{"id":9907,"date":"2014-04-17T19:29:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T23:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9907"},"modified":"2014-04-17T19:29:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T23:29:51","slug":"chad-johnson-signs-with-cfls-montreal-alouettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/04\/17\/chad-johnson-signs-with-cfls-montreal-alouettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Johnson signs with CFL&#8217;s Montreal Alouettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3186\" alt=\"chadjohnson\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/chadjohnson.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/chadjohnson.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/chadjohnson-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/03\/chadjohnson-50x35.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson is back in football.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has been trying to find a job for years in the NFL and recently had a workout with the Montreal Alouettes. The results impressed the team enough that they signed Johnson.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23WelcomeToMontreal&amp;src=hash\">#WelcomeToMontreal<\/a> trending Nationally. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/KX58oIesq9\">pic.twitter.com\/KX58oIesq9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CFL Official Feed (@CFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CFL\/statuses\/456864704023908352\">April 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While it is doubtful that the now 36-year-old Johnson will return to the NFL via this route it will keep him in the press and does just enough to keep the dream alive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A dream of mine since I was 4 years old was taken from me, rightfully so, by my wrongdoings and I just want to get back to doing something that I love to do, regardless of where it is,&#8221; Johnson said, according to the New York Daily News. &#8220;Montreal, flag football, back in the street the way I grew up. I just want to play football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his NFL career Johnson totaled 766 catches for 11,059 yards and 67 touchdowns in a career that spanned from 2001-2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson is back in football. Johnson has been trying to find a job for years in the NFL and recently had a workout with the Montreal Alouettes. The results impressed the team enough that they signed Johnson. #WelcomeToMontreal trending Nationally. &#8211; pic.twitter.com\/KX58oIesq9 \u2014 CFL Official Feed (@CFL) April 17, 2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[169,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chad-johnson","9":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9908,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9907\/revisions\/9908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9907"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}