When Johnny Manziel was first drafted by the Cleveland Browns, nobody knew exactly what he would do. Before long, he was heading to Vegas and there was a sense that the world needed to let Johnny be Johnny. Broadway Joe Namath had his name tossed out as an example, and many Browns fans bargained away the implications of their new party-boy QB by claiming he wasn’t doing anything different than other players; he was merely on a much bigger stage and in a generation being constantly photographed. It has been a divisive topic around these parts for a long time, and the other mantra has always been to let the kid play football on the field as an ultimate test of whether he has a future.
Don’t blame Mike Pettine for benching Johnny Manziel. Blame Johnny.
