A Johnny Manziel-Terrell Owens crew up? Sure.
Manziel — the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner and first-round bust — made his season debut Saturday for the Fan Managed Soccer on the Zappers, a crew that options Owens, a Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer.
Although the Zappers had been blown out, 44-6, by the Glacier Boyz, Owens and Manziel attached for the one landing for his or her crew.
Manziel, 29, mentioned earlier than the sport that he was excited to be enjoying with the 48-year-old Owens, who additionally caught a landing in his first recreation final week.
“[Owens] appears to be like precisely the identical as he does 5, 15 years in the past,” Manziel instructed the Related Press’ Rob Maadi earlier than the sport. “The man’s a legend.”
As for Manziel, he appears extra mature at this stage of his life.
“I discovered far more via the downfall than I ever did via the rise on the way in which up,” Manziel instructed the AP earlier than the sport. “So, I look again and for some time checked out my life in a method that I mirrored and form of had remorse on. And I don’t really feel that method anymore about the way in which my story went. I obtained a tremendous alternative to go to Texas A&M, to get drafted within the NFL. And, that profession didn’t go the way in which precisely I needed to, however I discovered rather a lot about life via that journey up and thru that journey down.
“I’m very grateful for the place I’m at in my life proper now, and I can look again and say I’m at peace utterly with all of my soccer profession. For me, it was enjoyable. I obtained to dwell a tremendous journey within the recreation of soccer. It launched me to a quite a few quantity of individuals everywhere in the world. So, I’m grateful for my trip and proceed to try to be concerned within the recreation in a roundabout way, form or kind.”
Manziel performed within the Canadian Soccer League and the Alliance of American Soccer in 2018-19 earlier than becoming a member of the Zappers final 12 months. He began eight video games for the Browns, going 2-6 with seven landing passes and 7 interceptions in 2014-15.
“I do know the errors I made the primary time and I do know that I don’t actually wish to be a repeater of these errors,” Manziel mentioned, referring to his off-field points. “So for me, I’ve discovered rather a lot. Now, did you really study should you’re not implementing completely different change in your life transferring ahead? No, you didn’t actually study something.
“So for me, rather a lot about the way in which that I carry myself now, my perspective about life and my outlook on life, I really feel like I ooze off on to different folks. It’s actually your life to dwell and your life solely. And , I dwell mine every single day in a method that I wish to that makes me blissful and I really feel like I give that aura off in my in my on a regular basis encounters.”
As for the Fan Managed Soccer League, it permits followers to name offensive performs and vote on guidelines. Marshawn Lynch, Austin Ekeler, Richard Sherman and Dalvin Cook dinner personal groups within the league
And followers of the league obtained to see these two former big-name NFL stars of the previous create a second.
— with AP
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