Originally posted by pasodoc9er:
I watched both at Stanford stadium, sitting on the Miami portion of the field, up midway. Great seats and got to see the duel. I will say this. Marino was great, but that day, he had a helluva time throwing when he was on his back a fair amount of time. Our D just ground him up. Their OL may not have been great but our front 7 just mauled Marino. Joe had protection, and Marino didn't. Don't recall what he threw for that day, but man did he ever spend a lot of time on his back. I bet he had bruises everywhere for a week. We were truly awesome, as in awe inspiring.
We had a team-Miami had Marino and his wrs. That is it. No D, no running back. We shut down the running gm and teed off on him. Their TE was not anything either. If he had our D and our running game, his numbers would go down, but they would be an even scarier team in the long run and would have made it back to the SB and might have won several.