He Faked His Resume. He Signed with the Seahawks Because of It

During the middle of the 1977 NFL season, the Seattle Seahawks, who were thin at running back following a recent injury, took a look at former Minnesota Vikings and New York Jets running back Ed Marinaro. However, after Marinaro failed the workout for being slow and out of shape, he signed with the team a few days later... and you're not gonna believe how that came about
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[@americanidol30]

This is also the same Ed Marinaro who played Coach Marty Daniels on Blue Mountain State. Give me a Hell! Give me a Yeah!

[@Official_Kings_Versus]

🎶 Stand up right now ! 🎶

[@AutismSingsHD]

Hell! Yeah!

[@wolftwinrockyviking]

if you had a nickel for every video you made on a player or HC faking their resume to get the job, you’d have two nickels. which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice!

[@zack9777]

Perry the platapus

[@CuntryRebel]

Because it’s a natural thing to lie about. It’s really no big deal either way. It’s up to the team front office, trainers, to verify.

[@trixonic6934]

Those are the only 2 who were exposed for faking their resume while dozens of others are taking it to their grave so we’ll never get a accurate measurement

[@miketemple7686]

Marinaro heard what Hanratty did by just declaring he was on the Tampa Bay Bucs team, so he went the same route. F-it I declare I ran a 4.7 in the 40. If you want to know more about the Hanratty Tampa Declaration, click the card in the upper right corner.😂

[@DolFan316]

A whole lot of people randomly declaring things and having them accepted as fact these days. Just sayin'.

[@barbaracaroll]

He was also on the tv show Laverne and Shirley

[@aVerveQuest]

Considering what a league minimum contract was at the time they didn't have a lot to lose

[@aVerveQuest]

To be fair I really wonder what the typical running back in the 1970s ran in the 40 at any given stage of their career. I mean Jack Lambert with 225 playing little linebacker and smoking cigarettes, and he was HOF

[@chrisguardiano6143]

This is very similar to what happened with another Seattle team in the Sounders 6 years later though with the head coaching position. Heading into the 1983 NASL season, the Sounders were looking for a new coach after new owners came in (who knew nothing about soccer I might add) & fired Alan Hinton the previous coach even though he had led them to the Soccer Bowl (the NASL title game) the previous season. After a quick search, the Sounders settled on Laurie Calloway to be their coach for the 1983 season. The Sounders still hired Calloway even though he lied to them about his coaching experience. Instead of coaching for 4 years at the professional level like he mentioned on his resume, Calloway actually coached only 2 years & those 2 years were at two different teams. Like Marinaro, Calloway was determined to coach in the NASL & since no other clubs in the league had a coaching vacancy, he decided on the Sounders. This turned out to be a total disaster as the Sounders finished 12-18 in 1983, missing the playoffs with a roster full of rookies due to the owners basically selling all of the Sounders best players from the previous season. Not only that, the team was in serious financial trouble as players & coaches went unpaid for months & fan support declined rapidly due to the owners jacking up ticket prices by 75% & doing things like scheduling 8:30pm kickoffs for midweek home games. It came as no surprise that the Sounders folded immediately after the season ended due to all of this & the Sounders name would not return to the top league in American soccer until 2009 when the current version joined MLS.

[@Unknown-bq9id]

Earlier in 1977, the Seattle Seahawks traded the #2 pick to Dallas for the #14 pick and three second-round picks. Who did Dallas select with the #2 pick? RB Tony Dorsett. You might have heard of him... Imagine how good the Seahawks could have been with Dorsett (to be fair, Dorsett had refused to play for the Seahawks, so he forced their hand, more or less)...

[@mgb4692]

I brought this up in the JG9 vid on the Turkey Day 80 massacre--which the Hawks went into with a washed Lawrence McCutcheon as their lead back. It's quite possible that Dorsett might have had the same injury trajectory as Sherman Smith (who was actually very good for a few years), becoming a what-if like the Hawks would eventually have in Curt Warner. Dorsett also went to an OL that had Rayfield Wright and Pat Donovan among others, in Seattle he would have had a slightly older Norm Evans. Advantage Star.

[@davidroberts7282]

I think its more probable to argue maybe he would've had a Curt Warner-esque career but maybe ended up with 2-3,000 more career rushing yards then Warner ended up with. Dorsett certainly excelled and was considered one of the NFL's beat RB's of his era with a great, then a very good O-line as Dallas kind of gradually declined in the early 80's after Staubach's retirement and the rest of league using Dallas and Landry's old methods and Cowboys not advancing with the time as the 80's progressed. In an alternate scenario that involves Dorsett in Seattle, its kind of the reverse as Seahawks got better as the 80's progressed and they already had Steve Largent, and with a very good, emerging duel-purpose RB like Dorsett, Tony is given a lot a much bigger role in the offense then what he was in Dallas his rookie season and if he had succeeded, I think the carry over effect would've seen Jim Zorn probably having a better, longer career then he did and he's the one leading Seattle to those playoff victories in early-to-mid 80's, not Dave Krieg. By the early 80's, both Seattle's O-line and defense overall were a lot better with Joe Nash, Jacob Green, and Jeff Bryant on the D-line and Kenny Easley and Eugene Robinson in the secondary and Keith Butler leading the middle. I think most of these great second-generation Seahawks players end up on the team anyway and it's plausible to imagine a still-viable Dorsett leading further into the post-season. As great of a duel-purpose RB as Curt Warner, after his 1984 Opening Day injury vs. Browns, even though he came back for three more Pro Bowl seasons, he never was the same explosive offensive weapon he had been in his rookie season of 1983. Then again, maybe he reaches 10,000 career rushing yards if he's lucky and plays close to a decade in Seattle and doesn't suffer a career-altering Billy Sims-like ACL injury, even with barely 10,000 career rushing yards and 12,500 total yards, I think Tony Dorsett might still be waiting for Canton like Jacob Green and Joe Nash arguably still are and that's down to the fact that Seattle, moreso back then then now, was geographically isolated and over-looked and even if you had a HOF-CALIBER career with the Mariners, Seahawks of the late 70's and 80's, unless you had such a great, outstanding career like Largent did where keeping you out of Canton is absolutely stupid and petty, then any borderline HOFers were forgotten and ignored due to Seattle'a geographic isolation.

[@SeanP7195]

Yes, but Dorset declared he didn’t want to play for Seattle. They were like the Colts with Elway.

[@briannearey8902]

I always got confused with Ed Marinaro and Vince Ferragamo 😂

[@marcus813]

If he hadn't suffered that foot injury as a Jet, I wonder if he would've still gotten into acting later on. He might be better known for his acting career than for anything he did in the NFL at this point.

[@wendydelisse9778]

Olympic athletes sometimes use a system of "peaking". Full muscle recovery can take about 6 days after tough bout of physical exertion. After another couple of days, a lot of the tendons tissue will be in top shape, but after that, too much rest means the muscles start deteriorating. Ligaments take longer to reach peak strength, and bones even longer. The peaking system used by an Olympic athlete mostly depends on the particular event. 7 days after the previous official tryout is around peak time for an improved time on a 40-yard run. The muscles will be good, and the tendons will be good. The guy really could have got a half second faster on his 40-yard run in 7 days, if that's what he had his focus on. If so, then a training regiment existed that he could be made to be fast enough to be a backup running back in the event of 7 days notice of such a need, and that's what the Seattle Seahawks were wanting. In case of an injury to another running back in one game, he could potentially be then told to put almost his entire focus on "doing whatever it takes" to get his speed up for the next game a week later.

[@Nitero_]

another banger, love it, thanks!

[@randytracy1742]

I remember ed marinaro-he was a better actor than he was as a pro football player-he was good on hill street blues and I don’t doubt his ability! 😮😮😮😮😅😅

[@AnthonyArgyros]

He won the Maxwell Award in college and was a solid running back.

[@jerrygibbons3772]

Sir much respect to the work you put out, just wanted to let you know you are doing a fantastic job and getting me hooked, thanks for your hard work

[@lorenzobeckmann3736]

photo of him & Jacqlyne Smith in his Eldorado is better than spiking the ball

[@jackmessick2869]

Jack Patera was an assistant coach for the Vikings before taking the Seahawks job, so it makes sense Patera would contact someone he knew. But sounds like Marinaro was delusional.

[@jamesbowman8138]

The late 1970s italian was the thing in sports and hollywood

[@crackerjack9320]

Could I get a Pastorini and Marinaro sandwich?!

[@ronsmac]

Tarkenton loved the short pass to the rbs.

[@aVerveQuest]

Bud had a WC offense before Walsh

[@davidroberts7282]

It was similar but it wasnt as wider open and didnt utilize the TE option as much as Walsh's offenses in Cincinnati under Paul Brown and later in San Francisco and also with "Air Coryell" record-breaking 1978-82 San Diego Chargers offenses. Another big reason why Minnesota lost those Super Bowls was due to being out-coached, but also, all of those AFC teams that beat them had bigger, taller, more physical O-lines and D-lines that were a lot more physical, aggressive, and nastier. Particularly the last 3 AFC SB opponents they played who bullied and dominated their smaller, compact LB's and D-linemen so effectively Alan Page got ejected for throwing a punch at former Notre Dame teammate Bob Kuechenberg. One of the most mild-mannered, intelligent, knowledgable, calmer players and a future Supreme Court justice. It must have taken a lot to get under his skin for him to lose his temper.

[@chadwickwhite6107]

Ed Marinaro lied 39.6 times in a ROW!!!!

[@nickbrennan8979]

I assume you meant near half-century long history, but you said near decade long. Bit of an oopsie there.

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

Oh crap did I say half decade? Yep that was supposed to be half century

[@lambert581]

@@OfficialJaguarGator9 Jack Patera brother is Ken Patera a former WWE Intercontinental Champion & had matches with Andre the Giant.

[@wingedbuffalo4670]

Why is this a big deal? An expansion team only in its second season of operation suddenly later in the season has a need of a live body to play 3rd or 4th string RB due to injuries to the regular RBs who made the team out of training camp. He NEVER TOUCHED THE BALL ONCE that season, therefore his presence on the roster had NO HARMFUL IMPACT on the Seahawks -- he was basically an extra practice player to help out the regulars. If a team wants to extend a MODEST half-season contract to a player to serve as a 3rd or 4th string back-up (which is all he received and all he was going to be used for anyway), what's the problem and why do you care? Also in 1977 "the honor system" was MUCH MORE prevalent than it is now. He obviously was "good enough" (even nearing 30 years of age) to remain on the Seahawks and not get cut, so he obviously fulfilled his backup/practice player role quite satisfactorily. Moreover, maybe the Seahawks also wanted Marinaro for his marketing value as a near-Heisman Trophy winner. Finally, who's to say that Marinaro "didn't" run a 4.7 seconds 40 yd dash time (or close enough to it)? The only thing we do know is that it wasn't the Seahawks' timer who clocked him -- that doesn't "NECESSARILY" mean that the impartial/independent timer was wrong or off by "that" much. This entiire video is a big "nothingburger."

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

I literally said I believe Marinaro

[@davidroberts7282]

Jaguar Gator 9, first off, I'm a huge fan of your videos. As a fellow sports and NFL historian, many of these stories are well-researched, detailed, and heavy on specifics as much as can be expected or relied upon as it relates to historical analysis, assessment and conclusions. But, I think as you rightly made reference to in the beginning of this video, Ed Marinaro more then landed on his feet with a very successful, popular second career as an actor on a show that was sort of the 1980's "NYPD Blue" mixed in a tad of original 90's "Law and Order". A really underrated show that's been forgotten due to more successful, edgier, aggressive police-procedural series like " Law and Order", "NYPD Blue", despite its supernatural edge, "Lucifer" was mostly a police -procedural series, "Luther" in the U.K. and their have been other series that have police-procedural elements or references to them in organized crime series The Sopranos, and Breaking Bad. Although Ed Marinaro did make a bit of a fool of himself during the 2022 NFL Draft in Las Vegas where he kept rambling past his alloted time so much so that a NFL on ESPN executive walked on-stage briefly to tell him to cut it out and get off-stage.

[@wingedbuffalo4670]

@@OfficialJaguarGator9 With all due respect ... If you believe Marinaro actually ran a 4.7 second 40 yd dash the second time around, (I'm not saying he did or didn't because I don't care), that's all the more reason to ask: why is his signing a partial year contract to be a 3rd or 4th string RB/practice player for the Seahawks -- and obviously fulfilling his contract to Seattle's satisfaction -- "such" a "big deal" of note upon which to base a detailed, lengthy video ??? A video with the same footage (or perhaps even more) merely focused on celebrating Marinaro's career -- without making it all wrapped up about "the outrage of signing him without verifying his second 40 time" -- would have been just as good (better actually).

[@G35Jeff]

This guy sure loves analogies

[@PhatLvis]

*"uh-Fohr-MEN-chund;" rather than "Aff-ur-" (like the word Before, rather than Beffer)