Ryan Leaf has a sense of humor these days about being one of the NFL’s biggest draft busts (remember, he joked recently about being left off the NFL 100 list).
So when his name was the answer to a clue on Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time and he heard about it from the hosts on ESPN’s Golic and Wingo, he found a good way to respond.
The clue was: “In 1998, football fans debated who was the NCAA’s best QB: Peyton Manning or this Washington State Universtiy Cougar; their pro careers went opposite ways.”
It was that last part that Trey Wingo and Mike Golic thought was “unnecessary,” and they all joked about Alex Trebek’s tone on reading it. Leaf thought because the show was on ABC, they could have taken an ESPN route with it:
Leaf also tweeted about it:
Here’s how the official Jeopardy! account responded:
