Johnny Manziel's great-uncle goes on Facebook to explain infamous tweet

Johnny "Football" Manziel is the most talked about athlete in college sports today. When he coughs, people write about it, and when he sends out an angry tweet insisting that he is fed up with College Station, the sporting world comes to a stand still.

Manziel has come under heavy fire for his now infamous tweet, so much so that members of his family are speaking up.

His great-uncle Ron Parks (The uncle of Manziel's mother Michelle) recently took to Facebook to explain the full details surrounding Manziel's public frustration with College Station.

The entire post is nearly 600 words in length, so we've picked out the most poignant paragraphs. You can find the full post on the "Johnny 'Football' Manziel for Heisman" Facebook page.

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"What Johnny tweeted about leaving College Station must be seen in context, as is true with anything that anyone says, and I am going to give y'all some context. I know we all want to like Johnny and truthfully there isn't much about him not to like, but media will do what they do best and that is ride a good horse into the ground. "

"Here is the short version...Johnny was away on a fishing trip in Port Aransas with some other football buddies and happened to be talking on the phone with one of his roommates when there comes a knock on their front door. The roommate who was about to go to bed, asks Johnny, who is in Port Aransas, if he is expecting anyone to stop by (at 12:30 AM). Yes, 12:30 AM! Johnny replies with a "no" while the roomy goes to look out the window and sees that a police car is parked pout front. He opens the door to, "we have been getting reports about the car parked in front of the house against traffic flow...and by the way the tint is to dark as well." (loose interpretation). Did I mention it was 12:30 AM???"

"Johnny explains that there is nothing he can do until he gets home tomorrow with the keys and asks what the officer is going to do. The officer left a ticket on his which Johnny tweeted the tweet that went around the world surmising many things to which were a result of something taken completely out of context."

"Johnny loves A&M and the football coaches and athletic staff love Johnny. Are the A&M powers upset over this? Their take is that if this is the worst that comes out of the media's coverage in the off big is good (loosely interpreted). They know the truth, the family and friends know the truth and now you know the truth. The haters will just keep feeding and the media will beat that dead horse until there's nothing left I'm sure."

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The post is rather long (It includes Darius Rucker lyrics), but it explains that Manziel's frustrated tweet was in response to a parking ticket.

Yes, a parking ticket.

We have all had our fair share of troubles with parking enforcement, but bad enough that a change in scenery is warranted?

The saga of "Johnny Football" continues.

(H/T Good Bull Hunting)

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