Dan Marino

Dan Marino is the kind of quarterback who makes you rethink what the position can look like — a pure passer from Pittsburgh who arrived in Miami in 1983 and immediately made everyone forget the word "pocket" had ever implied a limitation. Watching him dissect defenses with that lightning-quick release was something else; the guy set passing records that stood for decades and won the NFL Offensive Player of the Year in just his second season. The one thing that haunts his legacy, of course, is the Super Bowl ring that never came — he played 17 seasons, threw for over 61,000 yards, and got exactly one shot at the title, losing to San Francisco after the 1984 season. Still, he's a Pro Football Hall of Famer for a reason, and honestly, watching him play made the lack of a ring feel like the sport's failure, not his.

Name (English)

Dan Marino

Name (Japanese)

ダン・マリーノ

Reading

だん・まりーの

Born

September 15, 1961 (age 64)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Ox

Origin

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Height

193 cm

Occupation

NASCAR team owner / actor / American football player / sports analyst / restaurateur

High school

Central Catholic High School

University

University of Pittsburgh

Awards & achievements

• 1984 AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year Award
• 1995 Best Comeback Athlete ESPY Award
• 1998 Walter Payton Man of the Year Award
• Pro Football Hall of Fame

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.danmarino.com
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8E

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• NASCAR team owner
• actor
• American football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.