Damon Allen
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"Damon Allen" is a former professional quarterback who played in the Canadian Football League. He is currently second in List of gridiron football quarterbacks passing statistics/all-time professional football passing yards and second in List of Canadian Football League records (individual)#Passing/all-time CFL passing yards after he was surpassed for first place by the Montréal Alouettes' Anthony Calvillo on October 10, 2011. "He is pro-football's combine passing & rushing leader with a total of 84,301 yds". Allen retired as the professional football's all-time leading passer with 72,381 passing yards after he surpassed Warren Moon's total of 70,553 yards (in both the CFL and NFL combined) on September 4, 2006 in the annual Labour Day Classic. He also retired in third place in List of Canadian Football League records (individual)#Rushing/all-time CFL rushing yards with 11,920 yards, behind Mike Pringle (football)/Mike Pringle and George Reed. The 2007 CFL season/2007 season marked Allen's twenty-third season in the CFL and he officially announced his retirement on May 28, 2008 at age 44. Allen is the younger brother of NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame/Hall of Famer Marcus Allen.

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We made the record on our own and basically paid for it out of our tour money.

I haven't even thought about it I hope not.

You always have a feeling that you're going to come down to Montreal for first place overall. That day will come, but the main thing is we needed to continue to win.

It's amazing what those situations can do. It changed the whole ... the game. If it's anything that's been killing us, it's turnovers. We've been turning it over too many times.

I don't think we're trying to keep pace (with Montreal) so much as we're trying to win as many games as possible before we finish the season.

I meant to lob it over his (Cotton's) head but I missed and he made a good play.

Those are all the hidden stigmas they put on people early in their careers -- that you're a running quarterback.

This time around, I was much more prepared to play.

We wanted to have a fast start.