This Slate story on all the different people who pose as athletes is full of bizarre stories, but nothing can ever top this one. From the L.A. Times in 2002:
Hold On, Hold On: A Black Dude Was Impersonating Danny Wuerffel?
↵↵Danny Wuerffel, the 1996 Heisman Trophy winner, got a real-world reminder two years ago when he was a backup quarterback in Green Bay. He got a call from the Home Depot credit department, asking if he had just applied for a $16,000 home-improvement loan at a store in South Plainfield, N.J. He had not.
↵Turns out, a scam artist had applied for the loan using Wuerffel’s name, birth date and Social Security number. He aroused suspicion, though, when he misspelled Destin, Fla., where the player lives in the off-season. It escaped notice that the impostor was described as a slender black man in his mid-30s. Wuerffel, then 26, is white, 6 feet 1 and 212 pounds.
↵↵Seriously, though. You can impersonate Vince Young all you want. But Danny Wuerffel? That’s just about as good as it gets.
↵Check out the rest of Slate’s story here.
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