Johnny Manziel's entire off-field life, from Texas A&M until now — when he has virtually no chance at getting back in the NFL — has played out in an intensely public manner.
In a normal world, an athlete's father sharing his pessimistic and dark feelings about his son's future through the media would be very odd, but Manziel hasn't lived a normal life since he burst on the scene as a redshirt freshman in college and won a Heisman Trophy.
So on the heels of a story that Manziel's lawyer accidentally texted the Associated Press with his concerns that Manziel could stay clean as an apparent part of a plea bargain in his domestic violence assault case, Manziel's father again had some startling words about his son.