We interrupt this Yankees blog for a column-writing quiz ...

Sorry for the non-Yankees related post, but sometimes we need a distraction to take our minds off a disaster.

So, it's time for today's column-writing quiz (otherwise known as "what the fuck was this person drinking/smoking/snorting when they wrote this?")

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to read the following lead two paragraphs from columnist Jen Floyd Engel, and then guess the topic.


Once upon a time in this country, there were ugly, racist, tyrannical rules dictating where a black person could sit on a bus. There were all kinds of these laws, actually, created and defended by the racists who benefited from them.

What kick-started change was an average, everyday woman named Rosa Parks, who had grown tired of being tired. Hers was not the first protest, nor was it particularly the best. It was merely the tipping point for many Americans long since tired of these immoral laws.


Give up? Click below to find out the answer ....



Johnny Manziel.

Yep, Johnny Football. Engel is a columnist for the FoxSports website. You can read the column, in all it's ridiculous, jaw-dropping glory, here.

Update: It gets better. Deadspin dug up a piece she wrote about Terrelle Pryor a couple years back. So, if Manziel is Rosa Parks, who is Pryor? Maybe MLK? Nelson Mandela?

Nope Pryor is a terrorist!

(Roger Goodell) did not play enforcer for the NCAA. Nor did he overstep his bounds or act as a capricious holy roller, as many have implied. In this increasingly ugly and infinitely cynical time in college football, he took a stand. Roger sent a clear message that the NFL will no longer be a safe harbor for college football terrorists.

... Whatever your argument against suspending Pryor — the rules are arcane and hypocritical, athletes should be paid, the NCAA is fraudulent and obsolete — none justifies his wanton disregard for his teammates and his school or entitles him to walk away without being nicked by a mess of his creation.

Please also stop with the “he’s a catalyst for change” meme.

Real change begins with a guy willing to sacrifice for a larger principle, the guy standing in front of the tank at Tiananmen Square, not a guy trying to get the Chinese word for “Buckeye” tattooed onto his bicep for free.

No revolution ever began with “Free tattoos” as a battle cry. Or “Show me the money,” as in Reggie Bush’s case, or “Hey, Nevin, pass me a stripper,” as in the allegations against The Miami 15.

So, Johnny Manziel shows wanton disregard for his teammates and school and is Rosa Parks. Terrell Pryor shows wanton disregard for his teammates and school and is a terrorist.

Just checking.