Johnny Manziel Makes Decision on Fan Controlled Football League

Johnny Football is still alive and well.

But obviously Johnny isn’t playing in the big leagues anymore. These days he’s playing for the Fan Controlled Football league.

Johnny Manziel is returning for the second season of a professional league known as Fan Controlled Football, he told ESPN.

Manziel told ESPN that his formal football career “in my eyes is over” but that the FCF is something “I wanted to do for fun.”

“This is a way to go out and compete and have fun on a way smaller scale,” Manziel said. “I don’t have the drive to play football at a high level anymore. I don’t have a drive to be the best football player anymore that I used to have in my life, and I’m OK with that. I’ve come to terms with what my football career was, and what it is, and now I’m trying to figure out how I can stay entangled in the game, but from a different position.

“[FCF] is not trying to build this on my back and make me be the main focus point. I feel like I’m simply there to help bring a little bit of magic and a little bit of entertainment, but on a way different scale than the past.”

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Manziel doesn’t feel any pressure to carry the league, as he’s pretty much the biggest name in the league.

“[FCF] is not trying to build this on my back and make me be the main focus point,” he explained. “I feel like I’m simply there to help bring a little bit of magic and a little bit of entertainment, but on a way different scale than the past.”

Manziel, a former Heisman Trophy winner, spent only two years in the NFL being he crashed and burned.

This league seems much more his speed.

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