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Holy Zappers Batman! Johnny Football is playing again

Don’t look now, but Johnny Manziel is playing professional football again. Seriously.

Manziel is the starting quarterback for “the Zappers” of the newly-formed “Fan Controlled Football League” (FCFL), a four-team indoor entity.

Nicknamed “Johnny Football” while playing for Texas A&M as the Heisman Trophy winner, he was taken in the first-round of the 2014 NFL draft by the Browns to become their future signalcaller after being named the Sporting News College Football Player-of-the-Year. That experiment lasted just two seasons to which Cleveland severed ties with him as the league’s fiscal year began after several incidents, including being investigated for domestic abuse.