Dan Marino never won a Super bowlBut the legend of the dolphins of Miami and the quarter of the renowned temple NFL draft.
In fact, many fans of the steelers of a certain age (including my father) have still not overcome that Pittsburgh died Marino, who, in the 1984 AFC championship, launched 421 yards and four affected while conducting the dolphins at a 45-28 victory.
“Tell him not to let go,” said Marino smiling in an interview in 2024 with CBS Sports when he was informed of the Steelers fan who has never forgiven his team to transmit Marino.
Marino recently did a little further, saying that he would have won everything if his childhood team selected him in 1983 NFL draft.
“By thinking about their teams, I would probably have won a few Super Bowls,” Marino said on the current defensive sets of Steelers Cameron Heyward’s podcast. “I really do it, because of the defense they had.”
Pittsburgh’s decision to transmit Marino is by far the greatest error in the history of the franchise. It was a mistake that the president of the time and the future temple of fame Dan Rooney tried not to occur.
After initially transmitted Marino, Rooney (who died in 2017) said During a 2014 interview For a long time Nfl Journalist John Clayton advised him to exchange the quarter-Arrière Cliff Stoudt for a choice of draft which would have given the Steelers a second chance to write Marino. Rooney liked the idea and presented it to the team’s brain Trust.
“I went into the room and gave them the idea,” recalls Rooney. “They said,” Who did you speak to? “And I was so stupid, I said,” John Clayton “. Well, it was immediately the end of that.
Rooney did not get Marino, but he made sure that his team did not make the same mistake twice when Pittsburgh was able to write another best hope of QB two decades later. In 2019, the longtime doctor of Steelers, Jim Bradley, told Ben Roethlisberger, which had told him Rooney in the Steelers recovery room in 2004 when Pittsburgh was supported towards the writing of Philip Rivers.
“No, it’s not our guy,” recalls Bradley via athletics. “I want the kid Roethlisberger to Miami. The kid is a leader, this kid is a winner. … You just wait, it’s our guy.”
The Steelers wrote Roethlisberger after falling with the 11th choice in total. Pittsburgh, with Roethlisberger as a quarterrier, won two Super Bowls, three AFC titles, eight division titles and went to the playoffs 12 times during the Roethlisberger career in 18 years that we will be immortalized at the renowned professional football temple.
Why didn’t the Steelers do Marino in 1983? The story tells that the Steelers coach and the future temple of reputation Chuck Noll wanted to rebuild his team with the defense, in the same way that the Steelers dynasty of the 1970s began with the selection of future Hall of Fame Takele Joe Greene in 1969, Noll’s first project as a Steelers trainer. Pittsburgh followed suit in 1983 when they selected Texas Tech Nose Tackle Gabe Rivera. Rivera recorded two bags in his first six games, but his career match at a quick and tragic end after being paralyzed in a car accident.
Marino was finally selected by the dolphins six spots after the Steelers drafted Rivera. He led the dolphins to a Super bowl At the end of his second second, but Miami fell into a superior team of the 49ers led by the future quarter-rear of the renowned temple Joe Montana. It would be the first and the last Super Bowl during the career of the Marino renowned temple.
As Marino alluded during his interview with Heyward, the Steelers had good defenses for the majority of his 17th career, which was fully spent in Miami. Pittsburgh’s defense was particularly good in the 1990s, while the unit led six consecutive appearances in the playoffs which included three match appearances for the title of the AFC over a period of four years.
The Steelers also appeared in a Super Bowl during this period, but fell into Cowboys largely because of the team quarter game. Pittsburgh survived the strongly favored cowboys, but two interceptions set up the two affected Dallas in the second half. The Steelers lost, 27-17, despite the fact that the cowboys succeeded and by holding the future ball carrier Emmitt Smith at only 49 yards on the ground.
Would Pittsburgh have won several Super Bowls if she had repeated Marino? We will never know with certainty, but it is sure to assume that the chances of the Steelers to win a championship during this period would have been considerably better, and Marino may not be known today as the biggest quarter to never win a super bowl.
