Dan Marino was widely known as one of the greatest passing quarterbacks of all time, leading the NFL in passing yards five times and setting numerous records.<\/p>\n
MIAMI, FL – NOVEMBER 02: Dan Marino #13 of the Miami Dolphins warms up before a NFL football game against the Houston Oilers on November 2, 1986 at Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Mitchell Layton\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n
The 1984 NFL MVP and seven-time All-Pro could also chunk a baseball. In fact, the Miami Dolphins legend was also drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 1979 MLB Draft.<\/p>\n
Marino\u2019s first-ever baseball card will be featured in the 2025 Bowman Draft set released Jan. 14.<\/p>\n
Topps <\/p>\n
To celebrate Marino\u2019s first baseball card, Topps produced a special ad campaign posing the question: What if Marino was the premier two-sport athlete of the 1980s? The \u201cwhat-if\u201d campaign imagines Marino playing such sports as baseball, basketball, hockey and tennis, while also becoming a popular marketing pitchman for such products as men\u2019s wear, all-weather tires and shampoo. It even supposes Marino as an actor.<\/p>\n
The ad concludes with Marino waking up from a daydream beside his pool and finding his Bowman rookie card next to him.<\/p>\n
Topps has produced previous Bowman commercials featuring similar ads starring fellow NFL legends Tom Brady and John Elway. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The 90-second ad opens in a boardroom where an advertising executive presents his \u201cMari-Knows\u201d campaign with Marino as a multi-sport star. Topps uses AI to place Marino in multiple sports, and then shows him in the iconic shirtless Bo Jackson pose with football pads and a baseball bat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The 2025 Bowman Draft set features three special Marino cards with different autograph inscriptions\u2014 \u201cMari-Knows Baseball,\u201d \u201cLaces Out,\u201d and \u201cThere is no defense against my perfect swing,\u201d a reference to his famous quote, \u201cThere is no defense against a perfect pass.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Marino was widely known as one of the greatest passing quarterbacks of all time, leading the NFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,11751,69011,69012,69013,17252,1082,30942],"class_list":{"0":"post-520432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-baseball-cards","10":"tag-bowman-draft-baseball","11":"tag-dan-marino","12":"tag-football-cards","13":"tag-miami-dolphins","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-topps"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115895288691800825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}