Johnny Manziel is becoming a legend both on and off the college football field. Whatever you’re in to: booze, women, marijuna, gambling, wearing crazy outfits, Manziel has been linked to it online. And there are Manziel pictures to prove it.
Well, maybe not this time. Manziel, the first freshman Heisman winner in college football history says the picture of him kissing his Heisman and holding a blunt is a fake (photoshopped).
From Lost Lettermen:
Saturday happened to be 4/20, and if a soon-to-be widely circulated photograph is to believed, at one point during the night the stiff-armed statue held a blunt in its outstretched hand.
Manziel vehemently said on Twitter that this was a phony pic and that people are out to get him. I will say this- Manziel has been in the public eye for so long now, and he’s had many “life lessons” already about how all of our private lives are subject to becoming public quite easily these days (Twitter, Facebook, FlipShare, everyone having a phone that shoots pictures and video). He would have to be pretty naive and maybe even Ryan Lochte level DUMB, in order to let something like this happen; especially by now.
So I actually think his claims of innocence are true on this one.
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