This excuse didn’t work with your parents, teachers, cops or frankly anyone to be honest. In the immortal words of everyone, just because they can do it, doesn’t mean YOU CAN DO IT. Everyone isn’t Johnny Manziel, that is a gift and curse he has to live with. There are a lot of things Manziel can do that your average athlete can’t, so it goes both ways.
So, while what he is saying is technically true until he figures this out he’s different, he will continue to get caught in compromising situations.
“For me, I feel since I’ve been here, my lifestyle has changed dramatically,” Manziel said, via Cleveland.com. “I think me, I’m usually in my home, not venturing out very much and I don’t get a lot of time to go out and see much of Cleveland. So one night that I did get a chance to go out and did stay out a little later on a decision that I made on my own I felt at the time was OK. I know there’s other guys around the league and other guys in this locker room that do the same thing and enjoy their time when they’re out of the building, and I know that at night when I go to bed I need to make sure that I’m ready and capable of going to work the next day and doing my job to the duties that I have being in this building the next day.”
Manziel probably didn’t incite a brawl at 2:30am, but the fact he is Johnny Manziel means the possibility of that happening is greater than others. He needs to understand that he needs to take precautions that other don’t.
H/T PFT