NFL Urban Legends: Dan Marino, Drug Rumors and the Draft-Day Slide

August 11, 2015   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

Editor's note: This is the fifth installment in Bleacher Report's series on NFL urban legends. Part 1 looked at Bo Jackson's hard-to-believe 40-yard-dash time, Part 2 at Ray Guy's purported helium-aided punts, Part 3 at the NFL's first 1,000-yard season, Part 4 at Donovan McNabb and the much-talked-about Super Puke.
 
The 1983 NFL draft was a turning point in American sports history, the event that suddenly got casual fans interested in the once-dreary business of announcing which amateur player would play for which professional team. 
It was a perfect confluence of circumstances: a historic class of college greats, a rival league adding intrigue, and a new medium—cable television—eager to turn the recitation of names into programming gold.
It's no wonder that it has become the stuff of legend. But it is also the stuff of urban legend.
Modern fans find it hard to believe that a future Hall of Fa...

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