Marino, Bowden, Beuerlein

September 11, 1988|The Morning Call

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- Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino has already thrown more touchdown passes than half the quarterbacks in the Professional Football Hall of Fame. - A colt named Friendly Ed, which races on West Coast tracks, is owned by Ed Friendly. - Florida State football coach BobbyBowden likes orange soda and peanuts, so he pours his peanuts into a bottle of orange soda. This way he can drink the orange soda and chew the peanuts with one swig. - Players ask for all kinds of extras in their negotiations. Mark Duper asked Dolphins owner Joe Robbie for 100 Super Bowl tickets. Robbie said no. - Los Angeles Raiders quarterback Steve Beuerlein was six years old when just-retired Raiders signal caller Jim Plunkettthrew his first NFL pass.

- Now that Joe Morgan got his salary hiked - from $45,000 as a Boston Red Sox coach to $190,000 as the Sox manager - he'll give up his wintertime employment, driving a snowplow for the Massachusetts highway department.

- Bill "Spaceman" Lee, the former Red Sox free thinker, pitched in three semi-pro leagues this summer, in Wisconsin, Vermont and Nova Scotia.

- People laughed at Eddie Edwards, the inept bespectacled British skier at the Winter Olympics, but now he has signed $700,000 in endorsements and is chuckling all the way to the you-know-where.

- One of the axioms in the National Football League seems to be that the Phoenix Cardinals draft poorly. It needed defensive help and of six defensive draft picks, first-round linebacker Ken Harvey