ESPN may have to cover for Johnny Football to set foot on a football field again...

I knew it.

I damned well good and knew it.

NCAA investigation now underway on Johnny Manziel, according to a report today in Yahoo! through ESPN.

Sometime around the BCS National Championship Game, according to sources, Manziel was approached for, and agreed to, a five-figure sum for signing various memorabilia that began to surface just afterward.

The source does not confirm the money changing hands, but the NCAA wants bank records.

This is the same rule that canned the Ohio State program and Jim Tressel over Terrelle Pryor, et. al. for the tattoos.

I've said it time and again -- more frequently as more news has come out about Manziel:  Johnny Football has never played and will never play an eligible down in the NCAA.  How he got to A&M was crooked, his dealings with his coach were crooked, and I think we're going to find out that Sumlin and A&M were using this kid and a bunch of shady/illegal dealings with The Sports Machine (the media and corporate Powers That Be) to become relevant in college football, rather than be the SEC's and Texas' bitch.

You've got about six weeks, ESPN, to save your regular season.