Johnny Football Throws A Water Bottle At A Fan Who Wouldn't Stop Asking For His Autograph At Byron Nelson Classic

ESPN - Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel threw a water bottle at a badgering fan Saturday at the AT&T Byron Nelson golf tournament in an incident that was dismissed as “fairly straightforward” by a police spokesman in Irving, Texas. Irving public information officer James McLellan told ESPN on Sunday that no charges were filed, and there was no evidence that Manziel was “intoxicated or even had been drinking.” The incident took place in the pool area at the Four Seasons Hotel, which is part of the golf course property, McLellan said. “There was a kid — I’ll call him a kid, he was 18 — at the pool area,” McLellan told ESPN on Sunday. “The kid had been asking [Manziel] for a couple hours for his autograph, and he wouldn’t give it to him.”That turned into badgering on the kid’s part, and it reached the point where Johnny Manziel threw a bottle of water at the kid. I don’t know if it hit him. I guess I would say that ramped it up a bit.” McLellan said the 32-ounce water bottle Manziel threw was about three-quarters full. A witness told police that the bottle hit a brick wall.A friend of Manziel’s then stepped between him and the 18-year-old and pushed him. A close friend of Manziel who was one of eight people with his group told ESPN that the quarterback became frustrated when a picture-seeking fan in a Texas A&M polo consistently heckled and grabbed the quarterback’s arm in the course area.As Manziel left the golf course, the fan yelled, “good luck never starting in the NFL,” the friend said. Manziel said “What?” and threw the bottle, which the friend claimed was empty, toward the ground as his friends told him to ignore the heckler. The fan was about 20 yards away and Manziel threw the bottle in the fan’s direction but not close to his body and more like a football spike, said the friend, who remembered the fan yelling, “Good throw, Johnny.” Police were in the area and asked Manziel’s camp some questions about what had happened, the friend said. “There was no malicious intent. We separated the situation,” said the friend, who spoke with the cops along with Manziel. “We told the cops, ‘Will you please make sure there’s distance between us?'” Among the fan’s insults to Manziel, the friend said, was “Ryan Tannehill is way better than you.”

Well you can take Johnny Football out of rehab but you can’t take the rehab out of Johnny Manziel. Listen I’m a Johnny Football guy. Everybody knows that. But either Johnny Football has the WORST fans in the world or he is the worst at dealing with his fans. Like I can’t remember another guy who is consistently getting into altercations with guys who like him like this. First it was the dude who tried to hug him in an elevator (who was later arrested for slapping two chicks when they wouldn’t have a threesome) and now this kid. Some teenage punk wearing a Texas A+M shirt hounding him for an autograph. What is going on here? All athletes must have to deal with this shit. Why does Football keep needing to get the cops involved? Whoever is in charge of his entourage needs to be fired.

PS – I’m not sure how Manziel’s

“I want to be left alone” thing plays when you go to the Byron Nelson.   I’m not saying he shouldn’t go out but it’s tough to expect privacy there.   Either way the kid who was hounding him is clearly a loser.   How many times does Johnny have to say he doesn’t want to take a picture with you?  He only had to tell me 7 times before I got the hint and you didn’t see me start bad mouthing him that Tannehill was better.  I’m still a Johnny Football guy.  He’s just not that into me.