Johnny Football Has One Hell Of A Family Tree

There's something infuriating about Deadspin: one minute they're in some petty fight, the next they do brilliant things like this. After pouring through court records, biographies, and newspaper archives, they've compiled a Manziel family history that makes Johnny Football's actions look less surprising. Even the family's oil business has a story, starting in the backyard of a black church after Johnny's great-grandpa "ran the negroes down in his flivver until all 40 would permit him to drill." Among his family's long laundry list of incidents are cocaine trafficking, conspiracy in a murder case, counterfeiting, rumors of ties to the Dixie Mafia, and even cockfighting. With Bobby Joe owning as many as 1,200 game-birds and a private plane to take them to matches, his son Norman Paul (Johnny's grandfather) took over, and became your 1983 Cockfighting World Champion. They've even got their own breed named after them: the Manziel Greys.
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