Quick Hits 8/19: "Fuck You And Fuck Him Too"

• Well, suffice it to say that Johnny Football showed his true self last night.  He flipped off the Washington bench at one point in the pre-season game.  That will certainly cost him what appears to be $11,025 out of his first game check...
• Boomer Esiason is no fan of Johnny Football.

On his show on WFAN, Boomer was not kind to the Heisman fraud:


""His ass would be driven into the ground. Because I’m telling you, other teams hate this guy. Hate him," said Esiason. "I’m telling you, those linebackers for the Pittsburgh Steelers are just praying to God that (Manziel) plays in Week 1. And if I were (Cleveland head coach) Mike Pettine, I would have to have my head examined to put that kid on the field.""


Mr. Esiason, let me be straight with you:  The next legitimate sporting event John Manziel participates in will be the first in a very long time.  Manziel is a massive bust waiting to happen, except he's the current ESPN Poster Child of Football (the only damn reason he sniffed the Heisman two years ago).


He will be the most protected man in the NFL, else he will literally be carted out of the league within one season.  I could easily see him deliberately crippled out of the sport within one season.

• Chris Kluwe and the Minnesota Vikings have settled out of court on Kluwe's lawsuit.  Donations over the next five years to LGBT charities by the Vikings were agreed to.  Kluwe, true to his word, didn't seek any money of his own, but the initial donation appears to be at least $100,000.
• In other lawsuit news, and in a far-longer-standing case:  Todd Bertuzzi will pay for the end of Steve Moore's career in one of the worst incidents in the history of hockey.  Terms undisclosed on the settlement, but the case was about to go to trial.  Bertuzzi, in one of the worst acts in sports, is still technically in the NHL, unsigned free-agent after the last five seasons with the Red Wings.
• The NFL is actually going to CHARGE it's top Super Bowl halftime act for the privilege, according to the Wall Street Journal.  (But that's a paywall site, so you get the San Francisco Chronicle webpage on it instead.)  Top three choices apparently are Katy Perry, Rihanna, and Coldplay, and all have been asked to give the NFL some of their post-SB tour money to have the privilege.