Dan the Man

[dolphinzrwj1]

when danny was there every defense his whole career played the pass, dolphins always said they were coming into the season to try to run the ball better but never did. if only he had a decent defense and somewhat of running game.

[DegenerateKing13]

Marino and Jim Kelly were both the last 2 good quaterbacks for both teams respectively and its a shame because i miss the Bills- dolphin rivalry

[caraway407]

if only he a running game, he was the best...the mark brothers were way underrated too

[ronaldoi62]

If Dan Marino did'nt retire sooner than expected and did'nt miss any regular season games in his entire career, brett farve would'nt be able to be where he's now.Changes in the NFL's rule book on depending receivers was the only reason Peyton and Tom got past the TD records. But no other QB has broken the league's passing records in TD YDS ATT COMP and went all the way to the Super Bowl in the same YEAR!, but Dan, he's the "MAN". Bar none he's uncomparably the best ever quarterback that lived.

[ronaldoi62]

If Dan Marino did'nt retire sooner than expected and did'nt miss any regular season games in his entire career, brett farve would'nt be able to be where he's now.Changes in the NFL's rule book on depending receivers was the only reason Payton and Tom got past the TD records. But no other QB has broken the league's passing records in TD YDS ATT COMP and went all the way to the Super Bowl in the same YEAR!, but Dan, he's the "MAN". Bar none he's uncomparably the best ever quarterback that lived.

[JoaquinSerrapio]

what a monster, noone does it quite like him till this dayyy. Closest we got is peyton manning haha reminds me so much of him

[finsfan13]

1984 Super Bowl:

Dolphins rushing: 25 yards

49ers rushing: 211 yards

That is all that needs to be said.

[lazerlazer]

Another great Pitt player in the pros!

[DoesNotExist305]

Dan Marino > Tom Brady

[rickatart]

waste of TV time on an overrated loser..........good filler to kill time during rain delays or some shit hahahahahaaaaaa

[matz11123]

we have some good offense now like davone bess you saw him against the patriots it blew my mind but its our quarterback take chad henne and his dumbass and start chad penningtion he doesnt throw picks like that moron

[danmetzg]

@matz11123 Excuse me did you forget about the last playoff game the Dolphins went to...Yeah he gave the game away with his interceptions.....

[bjchit]

He had a bad game. Everybody does. He threw 7 all year before that. No need to throw CP10 under the bus.

[montelinus]

Damn we had a killer offense. Too bad we didn't have any D.

[serratealldemoncrats]

Why do poeple show this slow-motion shit for??

[bjchit]

So people can see the football when Marino slings it.

[matz11123]

@serratealldemoncrats he probably slings it so fast nobody can see it X D

[lazerlazer]

@matz11123 I went to Pitt and many players wern't able to hold on to his throws.  He was told to hold back a bit.

[cvjucla3]

The best quarterback ever!!!

[acarocacaro]

and i think to myself, when will we get another QB at least half of Marino's skills? GO FINS!!!

[tdrewman]

The best QB not to win a Super Bowl. When you think about Dan, you think of records, winner, come backs, tough, the special foundations he has created or contributes to, when you think Tom Brady, you think of 2 things, Super Bowl wins and which Super Model is having his Bastard Child.

[bjchit]

Man, you can just see how fast Marino's release was in the clips that are in slow mo. The ball just explodes out of his hand.

[Rennpanzer]

Dan Marino was once asked which one of his records meant the most to him. He said that the touchdown record mattered to him most because TD passes most directly contributed to winning.

[scorpien133]

Invadr1 I dont think Marino was ever really known to choke, he just never had a teamand you want to talk about a choker lets talk about Jim Kelly thats choking on it BIOTCH!!!

[TheGatorfan93]

nat moore nfl pro bowler from the gators,where's that helicopter catch?

[bjchit]

That was in 1984.

[azeron112]

It's only fitting this video has 13 rating on it. I wonder how many people saw that and didn't want to mess it up.

p.s. Dan Marino invented the Bullet Pass!!!!

[robertmastroianni]

Joe namath had a bullet pass in the 1960s

[invadr1]

really? did he also invent choking in the big game sucker

[407Derek]

No dumbass, he just got out played. Choking? Do you even watch football? Choking is Tom Brady in the superbowl vs the Giants or Jim Kelly in four consectutive superbowls he lost. Thats choking...

[invadr1]

Welcome to Spain bitches

[smashbr0s]

or brett favre last night and pretty much every other season besides 1993.

[someymehra]

@407Derek lol great comment!!!! and, I'm a Niners fan!

[migueldelajose13]

does anyone know where i can see the ENTIRE game of the dolphins vs the bears in the 85 season?

[chokeslam619pedigree]

1:02 Number 89 makes a touchdown and the refs hat falls of

[migueldelajose13]

whos 89?

[chokeslam619pedigree]

the person with jersey number 89, i don't know exactly who that is.

[Rennpanzer]

Nat Mooore

[chokeslam619pedigree]

ok thanks

[Rennpanzer]

#89 in these clips is Nat Moore. He had been in Miami for a number of years before Dan, and the "Marks Brothers" (Clayton & Duper) were drafted. There's a story that Moore had been considering retiring but changed his mind and stayed around, as a third receiver, for a couple more years when Marino revitalized the Dolphin passing game. He was a good, solid player, but you can tell he was nearing the end of his career when you see him get caught from behind in this video.

[migueldelajose13]

thx

[Michaelius95]

@Rennpanzer

Sure thing

[vccstudents]

This footage looks like all games from the '85 season. My favorite was Duper catching the ball one-handed. They beat the Jets in that game 21-17. It was the first of 7 straight wins, which gave Miami the ASC East. Along the way they kept the record safe by beating Chicago, a team they'd have beaten again had they not choked away the AFC Championship.

[IngridBergmanRocked]

There are many great players who never won "The Prize". And some playing today, that never will.

Still, that does not diminish their greatness.

Those great Buffalo Bills teams made it to the Super Bowl 4 times. Unfortunately, they never won it BUT they still were a GREAT TEAM.

Im so VERY Happy I got to see Dan the Man's induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame:D

[MikeAndolini]

I have to stop here. Arguing with you is like running in the Special Olympics! Even if I win I'm still RETARDED!

[Rennpanzer]

Mike, I don't think you're retarded at all. I just think you're trying to make an obfuscative argument about why a Hall of Fame QB wasn't worth a damn, based on the fact(s) that the teams he played on never won a Super Bowl and that he was once on the wrong end of a disagreement with his back-up over a slant route. Again, for my money, it's Dan Marino over Trent Dilfer every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

[MikeAndolini]

Yeah every Sunday except for Super Bowl Sunday, and I never said I thought Trent Dilfer was better I just said it doesn't mean shit if u don't win the Super Bowl. But I understand he's your guy.

Just too bad he's ringless. I'm a Bradshaw guy anyway. The point of the game is the RING. You don't get a Lombardi Trophy for stats.

You are kind of fun to argue with. I really like having to look up words to see what you are saying! Obfuscative?

[LegacyProductionsOrg]

optical illusion or proof of dan's amazing arm. at 2:46 is that ball lifting higher in the air somehow. amazing qb.

[bucketheadandfriends]

yea. its totally dans fault to give up 300+ yards to the 49ers in the super bowl. (Sarcasm)

dan is the man

[cmfisch978]

the ring argument is so stupid sometimes...I guess Trent dilfer is a better QB than dan Marino, using that logic.

[MikeAndolini]

Yes He IS!! Winning the RING is the only win that matters! The Game Is About Super Bowl Rings. If you don't have one you are nobody.

Marino was about Marino and the ring count shows it!

[Rennpanzer]

To write that "Marino was about Marino" shows that you don't know much about him or that team at all. Dan Marino was about one thing: WINNING. That was all he ever wanted to do and no one who didn't share that philosophy played for Don Shula very long. He's said, on numerous occasions, that he'd trade all of his records for one of those rings, and he's been saying that since before a lot of those records were broken. Trust me, Trent Dilfer's name will be fogotten long before Dan's will.

[Rennpanzer]

BTW, when I visited the HOF last summer, Marino's bust was on display - having been inducted in his first year of elegibility - Dilfer''s . . . not so much. You see, in the eyes of those who know and those who get it, greatness is more than just about championship rings. The contributions a player has made to the league and to the sport also matter.

[MikeAndolini]

How long do you remember the team that lost the superbowl?

[Rennpanzer]

. . .and on "D" : The Killer B's . . . DE - Kim Bokemper #58 NT - Bob Baumhower #73 DE - Doug Betters #75 OLB - A.J. Duhe #77 ILB - Charles Bowser #56 ILB - Ernie Rohn #55 OLB - Bob Brudzinski #59 SS - Glenn Blackwood #47 FS - Lyle Blackwood #42 CB - Don McNiel #28 CB - William Judson #49

[Rennpanzer]

Miami Dolphin team that lost to the 49ers about a quarter century ago (off the top of my head): QB - Dan Marino # 13 FB - Woody Bennett #34 HB - Tony Nathan # 22 WR - Mark Clayton #83 WR - Mark Duper #85 LT - Eric Lakso # 68 LG Bob (blongs in the HOF) Kuechenberg #67 (that I wore in HS & JC) C - Dwight Stephenson #57 RG - Ed Newman #64 RT - John Giesler #79

[MikeAndolini]

Renn- Marino was ALL about Marino. A great example of this is when Kosar was backing him up. Time out called-Marino wants to call a slant-Kosar tells him if you do it's going to get picked- He goes on to tell him how much he studied this team and even told him WHO would pick him off-Marino MFs Kosar-Marino throws a slant and gets picked for a TD-Marino returns to the sideline and MFs Kosar AGAIN! He's a class act! You bet he would trade records for rings but only because HE doesn't have one.

[MikeAndolini]

PS

The guy that picked him off was EXACTLY who Kosar said it would be!

[Rennpanzer]

At that point Dan had about a decade more experience with the Shula playbook than Bernie did and I wasn't on the sideline to witness their exchange. So, there's not much I can say/type. However, before you pass (no pun) final judgement, I have to ask if you ever saw the interview he gave when JJ came to town, in which Dan said that he'd told coach Johnson that if he [Jimmy] wanted to run the ball every down that would be fine with Dan, because all he wanted was to get back to the Super Bowl.

[MikeAndolini]

That story comes from Kosar himself. The decade with Shula's playbook has nothing to do with Kosar's talent for film study. If Kosar tells you Jr's gonna pick ya BELIEVE IT!

You are making my point about Marino. J.J. should have said: " Thank you very much! can I be in charge for awhile". It is the QB's job to run the plays he is told to run. Marino should have said, "what do you want from me sir". You just gave a great example of why he is RINGLESS.

[Rennpanzer]

I think you may have misunderstood what I wrote. When Marino made the comment about his willingnes to hand the ball off on every play, "what do you want from me (let's use coach instead of sir)" was basically what he was saying. But seriously Mike, if we can put the "ringless" rhetoric aside here, I should hope you can at least acknowledge that Dan Marino won a lot more football games for the Miami Dolphins than he ever lost.

[MikeAndolini]

Yes-he won games. Yes-he was fun to watch. But at the end of the day he's got nothing but his personal records to show for it.(Ringless) And it has alot to do with his big head. To MF a backup that had 3 division titles and helped another team to the superbowl shows just what a jackass he is. And I don't even like Kosar! But he had EXPERIENCE! (He did throw a GAME WINNER to send the Cowboys to a Super Bowl.

[bjchit]

You never saw Marino play if you think he just played for the records.

[Rennpanzer]

I've been to 3 Dan Marino games.  Unfortunately, none in Miami (would give just about anything to have been at the 1985 MNF classic against "da Bears" - in the Orange Bowl, no less). Having grown up a Dolphin fan, I've also watched this man on TV countless times. Coach Shula has referred to Dan's competitiveness and unequalled desire to win on numerous occasions. bj, you are dead-on, correct. #13 did NOT play for records.

[daniel79tj]

Marino was putting those numbers when the rules didnt favor passers so much as they do now.

This year in the playoffs there was only one team with a decent running game (Jets).

[bjchit]

Don't forget, he was doing it while everybody was expecting the Dolphins to throw the ball.

[kingofbeeer]

man! those throws are amazing! some of the best ive seen

[teldalin91]

jcane stfu if dan was on a good team like dallas or pittsburg he would have 5 rings only 1 quaterback eqauls dan and thats montana

[JeffMullis]

Nice footage. Dan 4 life

[SuperHero3]

Nobody played the QB position quite like Dan Marino. He didn't just do it at an all-pro hall of fame level, he did it in style. True South Beach Miami style. GO DOLPHINS!!!!

[cvjucla3]

That's my boy! Awesome footage! Marino is my favorite football player of all-time!!!

[Homiehawk8]

one of the greatests quarterbacks of all time 2nd only to #4 Brett Favre

[brianhutto]

awsome video. keep up the good work

[IngridBergmanRocked]

Love this video!!!!!

Dan was definitely the Man and Clayton, Duper, Moore and the other talented players who caught the ball.

Lets Go Fins 2008:D!

Surprise us fans, believe me we can take it.

[MasonsInquiries]

awesome!!

[uofmmido2]

best ever.

[c2jones]

Super job with this video. (I have so many old VHS tapes of Dan through the years, but nothing from 1984. I need to get NFL Films Yearbook version.) One day I'll teach myself how to edit and upload all those old clips/games. Even Dan would be amazed at the content.

[konichan1]

great video, very nice tribute.