Johnny Manziel EXCLUSIVE | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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Football, Sports

4.3 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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As 2025 SEC Kickoff starts Greg McElroy sits down with Heisman Trophy winner and Texas A&M icon Johnny Manziel. The two look back at SEC Media Days in 2013 when Manziel-mania took over and dominated almost every storyline. To this day it is still the most talked about media days in college football history. The two also discuss Manziel’s new podcast “Glory Daze”, how much he could have made in NIL, the Texas A&M vs Texas rivalry and so much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You've seen the headlines.
0:02.0	Heard the debates.
0:03.0	Some say the three-point ball has created a monotonous rhythm to the game.
0:06.0	Has the three-pointer ruined basketball?
0:09.0	And how did we get here?
0:12.0	The rise of the three-point shot can be partially traced to an eccentric Kansas genius named Martin Manley,
0:18.0	whose story didn't turn out quite the way he imagined.
0:22.1	I decided I wanted to have one of the most organized goodbyes in history, and I think I will be
0:27.6	successful.
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0:40.9	Yeah, I tell people this all the time when they ask me this.
0:43.9	I really feel like I would have taken a pay cut had I gone to the NFL.
0:49.0	I mean, that's really, really what it would have been.
1:00.0	Hello and welcome. it is always college football and we are so happy to be with you here today on july 14th we have an exciting week coming up here on always college
1:06.7	football we have the c c media days that will get underway today so much much to look forward to, so much to preview. We'll do plenty of that. I can promise you our SEC tier show will be coming out here very, very soon. So you don't want to miss it. Lock in, like, rate, subscribe, all the wonderful things that you guys have done to support the show on the podcast platforms, whatever podcast platform you use, and on the ESPN Cultural Bowl YouTube page.
1:31.6	Today we're going to visit with Johnny Mansell.
1:33.2	And it's ironic that as we sit here preparing for SEC Media Days,
1:38.7	we have Johnny Mansell joining the show because SEC Media Day's popularity might have hit
1:43.2	its peak in 2013.
1:46.1	That was when Johnny Mansell arrived in Hoover to address the media for the very first time after
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