Johnny Manziel has not played in the NFL since 2015, but he still wants to be Johnny Football. It’s not in the NFL, however, Manziel has signed yet another football contract. This time it is with a league that you have likely never heard of. Manziel told ESPN’s Kevin Seifert this week that he has signed with a startup league called Fan Controlled Football. Johnny Manziel says he connected with FCF co-founder and CEO Sohrob Farudi through comedian Bob Menery, who is a mutual friend.
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Johnny Manziel has agreed to resume his playing career with a startup league called Fan Controlled Football, he told @SeifertESPN: https://t.co/AmBZUN4fFP pic.twitter.com/tAzpKwe3Rs
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) December 30, 2020
Fan Controlled Football may sound like some crazy COVID protocol league, but it is actually quite different. The league is scheduled to begin play in February and will feature 7-on-7 games where fans can set rosters, call plays and interact in a variety of ways. Johnny Manziel spoke out about how his playing career in FCF will be different than it was in his time in the NFL.
“It’s going to be very fan-oriented and something I could get behind without being extremely, extremely, extremely serious, the way that my football career has been in the past,” Manziel said in the interview with Seifert.
Johnny Manziel’s football career trajectory has been interesting, to say the least. Manziel briefly played in the Alliance of American Football last year before the league went under. Now he has been relegated to a league that almost nobody has even heard of. He may not want to take it very seriously, but Johnny Manziel still wants football to be a part of his persona.
It will be interesting to see what impact a guy like Manziel has on a league like FCF. It is virtually unheard of at this point, but maybe it will catch on thanks to Johnny football. Not likely, but we will see.
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