Prelude to Greatness: The making of 'Johnny Football'

Some dreams are dashed. Some come true.

And some are dashed and replaced by something so amazing that … well, it couldn’t have been foreseen in the wildest of dreams.

Take Texas A&M’s football season, for instance. Who dreamed the Aggies would post 10 wins in their first season in the rugged Southeastern Conference, and with a remarkable freshman quarterback?

That freshman, Heisman Trophy-contender Johnny Manziel, has a way of making good things happen immediately.