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Manziel case was tipping point
Johnny Manziel has galvanized opinion against the NCAA's hypocrisy.
Updated Aug 9, 2013 7:22 AM ET
Once upon a time in this country, there were ugly, racist, tyrannical rules dictating where a black person could sit on a bus. There were all kinds of these laws, actually, created and defended by the racists who benefited from them.
What kick-started change was an average, everyday woman named Rosa Parks, who had grown tired of being tired. Hers was not the first protest, nor was it particularly the best. It was merely the tipping point for many Americans long since tired of these immoral laws.
On a much less historically significant scale, so it is with Johnny Football — and no, this is not intended in any way to compare the vast evil of Jim Crow to an incompetent NCAA investigation, or to slings from TV commentators.
It is intended to say, wrong is wrong.
Whether Johnny Manziel meant to start a movement or simply wanted new rims for the Benz mommy and daddy bought him matters not in the least. His “autograph” situation provoked ESPN analyst Jay Bilas to depants the NCAA on Twitter with regard to its using athletes’ names to boost jersey sales, thus leading the Association to announce Thursday that it plans to exit the jersey-selling game.
This is not about defending a white kid after standing idly by as kids such as Terrelle Pryor were pilloried. This has absolutely zero to do with race. What I believe to be true is, after years of watching black kids, white kids and mostly poor kids of all colors villainized for accepting a free sandwich or plane fare to go home and attend a funeral or, God forbid, wanting a cut of the billions of dollars they make for people not doing much in the way of heavy lifting, this was America’s tipping point.
My comparison of Johnny Football to Rosa Parks, a brave and willing American hero, is based only on Manziel's role as a tipping point.
Wrong is wrong, and Johnny Football unwittingly may have accomplished what reasonable people have been unable to — a necessary change to how we treat college athletes.
Full article below . . . .
http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefoo...se-was-tipping-point-in-ncaa-hypocrisy-080813
Johnny Manziel has galvanized opinion against the NCAA's hypocrisy.
Updated Aug 9, 2013 7:22 AM ET
Once upon a time in this country, there were ugly, racist, tyrannical rules dictating where a black person could sit on a bus. There were all kinds of these laws, actually, created and defended by the racists who benefited from them.
What kick-started change was an average, everyday woman named Rosa Parks, who had grown tired of being tired. Hers was not the first protest, nor was it particularly the best. It was merely the tipping point for many Americans long since tired of these immoral laws.
On a much less historically significant scale, so it is with Johnny Football — and no, this is not intended in any way to compare the vast evil of Jim Crow to an incompetent NCAA investigation, or to slings from TV commentators.
It is intended to say, wrong is wrong.
Whether Johnny Manziel meant to start a movement or simply wanted new rims for the Benz mommy and daddy bought him matters not in the least. His “autograph” situation provoked ESPN analyst Jay Bilas to depants the NCAA on Twitter with regard to its using athletes’ names to boost jersey sales, thus leading the Association to announce Thursday that it plans to exit the jersey-selling game.
This is not about defending a white kid after standing idly by as kids such as Terrelle Pryor were pilloried. This has absolutely zero to do with race. What I believe to be true is, after years of watching black kids, white kids and mostly poor kids of all colors villainized for accepting a free sandwich or plane fare to go home and attend a funeral or, God forbid, wanting a cut of the billions of dollars they make for people not doing much in the way of heavy lifting, this was America’s tipping point.
My comparison of Johnny Football to Rosa Parks, a brave and willing American hero, is based only on Manziel's role as a tipping point.
Wrong is wrong, and Johnny Football unwittingly may have accomplished what reasonable people have been unable to — a necessary change to how we treat college athletes.
Full article below . . . .
http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefoo...se-was-tipping-point-in-ncaa-hypocrisy-080813
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