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...name is Shula," he replied squarely, like his jaw, like everything about him, in a manner that chilled the veterans. But it actually warmed Brown, who was attracted to the twinkle in this young man's eye, which begins to describe Shula's instant affection for Dan Marino...
...just had a twinkle in his eye," Shula says. In fact he has a twinkle all about him. He stands 6 ft. 3 in. but is made even taller by an eruption of sprung curls that overflow his football helmet in nervous homage to a bald father. Dan Marino Sr. drives a newspaper truck in Pittsburgh, and a charming tableau of their autumns at Pitt shows a man getting up at 3 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...
...been in the undefeated season of 1972, Shula and the Dolphins plainly were on a bright course again and did not plan to draft a quarterback. But, because of his senior slump, and the seamy rumors that have become football's automatic ex planation for any irregularities, Marino was still bobbing in the pool after five quarterbacks had been fished out: John Elway, Todd Blackledge, Jim Kelly, Tony Eason and Ken O'Brien. To Shula, it was an irresistible 27th pick. "Some people were saying that Dan had been 'pushing' the ball instead of throwing...
...didn't take long for Shula to go from Woodley to Marino. At the sixth week of last season, the quarterback with the twinkle in his eye lost his first start in such an entertaining style that the coach was moved to murmur later, as he had never muttered after a victory, "The thrill is back." Three and three then, the Dolphins finished the regular season 12 and 4 before losing a playoff to Seattle, and Marino was the first rookie quarterback ever anointed to open the Pro Bowl. He began this second year with five touchdown passes against...
...visitor remarks that nobody seems to worry about bears any more. "That's true," says Marino."They're not the problem they used to be. I went out the other night with a youngster who was visiting us and tried to find one. I couldn't do it, and finally I gave up and just showed him some tracks...