My Take on Johnny Football
(Take It or Leave It...)

I personally loved Johnny Football last year.  He was a tad bit "bad boy," an image that TAMU desperately needed.  I would have loved to party with him when I was a nineteen-year-old.  I would have laughed at his fake i.d.  He would have definitely been someone who I would have hung out with when I was a student there umpteen million years ago. I personally like "bad boys," and he fit the bill!


Then, he showed up at the Rice game.  I understand that he is twenty years old.  I totally get the fact that he is being pursued by so many people who wish to make money off of his name.  I understand that he was being taunted by players and fans....BUT when I saw him take a shoulder to his coach, that is when my opinion of Johnny Football turned from admiration for a "bad boy" at TAMU to "Who the hell is your daddy?"  I have a twenty year old son.  He is not a Johnny Football. He is an Average Joe who attends college at Oklahoma State University.  He makes his grades; he treats adults with respect; he is a gentleman when it comes to girls; he respects authority.  If I, or his daddy, ever saw him shoulder-butt an adult, we would take him off that field in force.  I personally could take him out with a shoe, and I have done it on one occasion.  DO NOT TELL ME THAT THIS BOY HAS NEVER DONE THIS TYPE OF THING BEFORE.  You do not get to be twenty-years-old and suddenly develop lack of respect for authority.  If you are a proud Texas Aggie who defends this type of behavior...well, I have to question your integrity.  Don't get me wrong.  I am a two-percenter from long ago.  I graduated for Texas A&M, and I am very proud of the level of academics that I received, but I can never claim to be an Aggie.   I wish I could say that it was something like this that changed my perspective, but I would be lying  I never played into the Aggie mantra.  It simply wasn't who I was.  I should have graduated from Ole Miss or Alabama.  I am a true, old-school SEC girl.


Now...as for Johnny's next move.  Let's hope that Johnny Football cleans it up for the Bama game.  I witnessed Johnny's force last year when I was in Tuscaloosa.  I hope that he doesn't bring his A game next week....But, if he does...I hope that he brings his class with him...Southern class. When you join the SEC, you take on the TRUE South. Johnny has the chance to pull off a monumental win next week...But without some Southern class, it is for naught!