Murray Wood: The Grey Cup is coming to Saskatchewan... again!
It used to be that the CFL didn't believe Saskatchewan could pull off the big game, but Murray Wood says now it can't ge...
Nothing was ever straightforward during Johnny Manziel’s relationship with the Canadian Football League.
Until Wednesday, that is, when the CFL announced it would not honour a contract between any of its nine teams and the infamous quarterback. The reason: Johnny Football had violated one of the stipulations in his contract with the Montreal Alouettes.
Immediately the speculation began: He had failed one of his regular, league-mandated drug tests, maybe on purpose so he could quickly join the new, struggling, Alliance of American Football. Although it saved the Alouettes from paying a $75,000 bonus they were scheduled to pay him Friday, it also cost them some talented players last season when they acquired him from the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
Even the long-term wooing of Manziel was complicated. Was he going to get another opportunity in the NFL? Was his lifestyle going to end his career, or his life? Could the Tiger-Cats entice him to Hamilton? There are still dozens of questions to ask about Manziel’s future. Only one has been answered: Johnny Football’s unimpressive, unpredictable and uninspired CFL career is over.
