Deion Sanders says Johnny Manziel has “ghetto tendencies”

[KamaAina]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/03/deion-sanders-says-johnny-manziel-has-ghetto-tendencies/

But according to Hall of Fame cornerback and NFL Network analyst Deion Sanders, Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel has an quality that crosses such pre-conceived barriers....

“I love Johnny Football,” Sanders said. “See, the reason people won’t accept Johnny Football is because Johnny Football has ghetto tendencies. I love Johnny Football.”

Asked to clarify what “ghetto tendencies” were, Sanders continued: “Because he was successful, he made it, and he let you all know he made it, and he was cocky, he was flamboyant, and he let you know.”...

There are many troubling elements to the discussion of the racial realities of quarterback profiling. But Sanders’ apparent equation of “ghetto” with “black,” is frankly insulting.

[rocktivity]

1. No, the real problem is that Deion is equating Manziel, "ghetto tendencies"

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and HIS OWN legacy of cockiness and flamboyance.

...(Interviewer Roland) Martin then made a reference to Manziel being “a white Prime Time,” and Sanders laughed. “Thank you. And I love him. I love him,” Sanders said...

That's not racism, that's ego tripping.


rocktivity

[TBF]

2. Johnny Football is a spoiled child

who will likely flame out in the NFL. Maybe other egomaniacs love him but just as many find him obnoxious and over-rated.

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Johnny Manziel's family is loaded (the oil business, natch). . .

. . .and that spoiled brat hasn't been down a path of life that can't be traveled by chauffeured limousine.

Unlike Deion and his background. Sanders should know better.