Manziel Gets a Wrist Slap: Half Game Suspension

Well it seems that Rice will only have to face Johnny Football in the second half of Texas A&Ms season opener.

It reportedly took six hours of interviewing Manziel on Sunday for the NCAA and school to determine that he will sit out, at most, two hours of football. And thus concludes what will go down as the most overblown college football story of 2013.

Half a game. Against Rice. Not quite worth all the hot air devoted to the investigation over the last couple of weeks. 

I wonder if this means that Manziel actually did get some cashola for his autograph or not? It seems that A&M is not admitting guilt:

When the first guy with the news is A&M mouthpiece Billy Luicci of TexAgs.com, you know where it came from. The same story then was repeated to other media outlets as well. The immediate spin from "sources" (read: A&M) to ESPN and others is that the NCAA "acknowledged Manziel did not receive money for signing autographs."

If that is true why is A&M accepting a suspension? I guess he just signed the autographs and some other guy sold them later on. For whatever reason an NCAA player needs to make sure his autograph is not sold while he is still playing. Maybe Johnny Football should put an RFID tag on each piece of memorabilia to track its movement until he has left college. The NCAA is such a joke organization.