5 most shocking revelations from Untold: Johnny Manziel documentary

Let me start by saying that the Untold: Johnny Manziel documentary on Netflix got me excited about the return of college football in the same way that Last Chance U used to.

This documentary about Johnny Football was just wild and it opened up about the star’s struggles off the field and why he just didn’t have the success in the NFL that we all expected.

Here are five of the most shocking revelations from the documentary.

5. Johnny lied about his family being rich to cover up autograph scandal

Johnny Manziel had an infamous autograph scandal after his freshman year at Texas A&M and it led to him being suspended for the first half of the season opener against Rice in 2013.

Basically, Manziel was trading autographs for thousands of dollars and was being paid by multiple people to sign a bunch of memorabilia and that’s how he was able to afford to go all over the map following his freshman season.

The NCAA started getting suspicious (although nowadays, players can make money doing this) and poked around in the autographs. Johnny and his friend Nate, who acted as his agent in college, devised a plan to say that nothing can be proven from pictures of Manziel signing autographs because he’s allowed to do that. Instead, they said he did that voluntarily for no pay and he was able to do a bunch of traveling and partying because his family was rich.

And it worked.

The NCAA said that it couldn’t prove that he was paid to provide autographs and was suspended for half of a game as punishment for the potential controversy.

Kind of a genius move to get away with it.