Ryan Leaf Intercepted Yet Again

Charger fans have heard this before, only this time they're cheering.

The man who threw 36 interceptions in 25 career games was detained at the U.S.-Canada border Wednesday.  The former #2 pick in the NFL (behind Peyton Manning) had a warrant out for his arrest, stemming from drug and burglary charges.  He had been given a Thursday deadline by the Texas DA to turn himself in, or the bounty hunters would be sent to British Columbia looking for him.

The highlight of Leaf's career came when he was drafted in 1998 by San Diego, and it was all downhill from then on.  As a rookie, he managed only 2 touchdowns against 15 interceptions.  He berated local reporters and even teammates, while also coming across as an arrogant ass during an appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Failing miserably in San Diego, he was jettisoned to Tampa Bay and Dallas, and out of the league by 2002.

Leaf eventually took a job as golf coach and quarterbacks coach at West Texas A&M before the drug charges emerged last November.  He was even the subject of an independent film about his life story, a movie that drew the curiosity of San Diegans looking for one last opportunity to spit venom at their failed prize quarterback.

Free on $45,000 bond, Leaf is charged with the second-degree felony charge of burglary to a habitation, . Allegedly, he broke into an athlete's apartment to steal prescription pain killers.  Leaf was also indicted on seven counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and one count of delivery of a simulated controlled substance.

What I don't get is why a judge is granting him bail in the first place.  There's obviously legal precedent to do so (says the guy who obviously isn't a lawyer).  But the guy was just shacked up in Canada, where he headed after drug allegations first arose in November.  How is he not a threat to jump bail?

Then again, he was too dumb to just cross the border of Texas into Mexico and snag the meds there.

If found guilty, here's hoping his career on the prison football team goes better than his NFL stint

(Photo: Getty Images)

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Chase Parker believes in the East Coast bias, stretching triples into doubles, and considers Tommy Boy to be the greatest athlete of our generation.

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