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Dan Marino, Miami
		Who is the best athlete ever to play for Miami Dan Marino Larry Csonka Bob Griese Alonzo Mourning Gary Sheffield View Results
Marino's stats are so overwhelming that they deserve the sort of attention that usually comes only with winning the Big One. He owns or has tied 24 NFL records, including most yards passing in a season (5,084), most touchdown throws in a season (48), most consecutive seasons with 20 or more TD passes (eight) and most games with 400 or more yards passing (10) ... His biography, statistics and comparisons to other quarterbacks take up 22 1/2 pages of the Dolphin media guide, revealing one of the most detailed background searches on a public figure this side of a CIA dossier. "I told my intern, 'Take all these numbers and games -- I don't even want to see you for a week -- and show me what you get,"' says Dolphin director of media relations Harvey Greene. "It's how we found the Marino-Clayton record for touchdown passes and the durability record. The stuff in there is not for trivia. It's there because it's so damn amazing." --From "His Time Is Passing", Sports Illustrated, November 4, 1991, by Rick Telander

Photograph by John Iacono