I've been on record saying that Johnny Manziel would never turn up in the AAF due to either the lower salary he would earn, or a team there wouldn't want to take him on due to his off-field issues, which recently led to him being turfed by the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL. Well, don't I look stupid right now, as Manziel has just signed with the Memphis Express of the AAF.
I honestly don't understand what the AAF sees in this man, as he's run afoul of the two major professional leagues on this continent already. Look, I get that attendance in the AAF isn't where they want it to be as of yet, but from a football standpoint, this union doesn't make a lot of sense. Sooner or later, Manziel is going to do something off the field, or violate some kind of league protocol that will end up getting him suspended (or banned), and he'll be back where he started for the millionth time. I mean, what's going to happen then? Is he going to end up in the (ugh!) Arena League?
Manziel didn't have as much pressure on him in the CFL that he did when he played in the NFL. Had he really tried to learn the Canadian game, improve himself, and stay out of trouble, he probably would still be in the league preparing for his second full season. Hell, it would have been conceivable that he could help take a team into the playoffs, and possibly to a Grey Cup in time. But, as we all saw, Johnny Manziel was simply being Johnny Manziel, and his time up here in the Great White North came to an abrupt end.
Half the AAF season is already over, and Memphis has been going nowhere, and fast. I don't see him making much of a difference on a team with swiss cheese for defence, and a pathetic offence to boot. He'll bomb out of the AAF just like he did in the NFL and CFL. And.....it doesn't help that he'll be playing for coach Mike Singletary, a defence-minded coach that doesn't take any crap from anyone, ever. This could end up being really interesting, for the wrong reasons.
Bye bye, Johnny.
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