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Frank Robinson Jersey to a franchise-first title. No. 29: No Perfect Season - 1985 Week 13 Bears vs. Dolphins (Dec. 2, 1985) : NFL 100 Greatest Games on NFL (@NFL) Marino had 47 game-winning drives during his career. But his most famous one took place late in the 1994 season. Trailing the with under 30 seconds remaining, it was a sumed by everyone that Marino would spike the ball in order to stop the clock. But instead of spiking the ball, Marino hit for the game-winning, 8-yard touchdown pa s. The score capped off the Dolphins' improbable comeback from a 24-6 deficit. Each of Marino's four touchdown pa ses that day went to Ingram, including three in the fourth quarter alone. Marino finished the game with 359 yards on 31 of 44 pa sing. 90's FootballDoes it get any better than the Fake Spike game from Dan Marino? Pro Football Network (@PFN365) Making Marino's first AFC Championship Game extra special was the fact that it was played against his childhood team: the . Pittsburgh was one of the 26 teams who pa sed on Marino in the '83 draft despite questions at quarterback. Marino showed the Steelers what they were mi sing on Jan. 6, 1985. In what remains the
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Richard Bleier Jersey the list of 5,000-yard pa sers. The closest anyone had come to reaching 5,000 pa sing yards before Marino was former quarterback Dan Fouts, who threw for 4,802 yards three years earlier. Week 6, 1984 Dan Marino comes back to Pittsburgh and lights up the 31-7 Tomlin Reactions (@TomlinReactions) Marino developed an historic rapport that season with Clayton and Duper, who caught a combined 144 pa ses for 2,695 yards and 26 touchdowns. The trio would continue to pile up numbers together for the better part of a decade, as Duper and Clayton remain the franchise's career receiving leaders.
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