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There was one question in the beginning, not just puzzling but murky. How could almost every other team have been so wrong about Marino? "You can't predict that anyone is going to be better than anyone has ever been," Shula / says, a stunning sentence. "Before the college draft, everybody in the league calls up everybody else and lies to each other about which players we all like." As for the 1983 class, Miami agreed with the rest that the clear prize among five or six significant quarterback prospects was Stanford's John Elway, who broke in harshly last season...
...urging of feature writers running out of angles, scientists have been put on the case to find out if Marino represents some genetic or neurological improvement in people. Around Miami, the mystery of his arm has been a welcome new intrigue, not to mention a cheerful national counterimage to Miami Vice. Theories have run from abundant fast-twitch muscle fibers to advanced eye- search patterns to the suspicious breadth of his thumb. What does the monster think? Marino takes a stiff Frankenstein step and laughs. "I dunno...
...your ear,' he told me, 'don't wind up. Do it that way now, even though it's harder, and when you're bigger and stronger, you'll be glad.' " Asked if his dad, who drives a newspaper truck in Pittsburgh, happened to have a particular love of sports, Marino replies perfectly, "He happened to have a particular love of his children." For a happy period, their work and school shifts coincided. "He would hit me grounders, or we'd throw the football. 'Don't think you have to go out for any teams for me,' he'd say. Even...
While Shula is reasonably analytical, he finds Marino largely self-evident. "He's an amazing young man, but he's not amazed with himself. Everything Dan does just seems to fit him. Frankly, we haven't been questioning too many things about him. Last year, when he was 22, the coaches didn't sit around worrying how he was managing to command the huddle or the offense. Nothing he has done has seemed out of character or against his nature. 'You're not ready for this, Dan.' 'You can't do that, Dan, it's only your second year...
...rumor was the usual one, drugs, and it was so prevalent that in the presence of Pitt Coach "Foge" Fazio, Marino was tested and passed. Still unconvinced that three losses in twelve games constitutes disgrace, Marino looks back at his 42-6 college career with no expression of regret. "Go to high school and college in my own district. Be the starting quarterback. Have a chance at a national championship. I thought it would be a lot of fun to do that--and it was. You're not always going to be successful, but everything's worked out great." Quarterbacks...