Ryan Leaf, former #2 pick on the 1998 draft whom many thought would have a better career than Peyton Manning retired today after 4 spectacularly horrendous, injury plagued seasons filled with his bad attitude and emotional problems.
That is a waste of a career.
Fantastic! I don’t even know what this is about! 
No, hang on. A draft. Is it basketball?
I am a Charger fan so I just could be a bit biased.
What a total fuckstick that guy is. He’ll spend the rest of his days schtupping that cheer leader wife of his and spending the tens of millions that he made destroying a football franchise. I wish him a life of misery and misfortune.
Haj
Coldie, its about football. He was in the same draft as Peyton Manning, and was supposed to the next best thing to sliced bread. His wrist got screwed up, and he played four pathetic seasons,switching from team to team. He also was a huge asshole, who blamed everyone and everything but his gimp wrist for his problems.
Haj, if it makes you feel any better, by no stretch of the imagination am I a Charger fan (still remember the 1994 AFC Championship game in Three Rivers Stadium :mad: ) and I feel the same way about Leaf that you do.
I remember that game, mouthbreather, but out of respect to you I won’t say anything about it other than to add for the uninformed that Leaf was not yet with the team for this game.
Before his wrist injury, he had a shoulder injury. Injuries happen. It was his pitiful work ethic that was the main problem. That and his horrible attitude. Two stories:
During an off week during his first season, he went back to visit his old college. He got wasted drunk and picked fights with people much smaller than him. When a lady turned down his advances, he told her that he could “buy her father.”
While recovering from shoulder surgery and still on the payroll, he was caught playing in a pick-up flag football game. This sort of activity was not allowed under the terms of his contract particularly during the time that he was in recuperation.
The man is a complete and total worthless piece of shit.
Haj
I believe it was Ryan Leaf who said it best: “Don’t TALK to me, alright?! KNOCK IT OFF!!”
Ah yes, Ryan Leaf.
He got my Beloved Cards some extra draft picks
In his defense, He was thrown into a Offense his where his talents were not best used. (same think happened to Cade in Chicago now with the 49ers) He suffered injurys with further hampered his perfomance. His worse crime was the fact, he did not rise abouve the challange and keep plugging at it and try to get better. Payton Manning did.
Not many QBs who get thrown to the wolves in their rookie year turn out to be worth a crap. They buckle like a belt at the complexity and never recover. Those who do rise above their rookie year turn out to be hall of fame bound or a least many pro-bowls to come.
The chargers took a very expensive gamble and lost. Not because Leaf was without talent, only because Leaf lacked the maturity to admit his mistakes, Work as a team player and focus.
If Leaf had stayed in Seattle and worked hard he could have become a good QB in the NFL.
Unfortunately People like Leaf are not wired to work for it, they want it all to come to them.
No loss for the NFL that gives someone less talented who will work hard the opportunity to play.
Bye Mr Leaf, hope you invested that money well.
He is prolly still whining about the one extra second he thinks Washington State should have gotten in the Rose Bowl against Michigan.
Meanwhile, the Michigan QB in that game (Brian Griese) has had a fairly successful pro career although he was not necessarily expected to.