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Marcus Allen
Marcus LeMarr Allen (born March 26, 1960) is a former American football running back and football analyst for CBS.
 As a professional, Allen ran for 12,243 yards and caught 587 passes for 5,412 yards during his career for both the Los Angeles Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs from 1982 to 1997.
 He scored 145 touchdowns, including a then-league-record 123 rushing touchdowns, and was elected to six Pro Bowls over the course of his career.
 Allen was the first NFL player to gain more than 10,000 rushing yards and 5,000 receiving yards during his career.
Damon Allen
Damon Allen (born July 29, 1963) is a former professional quarterback who played in the Canadian Football League.
 He is currently second in all-time professional football passing yards and second in 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 combined passing & rushing leader with a total of 84,301 yards.
 Allen retired as 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 all-time CFL rushing yards with 11,920 yards, behind Mike Pringle and George Reed.
 The 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 Pro Football Hall of Famer Marcus Allen.
2000 Montreal Alouettes season
The 2000 Montreal Alouettes finished in first place in the East Division with a 12–6–0 record.
 This was Anthony Calvillo's first season as the full-time starter, and he didn't disappoint, having an allstar year, first leading his team to the Grey Cup, by beating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 35-24 in the East Final, as they appeared in the Grey Cup for the first time since 1979, but lost to the BC Lions, who were led by Damon Allen.
 Overall it was a great year for the Alouettes, even if they lost the Grey Cup. 1991 Los Angeles Raiders season
The 1991 Los Angeles Raiders season was their 32nd in the National Football League (NFL).
 They were unable to improve upon their previous season's output of 12–4, winning only nine games.
 After a 9-4 start, the team lost its last three games, but did qualify for the playoffs for the second straight season.
 The Raiders were inconsistent offensively, with struggling quarterback Jay Schroeder eventually benched in favor of rookie Todd Marinovich.
 It was notable that future Hall of Famer Marcus Allen's role was restricted mainly to backing up newly acquired Roger Craig, and future All-Pro Tim Brown also played mostly as a reserve, starting only one game.
 The loss of Bo Jackson to a career-ending inury also clearly had an impact.
 A solid defense was led by Howie Long, Greg Townsend (13 sacks) and another acquisition from Northern California as the Raiders played in LA and not Oakland as some people have forgotten , Ronnie Lott (8 interceptions). Heisman curse
The Heisman curse is a term coined to reference a two-part assertion of a negative future for the winning player of the Heisman Trophy.
 The "curse" supposes that any college football player who wins the Heisman plays on a team that will likely lose its subsequent bowl game.
 The trend of post-award failure has garnered the attention of the mainstream media.
 Talk of a curse in relation to bowl results was particularly prevalent from 2003 to 2008, when six Heisman Trophy winners compiled a cumulative 1–5 bowl game record, and five of those six led number one ranked teams into the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) National Championship Game as favorites (Heisman Trophy winners, including Reggie Bush, who gave back his Heisman Trophy, are 4–8 overall in the BCS National Championship Game and College Football Playoff National Championship, although prior to 2009 they were 1–6).
 Additionally, the Heisman curse asserts that in most cases a Heisman winner will have either a poor career in the National Football League (NFL), or in fact not even see such a football career at all.
 Although many Heisman winners have not enjoyed success at the professional level, including players like Matt Leinart, Andre Ware, Jason White, Rashaan Salaam, Eric Crouch, Ty Detmer, Troy Smith and Gino Torretta, proponents of the "curse" rarely cite highly successful players such as Barry Sanders, Charles Woodson, Eddie George, Tim Brown, Bo Jackson, Marcus Allen, Earl Campbell, and Tony Dorsett among the notables. Marcus Knecht
Marcus Allen Knecht (born June 21, 1990) is a Canadian professional baseball outfielder for the Québec Capitales of the Can-Am League.
 Prior to beginning his professional career, he played college baseball at Oklahoma State University and Connors State College.
 Knecht has also competed for the Canadian national baseball team. Damon Allen (figure skater)
Damon Allen is an American former competitive figure skater who currently works as a coach and choreographer.
 He is the 1992 World Junior bronze medalist and a two-time Winter Universiade silver medalist.
 Allen currently coaches at the World Arena Ice Hall.
 In July 2014, he married Enrique Viveros in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Damon Allen (disambiguation)
Damon Allen (born 1963) is a retired Canadian Football League quarterback. Danny McManus
Danny McManus (born June 17, 1965) is a retired professional American football and Canadian football quarterback who passed for over 50,000 yards in seventeen seasons in the Canadian Football League and currently serves as the Assistant General Manager and Director for US Scouting for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
 He played every season in the league from 1990 to 2006, as a member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, BC Lions, Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, and finally with the Calgary Stampeders.
 As of 2007, his all-time CFL passing yardage is third most next to Damon Allen and Anthony Calvillo, and he works as a colour analyst for TSN's CFL broadcasts, having previously appeared as a guest analyst on the CFL on CBC late in his playing career.
 On December 2, 2013, McManus was named the Assistant General Manager and Director of U.S. Scouting for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
 Previous to that, he served as the director of scouting for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Shurman
Shurman is a rock band from Austin, TX, USA, founded by Aaron Beavers and Damon Allen.