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Dan Marino

(born Sept. 15, 1961, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.) U.S. gridiron football quarterback. He was chosen by the Miami Dolphins in the first round of the 1983 NFL draft and went on to set all-time career records for passes completed (4,453 in 7,452 attempts), yards passing (55,416), and touchdown passes (385) and for 21 other categories. (Most of his career marks were later broken by Brett Favre.) In 1984 he became the first quarterback to pass for more than 5,000 yd in a single season (5,084) and the first to complete over 40 touchdown passes (48) in a season.

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