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June 27, 2014High Pressure, Home Cooking
June 27, 2014
Despite the fact that many many players who have far more experience and success in the NFL are commenting that Johnny Manziel is going about his business the wrong way, he stands defiant. Beat reporters were on hand with NFL rookies as they go through their rookie symposium in town this week.
Johnny Manziel: "I'm not going to change for anybody" "I'm going to enjoy my time off"
— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) June 27, 2014
Manziel: I am going to enjoy my time off. I work very hard at my job which doesn't get reported or won't get reported.
— Zac Jackson (@AkronJackson) June 27, 2014
Johnny Manziel on the money phone video: "I'm not going to address something that's in the past"
— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) June 27, 2014
Manziel: Just my weekends aren't what I'm doing with my life.That's 2 days. Nothing I'm doing on the weekends affects my job.
— Zac Jackson (@AkronJackson) June 27, 2014
Again, I wanted Johnny Manziel on this football team because I thought he was the best quarterback in the draft based on his abilities. I knew there would be some other parts of the Manziel experience that might be an issue, but I’m surprised just how often he appears to be partying in an epic fashion.
Again, I hear about all the hard work he does on the field. I don’t think he needs to spend every waking moment wrapped up in a playbook. And maybe it is just a publicity problem and Johnny Manziel is just more in the public eye. But the more and more evidence we get including pictures of him drinking personal bottles of champagne and slurring into fake phones made of cash, it’s hard to think what he’s doing can be justified as just making the most of his time off as he gets away from the game.
It’s not the end of the world. He’s not the devil. Maybe those of you who say I’m out of touch are actually right and he’s just growing up under a spotlight. It’s just that I think we can all agree that it’s not exactly as we’d draw it up for the guy we want to lead our favorite football team to success sometime in the near future.
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“An ad hominem (Latin for “to the man” or “to the person”[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument.”
I provided an example of how a person, me, was able to drink, quite heavily at times while also ingesting other entertaining substances, at the age of 21 and beyond, and still enjoy a successful career; a career so successful in fact that I was able to comfortably retire at the age of 47 with more money (a quantifiable measure of success) than I will ever be able to spend.
The ad hom against that argument was that since I had not won a Superbowl my point was invalid. Winning a Super Bowl is irrelevant to the point I made (i.e., ad hom) which is that drinking and failure are not synonymous.