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Wow...Found this and thought Dolfan's would love it...."Dolphins Pick Dan Marino"

Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by vt_dolfan, Sep 19, 2013.

  1. vt_dolfan

    vt_dolfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

    Some great stuff here, I havent seen anywhere else..

    [video=youtube;kBxVaifI1NY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBxVaifI1NY[/video]
     
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  2. vt_dolfan

    vt_dolfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

    Paul Zimmerman...

    How many times you think hes had to eat crow on those opinions.....lol
     
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  3. Scrap

    Scrap Active Member

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    LoL...Howard Balzer reminds me of the guy on Napolean Dynamite who said he could throw a football over a mountain.
     
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  4. vt_dolfan

    vt_dolfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

    I know right...and damn..look at Chris Berman. Cant get over Zimmerman though. Was Marino really that hard to predict stardom from?
     
  5. djphinfan

    djphinfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Those read and release stats were interesting.
     
  6. ATLFINFAN

    ATLFINFAN Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    My how the draft has changed.
     
  7. Tin Indian

    Tin Indian Rockin' The Bottom End Club Member

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    Very few even had ESPN at that point. Most of the time you didn't find out who you drafted until you read the paper the next day.
     
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  8. fins4o8

    fins4o8 Mac FTW!

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    I saw this by watching espns elway to Marino. A great piece if u haven't watched it

    -Sent from my TMO Samsung Galaxy S4
     
  9. ElNino

    ElNino Well-Known Member

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    These analysts appear to need some coffee, prozac, etc. Look like their mother just died, Dr Z especially.
     
  10. Sippi

    Sippi Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    That was great! I loved the sleeper pic, Darrell Green. He didn't turn out too badly either. =)
     
  11. The G Man

    The G Man Git 'r doooonnne!!!

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    Indeed. And, I think one of the things that made it so interesting was listening to their agent, Marvin Demoff (they had the same agent) tell the story. He said at the end of the piece that people always asked him who was better, and he said that he knew but couldn't say. Then, he said the truth was he never knew. I call BS on that, I think we all know who was better.
     
  12. fins4o8

    fins4o8 Mac FTW!

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    True, that we all know who's better but as an agent & friend to the both of them. He did the right thing with his answer.

    For anyone who hasn't seen the Elway to Marino piece. I highly recommend it. Its such a great piece.

    Lastly, THANK U to all the teams that passed on Danny! Your decision made my childhood a blessing while watching Danny play.

    -Sent from my TMO Samsung Galaxy S4
     
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  13. The G Man

    The G Man Git 'r doooonnne!!!

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    Agreed, and agreed. :up:
     
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  14. rafael

    rafael Well-Known Member

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    I remember being in school that day. The draft back then was on a week day. Another kid had stayed home part of that day b/c he had a dentist appointment. He was able to tell us what happened since he came in after the Dolphins had picked.
     
  15. mroz

    mroz Fix the OL Club Member

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  16. rafael

    rafael Well-Known Member

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    I had him as the third QB in that draft. I wanted Kelly above all. I didn't like Elway, but he was a great prospect. I had Marino after those two, butI still thought he was an elite QB prospect.
     
  17. mroz

    mroz Fix the OL Club Member

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    I find it highly unlikely that you had Marino rated ahead of Blackledge, Tony Eason and of course… Ken "I played at UC Davis" O'Brien…. :tongue2:
     
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  18. sunworshipper

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    I don't know why it matters but I remember his first game against the Raiders on Monday night and that article got it wrong. The final score was 27-14, not 27-7. They were getting shutout with Woodley, just no offense at all, miserable night. Then they put Danny in late in the fourth quarter and he drove them to TWO touchdowns. TD pass to Joe Rose, onside kick, TD pass to Mark Duper. That might have been Duper's first TD.
     
  19. mroz

    mroz Fix the OL Club Member

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    I was his first TD
     
  20. sunworshipper

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    I just noticed the video on Marino's rookie TD passes on that site. Nice. But I still wince at the memory of that playoff game against the Seahawks (who were still in the AFC at that time). Marino drives them in the 4thQ for the lead, Seattle drives for a TD to retake the lead, !@#ing Fulton Walker fumbles the kickoff, Hawks increase lead with a FG, and then the mother!@#$ing Fulton Walker fumbles another kickoff, and Seattle runs the clock out. Seattle got three consecutive drives after Miami led.
     
  21. jim1

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    Who the heck is Ken O'Brien?

    Steelers with the huge blunder, Senor Sack over hometown hero Dan Marino.
     
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  23. Rocky Raccoon

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    Hahaha. It's uncanny.
     
  24. Tin Indian

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    I definately did not like Elway. I did not like all the I'll go play baseball if the Bucs draft me nonsense.

    I was all about Marino, I had seen him play in that Pitt/Penn State Thanksgiving game when he was a Junior. One of the few college games I watched when I was a kid and I was completely blown away by him. Then he had a shaky senior season, the drug allegations and he fell right in our lap. I couldn't believe our good luck!
     
  25. Drowning

    Drowning ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH

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    Amen, brother. Amen.
     
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  26. rafael

    rafael Well-Known Member

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    I had even bought a Pitt cap before we drafted him. I didn't think we'd get him or anything. I was just a fan of his.
     
  27. vt_dolfan

    vt_dolfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

    Serious?

    Man..the O'brien / Marino shootouts were thing of legend.
     
  28. rafael

    rafael Well-Known Member

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    I assumed it was sarcasm. That was actually the sentiment expressed most often when the pick was first made.
     
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  29. jim1

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    "Who's he?" - Don Shula when the Jets took Ken O'Brien with the 24th pick in the 1983 draft, leaving Dan Marino for the Dolphins

    http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2009-07-19/sports/0907200180_1_jay-fiedler-dolphins-shula

    Thirty years ago, the Steelers made one of the great draft blunders of all time when they bypassed Dan Marino to draft defensive tackle Gabe Rivera. That fall, Rivera was paralyzed in a car accident and has been in a wheelchair since. Marino is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

    ESPN Films’ next installment in the critically-acclaimed 30 for 30 series will be Elway to Marino from director Ken Rodgers (NFL Films). Elway to Marino is narrated by Tom Selleck and debuts at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23 on ESPN. (I'd like to see that)

    http://plus.sites.post-gazette.com/...780-ed-30-years-ago-steelers-passed-on-marino


    http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/20...-20130419_1_nfl-draft-first-draft-norm-pollom
     

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