“I Was a Lost Kid”: Johnny Manziel Counters Strong Accusations on Shannon Sharpe’s Show

Former Browns Johnny Manziel dropped certain truth bombs about himself during his latest appearance on Shannon Sharpe’s Show. The former NFL player stepped into the limelight again talking about his dark past when he was a freshman in college at Texas A&M.

Talking about the transformative moment that redefined his journey, he tells a gripping tale of inebriety, arrests, and “being a lost kid trying to figure it out”. 

Johnny Manziel & the road to redemption

In the show, he opens up about how he always had a dream of joining the TCU Horned Frogs but also just wanted to have a good time. Did you know that his interest in football has been a gradual process? Manziel unveiled,  “My grind and focus and determination of the game didn’t come in unless I got in trouble before my high school years in A&M, June of 2012. It all came to a halt when I got arrested.” 

Following the incident, as Manziel highlighted, there transpired a meeting between his then-coach, Kevin Sumlin, and his parents. This instance served as a wake-up call for him that left him to question his life choices and be responsible for his own actions. Unapologetically, Manziel spilled truths on the show stating, “You either figure this out today, over the next couple weeks or your a** is out of here. Or everything is gone, you worked for, scholarship, gone.” 

Wait! But why was he arrested?

Unveiling Manziel’s turbulent college days 

Manziel spent three seasons at Texas A&M and he played under coach Sumlin for the last two seasons. However, his timeline in the program had been full of trouble, and with this, his football career had been on the verge of derailment. Traveling back in time, to June 29, 2012, while Manziel was still a freshman quarterback at Texas A&M, he was arrested after College Station police found him fighting with another man.

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The same year, in October, the player appeared intoxicated wearing a Scooby Doo costume, three days before Agiies’ game against Mississippi State. As delved by the sources, even though he clinched the prestigious Heisman Trophy in 2012, the player forayed into substance abuse. It was the next year, that his mother stumbled upon paraphernalia at his off-campus residence in College Station. Besides, his college life was marred by the regular use of the prescription anti-anxiety drug Xanax, marijuana, and occasional consumption of MDMA (commonly known as ‘Molly’).  

However, Johnny Manziel has succeeded in surpassing this dark phase and channeled his determination to become a disciplined athlete. Paying homage to Manziel’s journey, the 72-minute Netflix documentary, “Untold; Johnny Football” has touched the fans by exploring the lasting impact of substance on his professional career.  

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