The fan-controlled young league has signed a Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL first-round national team.
Not Ricky Williams. Someone from school in Texas.
Johnny Manziel is back.
ESPN reported Wednesday that former Texas A star
“The more I heard about what it was going to be, the more I felt it was going to be something really fun,” Manziel said. “It’s going to be very fan-oriented and anything I can just without being amazing, incredibly incredibly serious, as has my football career in the past. “
Manziel, 28, has partnered with CWF co-founder and CEO Sohrob Farudi, a mutual friend.
“Life gives you opportunities to do anything you’d still like to do if it were otherwise,” Manziel said. “It has a good chance of being just a smart moment while focusing on football. to allow the other people [who] sign up for this league to be who they are and laugh at it and be a little freer. of what football is.
“That’s what attracted me. They don’t need me to replace who I am or anything else. They need to pass out, put on a smart product and laugh with it. “
Earlier, Touchdown Wire reported that Ricky Williams and Brian Urlacher had expressed interest in betting on the league, which will have a four- and six-game season when it begins on February 13.
2012 Heisman Trophy winner in Texas A
When asked where he was now on a non-public level, Manziel told ESPN:
“I wake up with a smile on my face much more than in the past, when other people would have said I had it all. It’s funny how life works sometimes. You have it all and you can get upset, and when you have a lot less, you can be much happier.
“I’m at a time in my life when I’m 28 and I’m still researching to find out what I’m doing to move forward and verify to recreate an identity, and that’s what last year for me. “