FOX Sports columnist compares Johnny Manziel to ‘modern-day Rosa Parks’
By Josh Sanchez
In perhaps the worst sports column (ever) of the year, FOX Sports’ Jen Floyd Engel decided to spew some ridiculously absurd garbage into the Internet on Friday morning with her opinion that Johnny Manziel is a “modern-day Rosa Parks.” Seriously, you won’t believe this crap.
Just check it out for your own eyes:
"Once upon a time in this country, there were ugly, racist, tyrannical rules dictating where a black person could sit on a bus. There were all kinds of these laws, actually, created and defended by the racists who benefited from them.What kick-started change was an average, everyday woman named Rosa Parks, who had grown tired of being tired. Hers was not the first protest, nor was it particularly the best. It was merely the tipping point for many Americans long since tired of these immoral laws.On a much less historically significant scale, so it is with Johnny Football — and no, this is not intended in any way to compare the vast evil of Jim Crow to an incompetent NCAA investigation, or to slings from TV commentators."
Okay, so this isn’t supposed to compare Rosa Parks and Johnny Manziel, but you decided to tweet a link to your article with the tag line, “My latest column on Johnny Manziel as a tipping pt for change and modern-day Rosa Parks.”
Not only is it absurd to connect a historical figure in the civil rights movement to an immature kid that is partying and knowingly breaking rules, how can you possibly say that Manziel not making a statement?
I sure as hell am not going to go around calling Rosa Parks “Rosie Bus” from here on out and you cannot convince me that Manziel is some revolutionary hero that is leading a movement to correct all that is wrong with the NCAA. For someone to even attempt to do that is insulting to our intelligence and it’s a shame that there is a place for that type of content to be published.
When you add in the fact that this is the same columnist who called Terrelle Pryor a “terrorist” for selling memorabilia for tattoos, how can you take her seriously?
How is Pryor such a monster for what he did, when Manziel is accused of doing practically the same thing — taking advantage of his celebrity for financial gain. What is the difference? How is one man a monster and one man a hero? You also consider that Engel clearly has no knowledge of how Rosa Parks helped spark the civil rights movement and it is clear that she is going just for shock factor or that she has a different agenda and her opinion is relative to the color of the player’s skin.
It’s tough to pull out the race card, but her double-standard makes you wonder.
All-in-all, Engel just put together an awful column and she will need to live with the backlash that comes of it. Let’s just hope that she can refrain from publishing the same kind of nonsensical crap moving forward.
It would be for the betterment of mankind. Perhaps she could be a revolutionary hero if she’d just put down the pen and step away from the keyboard.