{"id":901256,"date":"2026-05-25T23:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/901256\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T23:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:39:15","slug":"johnny-manziel-said-he-hated-living-in-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/901256\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Manziel said he hated living in Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just ahead of his first MMA fight, former <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cleveland-browns\/329\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland Browns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cleveland Browns&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Cleveland Browns<\/a> quarterback Johnny Manziel talked about what life in Cleveland was like.<\/p>\n<p>In a word, Manziel hated living in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat place definitely aided to my depression for sure.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan I hated Cleveland so much and I know that\u2019s going to be so tough to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manziel talked about how he thought he could handle being in Cleveland. He talked about how nice the downtown area was, LeBron James was coming back, which was bringing excitement to the city, and then the late fall and winter hit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing from Texas, then that first real November was like [Expletive] brutal, then that winter was like what the [Expletive]?\u201cIt was tough sledding for me for sure,\u201d Manziel added.<\/p>\n<p>Manziel said his second year was better than his first year. He bought a house in a nice suburb and seems to like it more.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s well documented that Manziel has talked about his battles with depression and drug use over the years, and his years with the Browns were a bit wild. It seems that things started to unravel while he was there.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Touchdown Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/touchdownwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/touchdown\/2026\/05\/25\/johnny-manziel-said-he-hated-living-in-cleveland\/90251541007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Johnny Manziel said he hated living in Cleveland;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Johnny Manziel said he hated living in Cleveland&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Johnny Manziel said he hated living in Cleveland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just ahead of his first MMA fight, former Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel talked about what life in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,2337,5201,7,13456,10317,6],"class_list":["post-901256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-browns","tag-browns","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-clevelandbrowns","tag-expletive","tag-football","tag-johnny-manziel","tag-lebron-james","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116637857466599491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}