Danny McManus is a former professional American football and Canadian football quarterback who passed for over 53,000 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.
31 Facts About Danny McManus
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Danny McManus 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.
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Danny McManus was named the starter as quarterback in 1985 and led the Seminoles to defeat Nebraska.
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Danny McManus, who threw for 375 yards and three touchdowns in the bowl game, was named the most valuable player, and wound up with 1,984 yards and fourteen touchdowns on the year.
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Danny McManus made the Chiefs out of training camp, and spent his first, and only, National Football League season on the bench as the third quarterback.
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Danny McManus saw no action and was released during 1989's training camp.
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Danny McManus spent all of 1989 trying to catch on with another NFL team but was unsuccessful.
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Unable to find a place to play in 1989, Danny McManus signed with the Canadian Football League's Winnipeg Blue Bombers in time for the 1990 season.
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Danny McManus made his second Grey Cup appearance in 1992, again coming in for a relief stint.
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For 1994, Danny McManus was again the backup, this time to Kent Austin.
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In 1995, Danny McManus was given the reins as the Lions' full-time starter.
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Danny McManus threw for 4,655 yards and 19 touchdowns.
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Any animosity Danny McManus must have felt to the Eskimos must have quickly cooled as he signed with Edmonton during the off-season as a free agent following his release by British Columbia.
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Danny McManus had an excellent game despite the conditions with 413 yards and three touchdowns, but was outplayed by Toronto's Flutie, who was named the most outstanding player.
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Danny McManus fell to fourth in passing yardage but was still the Edmonton nominee for Most Outstanding Player.
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Danny McManus threw for an excellent 407 yards in the game in a losing effort.
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Danny McManus left the Eskimos as a free agent for 1998, as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats signed both the veteran quarterback and his all-time favorite receiver, Darren Flutie.
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Danny McManus arrived on a talent-laden team and did not disappoint, finishing second in passing yardage for the second time in his career and becoming only the second Hamilton quarterback to pass for over 4,000 yards in a season.
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The icing on the cake came on the 87th Grey Cup, where Danny McManus thwarted the Stampeders' drive for a repeat in a rematch of the previous year's championship game.
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In 2000, Danny McManus set the CFL record with six straight seasons throwing for at least 4,000 yards.
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Danny McManus turned 38 during the 2003 CFL season, and the retirement talk was coming in hard.
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Danny McManus might have been hurt by the loss of preferred target Darren Flutie to retirement.
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Danny McManus threw for 2,544 yards and eleven touchdowns with a quarterback rating of 67.1, and spent time on the bench in favor of Khari Jones, Marcus Brady, and the unknown Kevin Eakin who all took snaps.
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On March 31,2006, Danny McManus was traded for the second time in his career, this time to the Calgary Stampeders.
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Danny McManus announced his retirement from playing football on April 2,2007.
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Danny McManus was quickly snapped up by TSN as an analyst for CFL game broadcasts for the 2007 season.
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Danny McManus was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2011.
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Danny McManus began working as a guest coach with the Tiger-Cats during 2008 CFL season training camp and signed on as a coaching consultant in July to assist offensive co-ordinator Marcel Bellefeuille and work with the quarterbacks.
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Danny McManus was formerly the head US scout for the Ti-Cats.
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On December 2,2013, it was announced by TSN that Danny McManus has been hired as the Assistant General Manager and Director of US Scouting for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
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Danny McManus was hired by his former Ti-Cats teammate, Kyle Walters, who is serving as Winnipeg Blue Bomber's General Manager.