Posted on 02/12/2018 7:01:24 AM PST by DoodleDawg
Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel says he wants to return to the NFL and adds that he has cleaned his life up since a series of incidents that ultimately got him cut from the team that drafted him.
Manziel said he was self-medicating with alcohol and suffering from depression. He says he is now taking medication for bipolar disorder.
"Thats what I thought would make me happy and get out of that depression," Manziel said to ABC News. "When I would wake up the next day after a night like that, going on a trip like that, and you wake up the next day and that is all gone, that liquid courage, or that liquid ... sense of euphoria that is over you, is all gone."
Manziel, now 25, burst upon the scene with Texas A&M in 2012 becoming the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy.
"I had a sense of entitlement about what I had accomplished at the age," he said.
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I’m thinking a 100% of alcoholics suffer from
bad-choices-itis syndrome. No?
Manziel, stop doing alcohol and drugs, and you might have a chance (to live and maybe play In the nfl).
5.56mm
Maybe Vince McMahon’s new XFL will sign him.
Even if he does still have the raw talent, he is undisciplined and a giant distraction in the locker room. The Browns, logically might give him a chance (what do they have to lose?) but they've been down that road and I doubt that even they wouldn't want to repeat it.
Every alcoholic will admit to making-bad-choices syndrome.
One drink is too many and twenty isnt enough.
makes sense to me.
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