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bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 03:39 PM Aug 2014

Johnny Manziel gives middle finger to the professional football team from Washington D.C.


Call him Johnny Flip-Off.

Browns rookie QB Johnny Manziel may have struggled hitting open receivers but he was on target with an obscene gesture directed at the Washington [professional football team] in a 24-23 preseason loss on Monday night.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/johnny-manziel-middle-finger-washington-redskins-bench-browns-preseason-loss-article-1.1908242#ixzz3ArumsTBb
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Johnny Manziel gives middle finger to the professional football team from Washington D.C. (Original Post) bluestateguy Aug 2014 OP
A backhanded birdie. Rex Aug 2014 #1
Classy! :sarcasm: elleng Aug 2014 #2
Loser. n/t Comrade Grumpy Aug 2014 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Aug 2014 #4
And the sports pundits at ESPN want to compare this jerk nilesobek Aug 2014 #5
Wow. what a classy dude. nt cwydro Aug 2014 #6
F* johnny football madokie Aug 2014 #7
There's nothing that indicates the middle finger had anything to do with that mythology Aug 2014 #11
Uhhhh. No Boom Sound 416 Aug 2014 #12
Can not wait until he does get his block knocked off... a kennedy Aug 2014 #8
That little shit has a lot of growing up to do. Paladin Aug 2014 #9
He needs to grow up. This kid gldstwmn Aug 2014 #10

Response to bluestateguy (Original post)

nilesobek

(1,423 posts)
5. And the sports pundits at ESPN want to compare this jerk
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 04:55 PM
Aug 2014

with Russell Wilson! They are doing the same with Colin Kapernick, both haven't won a damn thing and don't even come close to being the football player Wilson is.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
7. F* johnny football
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 04:59 PM
Aug 2014

the finger is in response to the solidarity of the Redskins with the people of Ferguson MO.
He can kiss my white ass

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
11. There's nothing that indicates the middle finger had anything to do with that
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 06:22 PM
Aug 2014

The hands up gesture was done during pregame and the middle finger came late in the third quarter.

Johnny Manziel is seemingly an idiot based on lots of things, including flipping the other team off during a game, but you're leaping to conclusions that aren't supported by the evidence.

a kennedy

(29,672 posts)
8. Can not wait until he does get his block knocked off...
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 05:03 PM
Aug 2014

Try to patent the term "Johnny Football" indeed. Ugh.

Paladin

(28,264 posts)
9. That little shit has a lot of growing up to do.
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 05:07 PM
Aug 2014

If he wasn't multi-generation Texas oil money, I bet he would lose a little of that entitled arrogance.

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