Damon Allen (born July 29, 1963 in San Diego, California) is a professional football player in the Canadian Football League. He is a quarterback for the Toronto Argonauts, currently on the nine-game injured list. Allen leads the All-Time Pro football passing chart with 72,381 passing yards; 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.blank">http://www.cfl.ca/index.php?module=newser&func=display&nid=11419http://www.cbc.ca/story/sports/national/2006/09/04/cfl-argonauts-tigercats.html The 2007 season marks Allen's twenty-third season in the CFL. Allen is the younger brother of _NFL Hall of Famer Marcus Allen.
Allen has been mentioned as one of the greatest CFL quarterbacks of all time; he has approximately 20,000 more passing yards than second-place Danny McManus. In addition, he stands fifteenth on the all time professional rushing list (third on the all time CFL list behind Mike Pringle and George Reed) and as of August 31, 2006, he stood only 464 yards behind his brother Marcus. Damon is widely considered the best football player to never play in the NFL .
