Dan Marino
American football player (born 1961)
Daniel Constantine Marino Jr. is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 17 seasons with the Miami Dolphins. He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers, earning first-team All-American honors in 1981. Marino was the last quarterback taken in the first round of the famed quarterback class of 1983. He held or currently holds dozens of NFL records associated with the quarterback position, and despite never being on a Super Bowl–winning team, he is recognized among the greatest quarterbacks in American football history.
“Dan Marino” enters the record as american football player (born 1961). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Marino, American and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1981 and 1983.
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This entry incorporates text from “Dan Marino” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.