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Recording 22 touchdown passes last season, although Incumbent David Woodley was not quite dislodged until the sixth game, Marino became the only rookie quarterback ever elected to start the Pro Bowl. Throwing 55 in 18 games this year, he displaced longtime Record Holders George Blanda and Y.A. Tittle, who took it manfully: "You can't criticize a trapper who's got the skins on the wall." Marino puts Roger Staubach in mind of Hockey Prodigy Wayne Gretzky. By the CBS-New York Times calculations, Marino is already the country's favorite N.F.L. player (Chicago's Walter Payton second, Montana third...
PRECOCIOUS SOPHOMORES. Passing for a record 48 touchdowns, wonderful Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins erased George Blanda's and Y.A. Tittle's old 36. Los Angeles Rams Runner Eric Dickerson raised O.J. Simpson...
...four TD passes by the second-year quarterback from Pittsburgh gave him 36 in 13 games, tying him with Y.A. Tittle of the 1963 New York Giants and George Blanda, who accomplished the feat with the Houston Oilers of the American Football League in 1961. Both Tittle and Blanda did it in 14 games. AFL records are recognized as officials NFL marks...
...every morning to deliver personally news of his boy in the Post-Gazette. The Marino home is not far from downtown, the beery old neighborhood of the steely old prizefighter Billy Conn, so Dan comes from the same state and state of mind as Johnny Unitas, George Blanda, Joe Namath, Joe Montana and possibly the quarterback position itself...
...fallible and yet passed for 422 yds. Such is the extent of expectations now. His 3,094 yds. passing have already outdone Griese's best year, while 29 touchdown passes imperil the 21-year-old N.F.L. record of Y.A. Tittle and the 23-year-old A.F.L. mark of Blanda, 36 apiece...