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#13, Forever the Face of the Miami Dolphins

Most people determine who is the best Qb by what they got and what records they beat. To me the best Qb is determine by making the most of what you got.

For people like Brady, Montana, and others not having success would almost be impossible. I always said Brady success does not come from mostly him but rather his team and last year Matt prove that right almost winning the division. With Dan i honestly do believe he was alone on the field never having a player like rice or moss to give that ring.

Dan made his whole team good with him there. Without him we may of almost been the worst team from the mid 80's to 2000's. Dan also had very bad knees and if the same happen to brady he would not have the heart to stay and play like Dan did. I know you can't say people that are good at their sport are like the Jordan of Basketball, but I think Marino is. Dan is the best qb hands down.
 
He really was the best.

If I may get off-topic, I always though 13 was a magical, sacred number for QB's. If you're wearing 13 as a QB, you better be good, at least, thats what I think sort of. You don't see too many guys wearing it, Maybe that means something.

The Only 2 guys I can think of off the top of my head are Kurt Warner and Danny Kanell, who used to play for the giants. Kurt Warner is pretty awesome; and I don't believe Danny Kanell was that good.
 
Dan Marino was a great Quarterback, a great father and husband, a great citizen and seem's to be a very good business man....but he isn't "the face of the Dolphins"!

He was a great player in his era, but playing in a era doesn't make him the team...every era will have it's great player, it's so called "face"...as it was with the 70's players, it will be with the future Dolphin players.

No one player made the Dolphins perfect...it was a total team effort. Dan Marino was a great Quarterback...but he would be the first to say that without the great O-line protecting him...his great receivers..getting open and catching the football...perhaps he wouldn't be the great QB he became.
 
fishypete,

Dan Marino is without question the face of the Miami Dolphins. When you think Dolphins who is the first player you think of? Cleo Lemon? Nope, Dan Marino
 
Dan Marino is my favorite football player of all-time.

But, I hope, for the sake of the Dolphins organization, we actually start winning some Super Bowls.

Dan Marino was successful on the Dolphins while he was here, but the team was not. I don't want people to only think of him when they think of the Fins. I want people to relate us to "The Ronnie and Ricky Show" after they've pounded through consecutive Superbowl wins... that's what I want people to think of when they think of the Dolphins. =)
 
I would think Don Shula would be the "face of the Dolphins"

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dan is the reason i started to watch football! he was and is the best i think
 
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That is great how you got him to sign your jersey like that. I just remember the intensity that Dan played with and how quickly he spotted his receivers, whether it was Duper or Clayton or someone else, and the ball was already gone by the time the defenders came close to him.

I just wish so much that he could have won a Superbowl. I hate that the Front Office never got him the defensive players, running backs and others to get the team over the top. But it still doesn't take away how I feel....Dan was the best ever. I am just happy the Steelers and other teams didn't draft him in the first round of the 1983 Draft. :whew!:
 
RealDriscoll said:
fishypete,

Dan Marino is without question the face of the Miami Dolphins. When you think Dolphins who is the first player you think of? Cleo Lemon? Nope, Dan Marino
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Thats your opinion...and I gave mine.

By the way...When I think of the Dolphins...I see many great players....some in the HOF...and some that should be in the HOF....I see many great Dolphin players...not just one and thats not even touching on Shula. Without Shula...there's no Superbowls...no great players and very likely no Marino.
 
fishypete, how can you not understand that if the first player you think of is not cleo lemon then dan marino must be the face of the franchise forever?
excuse me, there's sticky crap in my eye.
 
Both Dan Marino and Don shula would be the faces of the miami dolphins. The best coach of alltime and one of the best pure passers if not the best of alltime. They are well missed.
 
Best way to settle this argument is the a ton of hot chicks that think nothing of football and just get happy when someone makes a touchdown.

As weird as it may be a lot of young dolphins fans do not know who don, Bob, jake scott, Larry, morris, and others like that are. :(

i have a 12 year old cousin that is a dolphins fan and i quiz him all the time and gave him videos to look at and books. Without me he would of not know anything more then dan marino was a qb and we are the only team to go undefeated.

I have seen a lot of girls with Marino jerseys on and I go up to talk to them, saying to myself finially a sexy girl that loves football... plus the dolphins, and wont even know who the dolphins are, but they can tell you who dan was.
 
I grew up in Orlando from the Early 70's to the Early 90's and one afternoon some friends of mine and I were playing basketball at a new community center in the middle of a newly built housing development called Huckleberry. After a half hour or so we see these county vehicles pulling up and some people walking around with ballons and such. We of course were curious and walked over to watch. Turns out it was Dan Marino with some county big wigs, there to do an official opening of the center. Dan actually took the time to come over afterwards and talk to us for about 20 min's and shoot some hoops as well. It was one of the most memorable days of my life and for him to take time to come over and spend some time with us like that is unheard of in today's athlete. There are many faces of the Miami Dolphins, but, if there was a Mt. Rushmore, his would be one of the four without a doubt. Along with Don Shula, Joe Robbie, and Bob Greise. Sure, there are many other great HOF's from the teams of the 70's and the perfect season team, Czonka, Bonacotti, Scott, Morris, and others, but, those four were most instrumental in Miami Dolphins History.
 
72champagne,

Good attempt at sarcasm my man. Unfortantly I don't know who you are or understand your nonsense. Cleo Lemon was an example.. When you think of the Miami Dolphins you think of Dan Marino. Players will always get more due than the coaches and Shula was a great coach but Marino was an ever better player
 
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