The QB: The Making Of Modern Quarterbacks - Plot & Excerpts
OFF SCRIPT JULY 17, 2013. Three weeks before Texas A&M’s fall camp kicked off, Johnny Manziel had morphed into a de facto ESPN reality show. Rumors about exactly what happened at the Manning Passing Academy had become the hottest topic on the TV sports channels just as the Aggies star was about to walk into the biggest circus in college sports—SEC Media Days, a three-day event in Hoover, Alabama, at the Wynfrey Hotel—with over 1,200 reporters in tow. Making matters even messier, the story unfolded during the slowest news week of the season in sports and tied football’s resident “It” dude to the First Family of football, the Mannings. Beyond that, the story took on a life of its own in a farcical way, as if there was a congressional hearing on “Did or didn’t someone wake up another guy at a summer camp?” By this point of the off-season, the hype around Manziel had surpassed the hype around Tim Tebow at the peak of his media frenzy. Before Manziel was ushered around to a dozen different media platforms and interview sessions, he was brought to the main ESPN stage, where he was grilled by host Joe Tessitore for ten minutes.
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