Fifteen years! It has been fifteen years — to the day — since Dan Marino was immortalized in Canton, Ohio as a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Marino, who retired from the Dolphins in 2000 and owned every major passing record at the time of his retirement, was a first-ballot inductee who helped serve as a trailblazer for the game from a “grind it out” offensive display to a high flying, aerial assault driven league.
Forever immortalized.
On this day in 2005, @DanMarino was inducted into the @ProFootballHOF.#FinsUp pic.twitter.com/zYr25aDESv
— Miami Dolphins (@MiamiDolphins) August 7, 2020
Marino’s induction was alongside former San Francisco 49ers QB Steve Young, offering fans with an impressive 1-2 punch of all-time quarterbacks to go into Canton alongside one another. The Dolphins have struggled to find their “next” Dan Marino, but fans are hopeful that 2020 1st-round pick Tua Tagovailoa can work his way out of Marino’s looming shadow and usher in a new era of winning for the Dolphins after all of these years.
Happy anniversary, Dan! To help commemorate Marino’s induction, here is his acceptance speech from fifteen years ago today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTMyt74Ab5E