Terrell Owens is Coming Out of Retirement
48 year old Terrell Owens is coming out of retirement to play football again in the Fan Controlled Football league for a team called the Zappers:
NFL legend Terrell Owens is coming out of retirement, per @Reuters.
The 48-year-old Hall of Famer reportedly plans to join the Zappers of startup Fan Controlled Football.
The Zappers QB? Johnny Manziel 👀 pic.twitter.com/5g43rIBeiV
— Front Office Sports (@FOS) March 31, 2022
What is FCF? Exactly what it sounds like. Fans get to pick the plays the teams run. Per FCF’s Official Site:
“FCF is the first and only IRL professional sports league where fans call the shots – everything from deciding the team name and logo to drafting the players and calling all the plays in real-time. It’s a real-life video game with fans in control of the action!”
Imagine if future you went back in time and told present-day you 10 years after Johnny Manziel takes down Alabama and wins the Heisman he’s going to be playing with Terrell Owens in a league where fans pick the plays. You’d think the future had some really good weed:
#PlayOfTheDay (2012): A&M takes down #1 Alabama, the day that Johnny Manziel became Johnny Football #OhMyGracious pic.twitter.com/FYZ3d6jogE
— Pick Six Previews (@PickSixPreviews) June 1, 2016
But here we are in 2022 Terrell Owens is dusting off the cobwebs after being retired from football for 12 years. Johnny Manziel just announced he was coming back for a second year after playing with Josh Gordon last season:
Johnny Manziel to Josh Gordon.
Watch on @Twitch, @watchvenn and the FCF app.https://t.co/wCfHUSeLKg pic.twitter.com/gqCIOmdjoK
— Fan Controlled Sports (@fancontrolled) March 14, 2021
Guy can still scamper too:
Johnny Manziel is back… kind of 🤔
The former Heisman Trophy winner's long and winding career has brought him to the Fan Controlled Football league, this was his very first play on Saturday for the ‘Zappers’.https://t.co/eDTDGjFwng
— Gridiron (@Gridiron) February 14, 2021
This will be interesting. On one hand it could be like Tom Brady throwing to Randy Moss, or it could just blow up in the Zappers face and be one of the best reality shows of all time. Maybe since the fans control the plays this will be the first QB T.O. doesn’t try to throw under the bus because he’s not getting the ball.
“I love me some me” –
I love me some me. @terrellowens pic.twitter.com/NatGkLNTaJ
— NFL Legacy (@NFLLegacy) March 23, 2022