Former Texas A&M Aggies Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel has become notorious for his incessant partying which ultimately played a big role in derailing his football career. But in a pretty shocking twist, he’s now calling out his former college head coach for doing the same thing.
During a recent interview with Shannon Sharpe, Johnny Manziel called out former Texas A&M Aggies head coach Kevin Sumlin for his “hypocritical” attempts to get him to change his ways, revealing that Sumlin was doing the same thing as Manziel “behind the scenes.”
“I think where our relationship fell out a little bit is, how do you have a guy, who’s a grown man, telling me what I should do? Obviously my guy, my coach that I’m looking up to, my head football coach, is telling me to live a certain way and put all this partying and all of this behind you. But if you know anything about Kevin Sumlin, that’s what he’s doing behind the scenes,” Johnny Manziel said.
“We’re at the 40-40 club in New York. We’re in the back room, playing pool with Ace of Spades, chilling. Coach is there, this is what he does. So now looking back at it, it’s hypocritical to me.”
Manziel is still appreciative of everything that Sumlin did for him, but he said he just wants the truth to be known.
“My relationship with Kevin Sumlin was great. He was my dog. He rode for me hard. He went to bat for me. He went to war for me, in a multitude of different scenarios,” Manziel said.
“Our relationship is great and will forever be great, and I do not sit here today as a judge of a person who helped me get to the point where I wanted to be in life, by no means whatsoever. I’m calling a spade a spade. And I’m just going to give the God’s honest truth of what I know it to be. If that ruffles some feathers, so be it. That’s the way the world goes.”
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