The Johnny Manziel Netflix documentary Untold: Johnny Football has become one of the hot new titles released on the streaming service. But while 98.5 The Sports Hub host Marc Bertrand said he was entertained watching the doc, he took all that was presented with a grain of salt.
On Monday, Bertrand’s Zolak & Bertrand co-host Scott Zolak said he really liked the documentary. He liked that it told a story that was corroborated by virtually everyone interviewed.
Zolak added that people bought the story that Manziel came from money, when in actuality his parents didn’t have a ton of money. He made his money from doing card shows signing autographs.
Bertrand felt like the documentary was a bit disingenuous, and Manziel’s former Texas A&M coach Kliff Kingsbury came off looking the worst.
“I think the biggest fraud going is Kliff Kingsbury, and he exposed himself in the documentary in yet another way, which is to admit that he stopped coaching Johnny Manziel after Week 1 of that first season,” he said. “That Manziel would be better by letting him just play backyard football. OK, so that wasn’t Kliff Kingsbury’s doing. All the praise that Kliff Kingsbury got at Texas Tech was, ‘Oh, guess what, Patrick Mahomes is the man.'”
“He sucks. That guy is a fraud. He’s not any good,” Bertrand added. “And not only that, does he understand how big of a dirtbag he sounds like when it’s like, ‘Yeah, we knew Johnny was a total lunatic and couldn’t keep it together. But we knew he’d show up on gameday.'”
Bertrand went on to say that ultimately the whole story felt completely one-sided.
“It was just Johnny Manziel telling his story,” he said. “This is not like some highly accurate account of everything that went on. This is Johnny’s version of what went on.”
Johnny Football is the first of a new season of Untold documentaries for Netflix.
