A model girlfriend and in trouble with the law, already. Yup. It´s exactly the cred you need when you want to be a football star.
Just call me cynical when it comes to "sports stars".

The fight he was involved in stemmed from an altercation his friend started. His friend hurled an unfortunate racial slur at a passer by who wanted to fight. Manziel tried to intervene. When the passer by attacked him he responded. His only transgression was the fake ID which we all know is very rare on a college campus.

He´s too short for the pro´s. He´s not accurate enough and he doesn´t read defenses well enough. Great college QB´s don´t always make it in the NFL.

I had been rooting for Manti Te´o.

#3, not me I want Ohio State to get one more before Notre Dame does.

However, now I have to worry about ´´Johnny Football´s´´ getting a second one. I´m not sure I want even another Ohio State guy to get two of them. Archie was just so special.

Congratulations to Johnny Football..... well deserved... and he will make the SEC look good for several more years....

This award to this spring chicken is nothing but farce! SEC is the worst mob in college football

Johnny Manziel presented a fake ID to the police officer at the scene of the altercation, not to some bar bouncer. He had another fake ID in his wallet. He was also charged with disorderly conduct. Not the worse conduct by a, ahem, 20 year old college freshmen but not showing good judgment and integrity. But he got the Heisman. I wanted Manti too.

Character means "zip" for SEC as well as Those voters the trophy!

Jiggly boobs gets the Heisman! Yay!

Te´o should have been no where near NYC. Had it not been for the money the ND football booster put, he would not have been. He is a freshman and should learn to read defenses

Johnny is nothing but another Cam Newton in the making. For a maroon who gets vaulted up despite losing two big games against LSU and Florida in SEC is nothing but a joke

Nimby...I realize it´s been a difficult year in the Big/PAC -10/12 or where it is that you reside, but only a moron would bad mouth the best football in the Country -the SEC. Suggest you back away from the pipe, boyo.

Wow! You people are a bunch of sad cynics! First, you´ve forgotten what it was like to be young and do stupid things - you are amazingly perfect.

Second, you seem to not be able to appreciate a young man´s incredible physical feat for one season - and let´s face it, in the world of football whether college or pro, life in the sport can come to an abrupt end. In any contact sport it can come to an abrupt and often sad, even tragic end.

So, what´s your problem? Can´t appreciate talent? Have to dig deep and find the down side in all things posted? Think you are pithy with your cynical comments?

Not all commentators on this blog are like you - but those like you have really, really hurt this blog. There is nothing you have to say that truly furthers a conversation to make it enlightening, to make it genuinely learned and worthwhile. You simply denigrate. No wonder the conservative movement has stalled out. You´ve become as despicable and predictable as the liberals.

Those are lousy laurels to rest upon.

I have enjoyed watching this talented young man play in the SEC this year. Best conference in football, just hope the Hogs can make a comeback. Whoo pig

Thanks #13...reading through and thinking, "wow, no matter who gets what anywhere, somebody´s there to hate it". The enemy is in DC, not A&M.

His girlfriend Sarah Savage is way good looking. I hate soon to be rich football players!... : )

He´s a great talent and will be a legendary College Quarterback. The Pros are a different and less enjoyable game. He started the year as a thrower with a lot of athletic skills but developed into the beginnings of a very good passer. The TD passes to Swope versus Ole Miss and Kennedy versus Alabama he could not make in September.

Early in the year when he scrambled it was a pure run. At the end of the year, it was an opportunity to sort through the chaos he created in the defense by going through his progressions, hence the TD to Swope versus Alabama. I have no idea if he will be a good Pro but in College Football it will be one wild ride barring injury.

He not only broke Newton´s yardage record for a season (Newton did it in 14 games not 12 like JM), but also Archie Manning´s 40+ year old record for a game ----- TWICE.

Just enjoy the fun and feel glad that you are getting to see it. It´s sports. It´s a game.I thank my lucky stars for being able to watch Willie Mays from his rookie year in 1951 till being there at Cooperstown the day he was inducted. What a ride!

Semper Fi

The title is misleading - how is he set to make millions? He is not allowed to be compensated while a college athlete.

It will be fun to watch Johnny the next three years. He might grow another inch or two - my son grew between the ages of 18 and 21.

I watched the Heisman show and was impressed with all three candidates. I wish them all well.

Manti is a senior and this was his last chance to get a Heisman. This was Johnny´s first chance, but probably not his last, so that´s why I felt Manti deserved it this year. While growing up in Hawaii, he also became an Eagle Scout. Only a small percentage of boys go all the way in Boy Scouts to make Eagle. It says a lot about his character, strength and determination. My oldest (of 3 sons and 1 daughter) made it to Eagle and that will forever be on his resume´. Johnny deserved the Heisman, but so did Manti.

Over the past six months I have seen hateful posts here on Lucianne to rival the ugliness that used to appear regularly on DU.

Sadly.

Thank you, #12 & #13. Johnny Manziel was fun to watch this year and had a great game against Alabama (Goliath). Just like America, this site is down but not out. Again, just like America, the only way this site can be destroyed is from within. Hopefully, Lucianne can find someone who loves this site to police it.

Congrats to Johnny Football. Congrats to Texas A+M, the best Catholic University in the country!

Was at the A&M-Bama game. Manziel played a career game that day, just made every throw perfectly and never made a mistake. He deserved the Heisman for that performance.

I look forward to seeing Manziel again in College Station when Bama and A&M open the 2013 season.

Good kid, great QB, and a deserving recipient.

Oh, and nimby is FOS.