{"id":476,"date":"2013-08-06T15:35:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T19:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=476"},"modified":"2013-08-06T15:44:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T19:44:21","slug":"jon-gruden-attends-wwe-instead-of-watching-bcs-title-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2013\/08\/06\/jon-gruden-attends-wwe-instead-of-watching-bcs-title-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Broker: Johnny Manziel paid $7,500 for autographs, money for rims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/08\/20130806-153726.jpg\" alt=\"20130806-153726.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nJohnny Manziel was allegedly given $7,500 to sign football helmets for an autograph broker on the East Coast reports <a href=\"http:\/\/m.espn.go.com\/general\/story?storyId=9544137&#038;src=desktop\" target=\"new\">ESPN<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The latest signings are said to have occurred Jan 11-12 while Manziel was attending the Walter Camp Football Foundation event.<\/p>\n<p>The broker initially offered to sell videos of Manziel signing helmets to ESPN but later backed out. Videos of the Texas A&#038;M quarterback signing full and mini-sized helmets were recorded by the broker to be used as proof of authentication for PSA\/DNA.<\/p>\n<p>Manziel planned to use the money for new rims for his vehicle. Manziel&#8217;s friend and personal assistant &#8212; Nate Fitch &#8212; was not present or involved in the alleged transactions.<\/p>\n<p>If the NCAA investigation finds that Manziel has violated NCAA Bylaw 12.5.2.1 &#8212; accepting money for promoting or advertising the commercial sale of a product or service &#8212; he could be ruled ineligible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Manziel was allegedly given $7,500 to sign football helmets for an autograph broker on the East Coast reports ESPN. The latest signings are said to have occurred Jan 11-12 while Manziel was attending the Walter Camp Football Foundation event. The broker initially offered to sell videos of Manziel signing helmets to ESPN but later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaafb-media"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}