They're Making Me Go To Rehab

Bayless threw shit at the wall and some of it stuck, whoop dee fucking doo. And it certainly took some kind of wizard to guess that Manziel was getting fucked up on a regular basis. Big deal.

 

NFL quarterbacks can't afford to be average 22-year-olds.

 

Average 22-year-olds don't act like Johnny Manziel or Lindsay Lohan.

 

Oh, I think there's a big difference between a psychological need to be the life of the party at all times, and a true alcohol dependent who needs an eye-opener every morning, for example. My guess is that Johnny Manziel doesn't do a lot of drinking alone. I could be wrong.

 

Unfortunately, we give people credit for throwing shit at the wall and having some of it stick all the time at SJ.com. The difference here is many of us just don't like Bayless.

 

Someone may not need an eye-opener in the morning or a drink during the day and still be an alcoholic.

 

I know. That's why I specifically included "for example" in that sentence. I definitely didn't intend it as an exhaustive list of symptoms.

Look, it's possible that he's an alcoholic. I don't know enough to make that evaluation, obviously. There was a report out recently, based on recent scientific research, I believe, that most binge drinkers - even frequent binge drinkers - are not actually alcoholics. The old joke is, "I could stop tomorrow." But a lot of people can, I think, because it's not necessarily about the alcohol.

 

There have been points in my life where I'm sure I would have qualified as an alcoholic based on the clinical description. But as Dick says, it was all based on the group setting.

However, again, this is not about alcohol. He has been photographed with a rolled-up dollar bill. That isn't for sipping whiskey.

 

And vice versa, right?

 

Comparing binge drinking to alcoholism is like comparing someone who just ate a big dinner to a morbidly obese person.

 

I know.

That's what I'm saying.