Quarterback Johnny Manziel somehow got himself banned from the Canadian Football League

Johnny Football strikes again.

It's been quite a while since Johnny Manziel, the former Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback at Texas A&M and 2014 first-round pick of the Cleveland Browns, was in the news. But he's back and, unsurprisingly, it's not for positive reasons.

ESPN reported that the former phenom was just released by the Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouttes for violating "one of the conditions" the CFL had set for him to be able to play in the league, though the infraction itself was not released. Not only can Manziel no longer play for Montreal, he's banned from playing in the CFL completely. So, if he wants to try to play football again, it won't be in Canada.

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Manziel tweeted that he's "exploring new options within the United States", but it's unclear if any team from either the NFL or, perhaps, the newly-formed Alliance of American Football will entertain the idea of signing him.

Manziel has been out of the NFL since 2015 thanks to numerous off-the-field incidents, including a domestic violence charge. He also performed poorly on the field, completing just 57 percent of passes and throwing seven touchdowns against seven interceptions in his short, 15-game NFL career.

But he returned to the gridiron in 2018 when the CFL's Hamilton Tiger Cats inked him to a deal. Hamilton then traded him to the Montreal Alouettes last summer.