Sports Steelers/NFL Photos Dulac's Picks ... Steelers Nation Dan Marino: A football player's journey to Canton Friday, August 05, 2005 By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette WESTON, Fla. Painted footballs from big games, awards, citations, trophies, plaques, mementoes and the enormous basketball shoe autographed by Shaq crowd the glass showcases in the trophy room at Dan Marino's South Florida home. Peter Diana, Post-Gazette (2004) Miami Dolphins Hall of fame coach Don Shula rates Dan Marino as the best pure passer who ever played the game. Click photo for larger image. None has a more special place of honor than the stack of 1960s Pirates baseball cards, nor the Bill Mazeroski bobblehead doll, nor the stamp of Willie Stargell, nor the football card of former Pitt quarterback John Congemi. Not far from the Johnny Unitas autographed trading card is an old IC Light beer bottle, part of the label replaced with a likeness of Dan Marino Sr., naked from the waist up, created by Dan Jr. in honor of his dad's 60th birthday. You can take the boy out of Pittsburgh and drop him into the tropical paradise of an 11,500-square foot Mediterranean dream home behind two security gates in this exclusive Fort Lauderdale suburb, but you can't take the Iron City out of him. | |
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