158
00:56:18,583 --> 00:56:20,293
he could've done it.
He never worked at it.

1159
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:24,756
[Erik] I started seeing signs
pretty early on in Cleveland.

1160
00:56:24,839 --> 00:56:27,217
The one thing for me
was he always loved the game,

1161
00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:30,553
and he'd call me after practice, like,
"I don't… Man, it's not fun anymore."

1162
00:56:31,471 --> 00:56:34,557
Their GM's calling me going,
"He doesn't watch tape."

1163
00:56:34,641 --> 00:56:36,559
I'm like, "Well,
he's gotta watch some tape."

1164
00:56:36,643 --> 00:56:40,772
He's like, "EB, his iPad hours is 0.00."

1165
00:56:42,607 --> 00:56:43,775
Zero.

1166
00:56:43,858 --> 00:56:46,277
I would sit in my condo
in Cleveland downtown

1167
00:56:46,361 --> 00:56:48,780
and just feel like it was
the only place that I could get away

1168
00:56:48,863 --> 00:56:50,281
from everybody and anything.

1169
00:56:51,116 --> 00:56:54,536
And I would look out those windows
every day and I just felt empty.

1170
00:56:55,036 --> 00:57:00,708
I went from one fishbowl city to another,
and I wanted nothing to do with football.

1171
00:57:00,792 --> 00:57:03,837
I wanted nothing to do
with stepping on that field.

1172
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:05,713
And I had bigger issues in my life

1173
00:57:05,797 --> 00:57:09,592
than being able to go out
and play free-spirited, flowing football.

1174
00:57:11,094 --> 00:57:16,474
I had gone from the whirlwind ride
of 2012 in College Station,

1175
00:57:16,558 --> 00:57:19,727
the Heisman Trophy, the Cotton Bowl,
the NCAA investigation,

1176
00:57:19,811 --> 00:57:22,814
straight into another season,
into the NFL draft.

1177
00:57:23,815 --> 00:57:25,358
I just didn't get a break.

1178
00:57:26,151 --> 00:57:28,361
[Johnny] It's been life for so long now.

1179
00:57:28,445 --> 00:57:31,448
I can't really think back
to the days of how it was

1180
00:57:31,531 --> 00:57:34,701
when I didn't have people tweeting
or taking pictures of wherever I was.

1181
00:57:35,910 --> 00:57:38,830
[Johnny] I truly almost see those times
in black and white.

1182
00:57:39,581 --> 00:57:42,750
And I didn't know
why I couldn't see sunny days.

1183
00:57:43,334 --> 00:57:46,504
[commentator] …Manziel,
and Manziel is buried.

1184
00:57:46,588 --> 00:57:48,840
And there's your first cash sign.

1185
00:57:48,923 --> 00:57:51,092
This thing of the, you know,
show me the money.

1186
00:57:51,176 --> 00:57:55,555
Every time they sack him,
the defensemen do that right in his face.

1187
00:57:55,638 --> 00:57:57,557
He had a terrible start in the NFL.

1188
00:57:57,640 --> 00:57:58,725
[presenter] It was horrific…

1189
00:57:58,808 --> 00:58:01,936
[presenter 1] Nothing like
the Johnny Football we saw at Texas A&M.

1190
00:58:02,020 --> 00:58:05,482
I'm supposed to be the savior. [inhales]
You know, I'm just looking for a good day.

1191
00:58:05,565 --> 00:58:07,650
In the back of my head all the time,

1192
00:58:07,734 --> 00:58:10,695
I was telling myself,
"You do not wanna fuckin' be here."

1193
00:58:11,237 --> 00:58:12,947
And "Do what you need to do to get out."

1194
00:58:13,031 --> 00:58:15,825
[presenter] Stories surfaced about him
being late for team meetings.

1195
00:58:15,909 --> 00:58:18,286
He was demoted
to third-string quarterback.

1196
00:58:18,369 --> 00:58:21,623
A high-price, first-round draft pick
heading in the wrong direction.

1197
00:58:21,706 --> 00:58:22,874
Yeah, I…

1198
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:27,003
You know, I made the decision
to go out on Friday night.

1199
00:58:27,795 --> 00:58:30,340
I think I was trying
to suppress how I felt,

1200
00:58:30,423 --> 00:58:34,135
and get out of being Johnny Football.

1201
00:58:34,719 --> 00:58:37,764
When he turned pro,
the partying became more public.

1202
00:58:37,847 --> 00:58:39,349
-I can't hear.
-He can't hear you.

1203
00:58:39,432 --> 00:58:41,601
There's too much money… in my… hand.

1204
00:58:42,519 --> 00:58:44,771
Nothing that I'm doing
on the weekends is affecting my job.

1205
00:58:44,854 --> 00:58:47,649
Nothing on the weekends that I'm doing,
um, is hopefully hurting

1206
00:58:47,732 --> 00:58:49,275
any of my teammates in my locker room.

1207
00:58:49,776 --> 00:58:54,155
[Paul] So he kinda just said, "Fuck it.
I just got $8.5 million,

1208
00:58:54,239 --> 00:58:56,824
so I'll just go do what I want."

1209
00:58:56,908 --> 00:59:00,745
People around me always told me, like,
"You're doing this on purpose."

1210
00:59:00,828 --> 00:59:03,164
Now, in my conscious mind,
that didn't make sense to me.

1211
00:59:03,248 --> 00:59:04,999
He just keeps putting himself
in situations

1212
00:59:05,083 --> 00:59:06,960
where he's getting himself in trouble.

1213
00:59:07,043 --> 00:59:09,963
That guy knows
that he represents more than himself

1214
00:59:10,046 --> 00:59:11,506
and has issues off the field.

1215
00:59:11,589 --> 00:59:12,924
It's… It is frustrating.

1216
00:59:13,007 --> 00:59:16,094
I wanted to get him help.
We all knew he was self-destructing.

1217
00:59:16,177 --> 00:59:18,346
[Erik] It was like he stopped caring.

1218
00:59:18,429 --> 00:59:20,848
And I was like, "Okay, we gotta do rehab."

1219
00:59:20,932 --> 00:59:24,269
[female presenter] Johnny Football,
the big bust of a rookie last year,

1220
00:59:24,352 --> 00:59:26,604
entered a treatment program on Wednesday.

1221
00:59:26,688 --> 00:59:28,356
It was hard the first couple days,

1222
00:59:28,439 --> 00:59:31,150
obviously being a guy
that's on every single TV.

1223
00:59:31,234 --> 00:59:35,154
He's been somewhat of a legend,
and perhaps to his own peril here.

1224
00:59:35,238 --> 00:59:37,282
[Johnny] I did have people
trying to figure out

1225
00:59:37,365 --> 00:59:38,908
which treatment center I was at,

1226
00:59:38,992 --> 00:59:41,119
and I remember
walking down the hill one day

1227
00:59:41,202 --> 00:59:43,705
and seeing this rental car drive
right past us,

1228
00:59:43,788 --> 00:59:46,499
and it was Jeremy Fowler
from ESPN, and I just…

1229
00:59:46,583 --> 00:59:48,501
It threw me for a loop
whenever that happened.

1230
00:59:48,585 --> 00:59:51,546
[female presenter] When he returned
to the team after ten weeks of rehab,

1231
00:59:51,629 --> 00:59:54,424
he looked and sounded like a changed man.

1232
00:59:54,507 --> 00:59:58,303
I'm gonna say "Loser in life."
Can't get out of it.

1233
00:59:58,386 --> 01:00:01,222
The hype and everything is
a little bit tempered and a little down,

1234
01:00:01,306 --> 01:00:03,433
and that, for me, is a good thing.

1235
01:00:03,516 --> 01:00:05,977
Got out of rehab.
He was doing awesome. He was focused.

1236
01:00:06,060 --> 01:00:09,022
He started playing,
and you could just gradually see,

1237
01:00:09,105 --> 01:00:12,525
once he started being around
other influences, here we go again.

1238
01:00:12,609 --> 01:00:16,321
When you take one step
onto a slippery slope,

1239
01:00:16,404 --> 01:00:18,281
you know, it goes pretty quick.

1240
01:00:18,364 --> 01:00:20,992
Remember, he went to rehab,
not supposed to drink.

1241
01:00:21,075 --> 01:00:23,161
Drank, got into a fight
with his girlfriend.

1242
01:00:23,244 --> 01:00:26,456
[broadcaster] Both Manziel and the woman
told police they had been drinking.

1243
01:00:26,539 --> 01:00:28,124
No charges were filed.

1244
01:00:28,207 --> 01:00:32,003
And after that, it started to spiral
a little bit more and more and more.

1245
01:00:32,086 --> 01:00:33,463
[suspenseful music playing]

1246
01:00:33,546 --> 01:00:38,676
I thought I would go to Vegas
on a Saturday afternoon

1247
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:42,847
and I would turn around and come back
and be in time for the game the next day.

1248
01:00:42,930 --> 01:00:44,557
[presenter] It sounded a little cuckoo,

1249
01:00:44,641 --> 01:00:48,102
but he had the wig on,
there was a fake mustache involved.

1250
01:00:48,186 --> 01:00:49,896
[Johnny] I sit down at a blackjack table,

1251
01:00:49,979 --> 01:00:52,899
and I can start to see people,
you know, looking at me a little bit.

1252
01:00:53,650 --> 01:00:56,736
This is when the Twitter shitstorm
absolutely hits the fan.

1253
01:00:57,779 --> 01:01:00,657
I don't know anything
about getting a plane to leave Vegas

1254
01:01:00,740 --> 01:01:03,159
to go back to Cleveland.
I'm looking at commercial flights.

1255
01:01:03,242 --> 01:01:05,828
I missed the last one at 10:30,
and at this point, I'm like,

1256
01:01:05,912 --> 01:01:08,414
"Well, let's fucking rip it tonight."

1257
01:01:09,165 --> 01:01:13,002
I completely detached from all of it.

1258
01:01:13,461 --> 01:01:16,130
Johnny Football is now looking
for another team this morning.

1259
01:01:16,214 --> 01:01:18,091
The Cleveland Browns cutting ties

1260
01:01:18,174 --> 01:01:20,802
with Johnny Manziel
and his bad-boy behavior.

1261
01:01:20,885 --> 01:01:22,095
[presenter] There is no future

1262
01:01:22,178 --> 01:01:24,138
for Johnny Manziel
with the Cleveland Browns,

1263
01:01:24,222 --> 01:01:27,308
certainly not anymore,
as the Browns have finally realized.

1264
01:01:27,392 --> 01:01:29,268
Manziel is not reachable.

1265
01:01:29,352 --> 01:01:30,520
[Paul] It was just…

1266
01:01:30,603 --> 01:01:33,481
It was disastrous.
It was… It was the fall.

1267
01:01:33,981 --> 01:01:36,859
[presenter] One of the biggest busts
in NFL history.

1268
01:01:36,943 --> 01:01:41,489
"Tiny," "selfish," "undisciplined,"
"immature," "sort of a brat."

1269
01:01:41,572 --> 01:01:44,867
[presenter 1] Johnny Manziel arrived
as the future of Cleveland football,

1270
01:01:44,951 --> 01:01:47,995
and now he will soon leave
as an embarrassment.

1271
01:01:48,079 --> 01:01:50,081
[gloomy music playing]

1272
01:01:51,124 --> 01:01:52,959
[Johnny] When I got cut from the Browns,

1273
01:01:53,042 --> 01:01:56,546
I felt like the biggest weight
lifted off my shoulders ever.

1274
01:01:57,255 --> 01:01:59,966
But that didn't translate
into what I experienced

1275
01:02:00,049 --> 01:02:01,634
and what I… [inhales deeply]

1276
01:02:01,718 --> 01:02:04,053
…would deal with in my everyday life.

1277
01:02:04,137 --> 01:02:05,805
[news reporter] Dallas police say

1278
01:02:05,888 --> 01:02:07,682
they are examining
hotel surveillance video

1279
01:02:07,765 --> 01:02:12,395
showing an encounter between Manziel
and his ex-girlfriend, Colleen Crowley.

1280
01:02:12,478 --> 01:02:15,231
Crowley said Manziel
led her down a back stairway,

1281
01:02:15,314 --> 01:02:16,941
and that she told the valet,

1282
01:02:17,024 --> 01:02:20,236
"Please don't let him take me.
I'm scared for my life."

1283
01:02:20,319 --> 01:02:23,698
[Johnny] Throughout that relationship,
I was unfaithful

1284
01:02:23,781 --> 01:02:27,243
and, you know,
we get into a heated, heated argument.

1285
01:02:27,994 --> 01:02:32,832
You know, she's trying
to jump out of the car, and, um…

1286
01:02:35,835 --> 01:02:37,211
[tsks]

1287
01:02:37,295 --> 01:02:41,299
Colleen Crowley has obtained
a protective order from a judge in Texas

1288
01:02:41,382 --> 01:02:44,886
that will keep Johnny Manziel
away from her for two years.

1289
01:02:44,969 --> 01:02:46,888
It was so out of control,

1290
01:02:46,971 --> 01:02:48,639
but he couldn't hear it.

1291
01:02:48,723 --> 01:02:51,225
His mind was so gone. I mean, he was just…

1292
01:02:51,309 --> 01:02:53,436
Did you apologize for what happened?

1293
01:02:53,936 --> 01:02:55,646
What about rehab, Johnny?
Gonna go to rehab?

1294
01:02:55,730 --> 01:02:57,690
We tried to get him in another rehab.

1295
01:02:57,774 --> 01:02:59,108
Took him, you… you know.

1296
01:03:00,067 --> 01:03:01,110
He escapes.

1297
01:03:01,194 --> 01:03:03,571
[man] Friends and family are concerned.
Everything going well?

1298
01:03:03,654 --> 01:03:05,698
My friends and family are all right.
They're with me.

1299
01:03:05,782 --> 01:03:09,035
[Paul] My relationship
with Johnny was very strained.

1300
01:03:09,118 --> 01:03:11,412
"I've done everything I can for ya.
You're not listening."

1301
01:03:11,496 --> 01:03:13,831
"You're self-destructing.
You're disrespectful."

1302
01:03:13,915 --> 01:03:17,835
Pretty much "Go fuck yourself. Go…
You know more than I do, so go ahead."

1303
01:03:17,919 --> 01:03:21,923
[female presenter] His dad says Manziel
refused rehab twice in the past week.

1304
01:03:22,006 --> 01:03:23,674
I said, "If you miss
one counseling session,

1305
01:03:23,758 --> 01:03:25,510
I will have to literally terminate you,"

1306
01:03:25,593 --> 01:03:28,262
which doesn't happen in agent business,
much less to Johnny Football.

1307
01:03:28,346 --> 01:03:32,058
[female presenter] Even his agent,
Erik Burkhardt, is dumping Manziel.

1308
01:03:32,141 --> 01:03:35,478
[Johnny] I got released
as a client of my uncle,

1309
01:03:35,561 --> 01:03:37,522
who was doing my attorney work.

1310
01:03:37,605 --> 01:03:40,691
My dad withdrew his name from my company,

1311
01:03:40,775 --> 01:03:42,735
and the people around me, closest to me,

1312
01:03:42,819 --> 01:03:45,988
were in the mindset of,
"We have to let him go."

1313
01:03:46,614 --> 01:03:48,407
And, you know, when that happened,

1314
01:03:48,491 --> 01:03:52,078
it was full-blown "I'm gonna rub
this whole thing in your fucking face."

1315
01:03:52,161 --> 01:03:55,414
"You think you've seen something now?
You haven't seen shit yet."

1316
01:03:55,498 --> 01:03:57,500
[rock music playing]

1317
01:04:01,128 --> 01:04:02,839
[Johnny] You know,
the first point in my life

1318
01:04:02,922 --> 01:04:04,799
where I really ramped up my drug use

1319
01:04:04,882 --> 01:04:06,217
to a constant, daily thing.

1320
01:04:06,300 --> 01:04:09,887
-[man] Johnny, got anything you wanna say?
-[man 1] Johnny Football. How's it going?

1321
01:04:10,012 --> 01:04:13,266
[Johnny] I was mostly doing a lot of coke
and taking Oxys.

1322
01:04:13,850 --> 01:04:20,022
I went from 215 pounds in January
to 175 pounds by September.

1323
01:04:21,148 --> 01:04:23,651
The wires in my head seemed very twisted.

1324
01:04:24,277 --> 01:04:25,862
I got diagnosed as bipolar,

1325
01:04:25,945 --> 01:04:29,448
and I felt like it was the same as being
called an alcoholic or a drug addict.

1326
01:04:29,532 --> 01:04:33,327
[presenter] The money and the fame
and the criticism and the social media

1327
01:04:33,411 --> 01:04:35,204
it is eating him alive.

1328
01:04:35,288 --> 01:04:37,540
[Johnny] I think I was just
running from problems.

1329
01:04:37,623 --> 01:04:40,418
Probably a f… five-million-dollar bender.

1330
01:04:40,501 --> 01:04:43,546
[Johnny shouting]

1331
01:04:43,629 --> 01:04:46,716
[Johnny] Direct self-sabotage,
trying to burn this thing down.

1332
01:04:47,466 --> 01:04:50,136
I had planned
to do everything that I wanted to do

1333
01:04:50,219 --> 01:04:51,721
at that point in my life.

1334
01:04:51,804 --> 01:04:55,683
Spend as much money as I possibly could,
and then my plan was to take my life.

1335
01:04:55,766 --> 01:04:57,768
[rock music ends]

1336
01:04:58,895 --> 01:05:01,230
[Johnny] You know, I… Months prior,
went and bought a gun

1337
01:05:01,314 --> 01:05:02,732
that I knew I was gonna use.

1338
01:05:02,815 --> 01:05:05,109
[rhythmical drumming playing]

1339
01:05:05,192 --> 01:05:07,236
[Johnny] I wanted it to get
as bad as humanly possible

1340
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:08,279
to where it made sense,

1341
01:05:08,362 --> 01:05:10,865
and it made it seem like
an excuse and an out for me.

1342
01:05:13,034 --> 01:05:15,328
Still, to this day,
I don't know what happened,

1343
01:05:15,411 --> 01:05:17,038
but the gun just clicked on me.

1344
01:05:20,333 --> 01:05:22,001
I couldn't fix what I'd done

1345
01:05:22,710 --> 01:05:27,506
with Colleen, with the NFL,
with A&M, everything.

1346
01:05:27,590 --> 01:05:28,841
You know, at that point in time,

1347
01:05:28,925 --> 01:05:30,927
I didn't have much
of a relationship with my family.

1348
01:05:32,219 --> 01:05:33,220
[child cheering]

1349
01:05:33,804 --> 01:05:34,764
The ride was over.

1350
01:05:37,850 --> 01:05:39,769
[rhythmical drumming continues]

1351
01:05:39,852 --> 01:05:43,314
[Johnny] I left LA not knowing
where I was gonna go, um,

1352
01:05:43,397 --> 01:05:46,400
not knowing what was gonna happen,
and I went back to Texas,

1353
01:05:46,484 --> 01:05:49,570
and, you know, I didn't really say
a whole lot to my dad,

1354
01:05:49,654 --> 01:05:51,489
just kinda showed up at the front door

1355
01:05:51,572 --> 01:05:54,075
and pretty much saying,
"I don't have anywhere else to turn, man."

1356
01:05:56,619 --> 01:05:58,829
-[birds chirping]
-[Johnny whistles] Come on.

1357
01:05:59,372 --> 01:06:00,456
[breathes in] Come here.

1358
01:06:01,207 --> 01:06:02,583
-Come here.
-[Paul chuckles]

1359
01:06:03,751 --> 01:06:05,753
-[Johnny laughs]
-[dog panting]

1360
01:06:06,462 --> 01:06:10,091
I took him yesterday and he was runnin',
runnin' wild on the golf course.

1361
01:06:10,591 --> 01:06:12,677
-I'll send you a video.
-You should take him every day.

1362
01:06:13,552 --> 01:06:15,471
He doesn't wanna stay
in the house, I know that.

1363
01:06:16,097 --> 01:06:19,100
[Paul] It's been a long,
long road, and it's been…

1364
01:06:19,684 --> 01:06:21,310
I don't know if it's been great

1365
01:06:22,103 --> 01:06:23,354
or if it's been bad.

1366
01:06:23,854 --> 01:06:25,815
That's kinda still up for debate.

1367
01:06:25,898 --> 01:06:27,149
[Paul] Come up the hill.

1368
01:06:29,318 --> 01:06:31,278
[Johnny] All right.
I'll drive down the first one.

1369
01:06:32,029 --> 01:06:34,532
[Paul] But we're blessed,
and he's still with us.

1370
01:06:34,615 --> 01:06:36,659
[soft music playing]

1371
01:06:36,742 --> 01:06:38,536
[grunts softly] Yeah.

1372
01:06:39,328 --> 01:06:41,622
[Paul] And we can mend
all the fences still.

1373
01:06:42,957 --> 01:06:44,709
[Johnny] Hey, you hit
one good out of three.

1374
01:06:44,792 --> 01:06:47,420
But I think Johnny's got
a lot better days coming

1375
01:06:47,503 --> 01:06:48,462
than what he's had.

1376
01:06:50,631 --> 01:06:54,301
[Meri] A lot of people wonder, you know,
why isn't he doing anything?

1377
01:06:55,970 --> 01:06:58,764
He's not in a place mentally

1378
01:06:58,848 --> 01:07:01,684
to go out and do something right now.

1379
01:07:03,352 --> 01:07:06,147
I know how much good
he can do in this world,

1380
01:07:06,814 --> 01:07:11,819
but I know the struggle he goes through
every single day of his life.

1381
01:07:13,112 --> 01:07:15,156
And it's never gonna go away.

1382
01:07:17,533 --> 01:07:20,036
[Johnny] I think people do maybe worry
about me sometimes,

1383
01:07:20,119 --> 01:07:21,579
but, I mean, that… that's natural.

1384
01:07:21,662 --> 01:07:23,664
You know, I've given them
reason to do that.

1385
01:07:24,707 --> 01:07:27,877
I didn't go into Texas A&M
thinking I was gonna play two years

1386
01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:29,962
and end up in the NFL draft.

1387
01:07:30,046 --> 01:07:33,007
You know, I thought if I ever
got to play football in college,

1388
01:07:33,090 --> 01:07:36,093
that would be
an unbelievable accomplishment for me.

1389
01:07:36,177 --> 01:07:37,595
And I tell people all the time,

1390
01:07:37,678 --> 01:07:39,805
it wouldn't have mattered
where I was at, um, what team.

1391
01:07:39,889 --> 01:07:41,807
Wherever it was,
at that point in time in my life,

1392
01:07:41,891 --> 01:07:43,893
I was incapable
of being a good NFL quarterback.

1393
01:07:43,976 --> 01:07:46,187
-[announcer]
-[crowd cheering, applauding]

1394
01:07:52,443 --> 01:07:54,361
[Johnny] You know,
when you get to that point,

1395
01:07:54,445 --> 01:07:56,113
you're supposed to fuckin' know better.

1396
01:07:56,197 --> 01:07:58,532
Supposed to know what to do,
behave like a pro.

1397
01:07:58,616 --> 01:08:00,576
You're supposed to push
your career forward,

1398
01:08:00,659 --> 01:08:04,747
your athleticism forward, you know,
your strive for being a great athlete.

1399
01:08:04,830 --> 01:08:05,915
[uplifting music playing]

1400
01:08:05,998 --> 01:08:09,376
[Johnny] But when it came down to it,
you know, I was a frat boy,

1401
01:08:10,044 --> 01:08:12,254
and it's just my frat
was the football team.

1402
01:08:13,339 --> 01:08:15,591
I loved what I did. I loved the freedom.

1403
01:08:15,674 --> 01:08:17,176
I loved being the guy

1404
01:08:17,259 --> 01:08:21,430
that got to go do all these amazing things
on and off the field.

1405
01:08:22,014 --> 01:08:24,225
You know, but at some point in time,
you have to look back

1406
01:08:24,308 --> 01:08:26,894
and think, "Fuck, was enough ever enough?"

1407
01:08:27,436 --> 01:08:29,063
You know, are you ever gonna be satisfied,

1408
01:08:29,146 --> 01:08:31,816
or you're just gonna continue
living that frat-boy life

1409
01:08:31,899 --> 01:08:34,151
for year after year after year

1410
01:08:34,235 --> 01:08:36,654
until you finally look up,
and you're still living it,

1411
01:08:36,737 --> 01:08:39,573
and it's been detrimental
to where you wanted to go in life

1412
01:08:39,657 --> 01:08:41,117
and what you wanted to do.

1413
01:08:43,619 --> 01:08:46,705
You know, it's hard for me to sit back
and look at these days.

1414
01:08:47,873 --> 01:08:50,334
It feels like a distant memory
for the most part.

1415
01:08:51,460 --> 01:08:53,712
But, you know, I'm very much
on the pursuit of happiness

1416
01:08:53,796 --> 01:08:57,174
in a way more simplistic form
than I was years ago.

1417
01:08:57,925 --> 01:09:00,803
I don't really see myself
as the… as the Johnny-Football-craze

1418
01:09:00,886 --> 01:09:03,639
that's kinda…
thatt's kinda swept Aggielands.

1419
01:09:03,722 --> 01:09:05,683
That swept around the nation a little bit.

1420
01:09:07,893 --> 01:09:09,979
Um, I see myself as Johnny Manziel.

1421
01:09:10,062 --> 01:09:13,566
I'm a guy from Kerrville, Texas,
who just tried to be a laid-back guy

1422
01:09:13,649 --> 01:09:15,484
who likes to hang out with my friends

1423
01:09:15,568 --> 01:09:18,028
and be a normal college student
just like anybody else.

1424
01:09:18,529 --> 01:09:20,531
[crowd cheering]

1425
01:09:30,541 --> 01:09:32,543
[music ends]

1426
01:09:41,468 --> 01:09:43,470
[closing theme song playing]