Dan Marino says he would have ‘probably won a couple Super Bowls’ if the Steelers drafted him

Dan Marino never won a CraterBut Miami Dolphin Legend and Hall of Fame Quarterback has to win an AFC title against his childhood team – in Pittsburgh Steelers – who immediately regret not selected in the previous year NFL Draft.

In fact, many steelers fans of a certain age (between my father) until I got over the fact that Pittsburgh passed in the Marino, in 1984 AFC champdowns with leading to 421 yards and four.

“Tell her to let her” a smiling marine said in 2024 interview with CBS sports when I told the yet-upset steelers fan who will not be forgotten his team to pass on the marine.

Marino recently took her step further, saying that he would, if all, if his childhood team delegates him in 1983 NFL Draft.

“Looking at their teams, I probably was won a couple on the bowls,” Marino recently said in the current steelers defensive tackling Cameron Heyward’s podcast. “I really do for your defense.”

Pittsburgh is a plan to cross the marine is far the biggest mistake in the freedom of the story. It was a mistake that then-steelers president and future hall of famer Dan Rooney attempt to stop it.

After the beginning of the passage in the Marino, Rooney (who has passed in 20117) said: In the 2014 interview is longtime NFL Reporter John Clayton Council to trade quarterback cliff stoudt to draft pick as it would be a second chance to catch the marine. Rooney liked the idea of ​​fixed to the steelers of war in the room.

“I came into the room and I have given them an idea,” Rooney recalled. “And he said, ‘Who will you talk about?” And it is so diseased, I said, John Clayton. Well, that immediately is the end of that. That would have been a great trade. ”

Rooney does not get marine, but he made sure that his pain did not make the same mistake twice with Pittsburgh in a situation to the draft other top QB prospect two decades later. In 2019, Longtime Steelers Orthopedic doctor Jim Bradley to Ben Roethlisberger, what had Rooney to him inside Steelers’ catch room in 2004 with Pittsburgh is alleging to Drafting Philip Rivers.

“Neither, that’s not our guy,” Bradley recalled Rooney to: The way athletes. “I want a kid roethlisberger from Miami. The Kids’ A leader that kid’s a winner. … you just wait and see that our guy. “

Steelers and Draft Roethlisberger after fell with the 11th overall pick. Pittsburgh, with Roethlisberger to their quarterback, won the two on Schlahls, three AFC titles, eight division titles and the playoffs 12 times a roethlisberg’s 18-year career that one will be a day of immortalized in the hall and a day in the report in the Hall.

Why don’t Steelers Draft Marino in ’83? The story goes, the next-steelers coach and future hall of a Fuen Chuck Noll wanted to rebuild their team with the defense, the same as the steelers, in 1969 report with the Steelers, Noll’s First Draft Steelers Coach. Pittsburgh followed suit in 1983 when you graduated Texas tech nose tackle gabe rivera. Rivera recorded two bags in the first six games, but its life game at a quick and tragic ending behind each paralyzed in a car crash.

Marino ultimately selects the dolphins six spots behind the steelers drafted Rivera. And brought dolphins to Crater Secondly, the second end of Miami superior 49ers team who is led by a hall report Quinterback Joe Montana. It would be the first and last on the marine in the hall of the report of a career.

In order to marrin in the interview with a heyward, steelers was good defenses to the majority of his 17 years, which is all in Miami. Pittsburgh’s defense is the most good in the 1990s, such as unit spearheunded six consecutive playoff appearances that included three AFC title game appearances on four years of space.

Steelers appeared in a single live at the time, even, but it fell to the cowboys wide for the team’s quarterback to play. Pittsburgh de-gained seriously-favored cowboys, but two interceptions set up both Dallas’ second half of touchdowns. The Steelers lost, 27-17, despite the e-gets in the cowboys and holding future hall report running back emmitt Smith to just 49 passes.

How Pittsburgh won multiple on the bowls had a drafted marine? We’ll never know for sure, but it’s safe to assume that steelers’ odds of winning a championship at that time have been somewhat better.