Johnny Football. It’s one of the great nicknames in college football history. It’s simple. It flows off the tongue. It’s cool. Apparently, Johnny Manziel is ready to kick the nickname to the curb, at least that’s how it sounded when he appeared on The Dan Patrick Show this morning.
Manziel started the interview responding to Dan Patrick’s introduction to tell him he’s actually been going by “John” and Patrick called him “the artist formerly known as Johnny Manziel” before commenting that Manziel may be growing up, to which Manziel responded “getting there.”
It would seem John Manziel wants the world to know he is putting his off-the-field problems behind him.