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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.