The ANNOTICO Report

Dan Marino, was the NFL's Most Prolific Passer EVER!!!

Marino, in his 17 year career owned 21 NFL marks when he retired, including
4,967 completions, 8,358 passes, 61,361 yards (nearly 35 miles) and 420
touchdowns. His record of 48 TD passes in the 1984 season, when he was MVP,
was broken by Peyton Manning only last year, standing for two decades.

Marino also set NFL marks of most seasons with 3,000 yards or more passing
(13); most yards passing in one season (5,084 in '84, the only year he won
a conference championship); and most games with 300 yards or more passing
(63).

To put matters in perspective, Benny Friedman, the NFL's FIRST great
passer, whose career spanned 1927-1934, threw 66 Touchdown passes in his
CAREER. Marino threw 48 TDs in ONE YEAR, and 420 TDs in his Career.

Marino was Inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame along with Steve Young, Benny
Friedman, and Fritz Pollard.

Marino was humble, self effacing, grateful, and charming as usual, always
spurning the 'mouthy' "I'm the greatest" proclamations of many of his
fellow athletes, and instead showing respect and friendship to opponents.

NFL years, team: 1983-1999 Miami Dolphins.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

•  Miami's first-round pick (27th overall) of the 1983 draft.

•  Five other quarterbacks, including Hall of Famers Jim Kelly and John
Elway, had been taken before the Dolphins grabbed Marino.

•  Career statistics include 4,967 completions, 8,358 attempts for 61,343
yards, and 420 TDs.

•  Marino threw 20 touchdowns and recorded a 96.0 passer rating to earn
rookie-of-the-year honors.

•  In 1984, became first player to pass for 5,000 yards in a season (5,084)
and threw a then-record 48 TDs.
By season's end, he had set six league records and was named the NFL's most
valuable player.

•  In the 1984 AFC championship game, Marino passed for 421 yards and threw
four touchdowns in the Dolphins' 45-28 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers,
earning his first and only trip to the Super Bowl.

•  By the end of the 1995 season he had supplanted Hall of Fame quarterback
Fran Tarkenton as the career passing leader in attempts, completions, yards
and touchdowns.

•  Recorded 13 3,000-yard seasons, which includes the six seasons he
reached the 4,000-yard mark.

•  Passed for 300 yards in a game 63 times and threw for 400 or more yards
in a game 13 times. Marino was named first- or second-team All-Pro eight
times and earned All-AFC honors six times.

•  Selected to nine consecutive Pro Bowls.

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Associated Press
August 07, 2005

CANTON, Ohio - The eyes that stared down defenses betrayed Dan Marino on
Sunday. They were wet with tears as he took his place among the legends of
football.

Marino suspected he might break down and cry during his emotionally charged
acceptance speech. He did so even before then, after his oldest son
Daniel's introduction.

None of that on-field stoicism for the Miami Dolphins great, at least not
on this sun-splashed day in front of thousands of fans in No. 13 jerseys,
and amid chants of "D-A-N-N-Y."

"I'll remember this day for the rest of my life," Marino said.

Then he capped it by throwing - what else? - a perfect spiral into the
audience to his former receiving partner, Mark Clayton.

"Go deep, Mark," Marino said as he licked the fingers on his right hand, a
trademark of his 17-year career.

Marino, the NFL's most prolific passer, joined Steve Young, Fritz Pollard
and Benny Friedman in the shrine. Paying tribute to his Western
Pennsylvania roots, Marino noted that John Unitas, Joe Namath, Joe Montana
and Jim Kelly all came from the region. All are Hall of Famers.

"When I was younger, there's no doubt I thought about being Joe Namath,"
Marino said, adding that joining them in the Hall "definitely makes an
impact on you."...

While Marino and Young had diverse styles, they both spent years at the top
of their profession. Marino set NFL marks of 4,967 completions, 8,358
passes, 61,361 yards (nearly 35 miles) and 420 touchdowns. His record of 48
TD passes in the 1984 season, when he was MVP, was broken by Peyton Manning
last year.

He also owned 21 NFL marks when he retired, including most seasons with
3,000 yards or more passing (13); most yards passing in one season (5,084
in '84, the only year he won a conference championship); and most games
with 300 yards or more passing (63).

"I know individually you get the honor of being inducted in the Hall of
Fame," Marino said, "but you see coach (Don) Shula up onstage and teammates
and family and friends - my mom and dad and wife and kids - this day is for
them."

The only achievement Marino didn't reach that Young did was winning a
title. Young, the 1992 and '94 league MVP after taking over for Montana in
San Francisco, and the career passing efficiency leader, guided the 49ers
to the '94 championship. He also is the first left-handed QB in the Hall.

"I can taste the pride I felt to be able to put on a 49ers jersey and
represent the great city of San Francisco," Young said. "In San Francisco,
I found football in its newly enlightened form. I found heaven on Earth for
football."

Pollard, like Friedman, was a pro football pioneer and the first black NFL
head coach. After a sensational college career at Brown, where he became
the first black to play in the Rose Bowl, the running back led the Akron
Pros to the 1920 championship. They went undefeated.He later organized the
Chicago Brown Bombers, an independent team of black players that
barnstormed the country from 1927-33...

"Fritz Pollard was a 5-foot-9, 165-pound running back who had the speed of
Tony Dorsett, the elusiveness of Barry Sanders and the tenacity of Walter
Payton," His grandson, Stephen Towns said in his acceptance speech....

Friedman, who died in 1982, probably was the first great pro passer, and
his 20 TD throws in 1929 were considered phenomenal because the ball he
threw barely resembled the modern football. The record stood for 14 years.

He played for four teams from 1927-34 and was a strong draw at the box
office, even helping the New York Giants become a solvent operation in
those early NFL days...

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