CLEVELAND (AP) – Johnny Manziel famously made his entrance into the NFL by putting on a Browns baseball cap and strutting onto the stage of New York’s Radio City Music Hall while rubbing his fingers together.
Money Manziel promised to “wreck this league.”
He wrecked all right.
The Browns indicated Tuesday that they’ve finally had enough of Manziel’s bad-boy behavior and intend to release the quarterback in March when the league begins its next calendar year. Manziel has run out of chances in Cleveland, where he was welcomed like a hero but will leave in disgrace to a cloudy future.
“We’ve been clear about expectations for our players on and off the field,” Browns vice president of football operations Sashi Brown said in a strongly worded statement that unofficially ended Manziel’s tumultuous two-year stint with the Browns. “Johnny’s continual involvement in incidents that run counter to those expectations undermines the hard work of his teammates and the reputation of our organization.