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Elway to Marino
Elway to Marino is a 2013 ESPN 30 for 30 documentary about the first round of the 1983 NFL draft. The film was released on April 23, 2013, directed by Ken Rodgers, and produced by NFL Films.
The film explores the 1983 NFL draft through the eyes of Marvin Demoff, the then agent for Dan Marino and John Elway via the notes that he wrote in real time starting in the months leading up to the draft. The film covers the battle between Demoff, Elway and the Elway family and the Baltimore Colts who had the 1st overall pick that year until the ultimate trading of him to the Denver Broncos, the fall of Dan Marino through the draft and the other teams and their various picks and what happened to them.
The film features Demoff, Elway, Marino, Jim Kelly, Chris Berman and then Colts general manager Ernie Accorsi, as well as interviews with other NFL personnel involved in the draft, as well as some of the other first round draft picks of 1983.
The film's main focus was on John Elway's desire to not play for the Colts, citing their dysfunctional status and the sheer dislike of despised then-owner Robert Irsay, and the attempts by the Colts to trade their #1 draft pick to other teams. Accorsi's plan was to trade the draft rights to Elway for a top-10 draft pick, which he was then going to use to draft Dan Marino. Among the trades that were explored were the following:
In the end the Colts trade Elway to the Denver Broncos in a deal that was done by Irsay without Accorsi's consent; part of the terms of that deal involved Irsay getting paid a large amount of money for upcoming preseason games vs. Denver, which was a major factor in Accorsi resigning his position.
The film's main subplot chronicles Dan Marino's initially miserable draft day, as unfounded rumors about him using drugs while playing for Pitt (at one point, Marino's Pitt teammate, good friend, and 1983 1st-round pick with the Chicago Bears Jimbo Covert relates with disgust how several teams told him they "knew" Marino was a drug user and asked him if Covert used drugs as well) led to him falling down in the 1st-round as objectively less-talented QBs like Todd Blackledge and Ken O'Brien were taken ahead of him. But the story changes for Marino when an already-excellent team, the Miami Dolphins made it clear they were going to take him with the 27th pick in the 1st round and did so. The film shows the varied reactions from ESPN's commentators (Paul Zimmerman castigates Miami for taking Marino but steps on his argument when he cites the Dolphins' defensive coordinator in relation to the coaching he's sure Marino needs, while Chris Berman both then and now politely but clearly dismisses Dr. Z's historically failed views by saying that "I think it was more of a coaching staff question with Miami. Well, it's Don Shula. It's OK.").
An additional subplot focuses on Jim Kelly, who, after hearing Elway didn't want to play for the Colts, expressed to his agent his own desire to not play in cold weather either; saying that the three teams he didn't want to play for were the Minnesota Vikings, the Green Bay Packers or the Buffalo Bills. Watching the draft with his family, Kelly says that when the Bills first drafted Tony Hunter, he was so happy, he jumped up and cheered, accidentally knocking his mother over. However, the Bills had another first-round pick, and used it two picks later to draft Kelly. While in a meeting with Bills afterwards, preparing to sign a contract with the Bills, an executive from the USFL called the Bills' office, and an unknowing secretary forwarded the call to Kelly, who was then offered to join the USFL as an undrafted free-agent, and would end up signing with the Houston Gamblers.
It's also noted that the other team that went to (and won) the previous year's Super Bowl, Washington, finished the 1983 1st-round by also taking a player who would someday be in the Hall of Fame: cornerback Darrell Green.
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Elway to Marino
Elway to Marino is a 2013 ESPN 30 for 30 documentary about the first round of the 1983 NFL draft. The film was released on April 23, 2013, directed by Ken Rodgers, and produced by NFL Films.
The film explores the 1983 NFL draft through the eyes of Marvin Demoff, the then agent for Dan Marino and John Elway via the notes that he wrote in real time starting in the months leading up to the draft. The film covers the battle between Demoff, Elway and the Elway family and the Baltimore Colts who had the 1st overall pick that year until the ultimate trading of him to the Denver Broncos, the fall of Dan Marino through the draft and the other teams and their various picks and what happened to them.
The film features Demoff, Elway, Marino, Jim Kelly, Chris Berman and then Colts general manager Ernie Accorsi, as well as interviews with other NFL personnel involved in the draft, as well as some of the other first round draft picks of 1983.
The film's main focus was on John Elway's desire to not play for the Colts, citing their dysfunctional status and the sheer dislike of despised then-owner Robert Irsay, and the attempts by the Colts to trade their #1 draft pick to other teams. Accorsi's plan was to trade the draft rights to Elway for a top-10 draft pick, which he was then going to use to draft Dan Marino. Among the trades that were explored were the following:
In the end the Colts trade Elway to the Denver Broncos in a deal that was done by Irsay without Accorsi's consent; part of the terms of that deal involved Irsay getting paid a large amount of money for upcoming preseason games vs. Denver, which was a major factor in Accorsi resigning his position.
The film's main subplot chronicles Dan Marino's initially miserable draft day, as unfounded rumors about him using drugs while playing for Pitt (at one point, Marino's Pitt teammate, good friend, and 1983 1st-round pick with the Chicago Bears Jimbo Covert relates with disgust how several teams told him they "knew" Marino was a drug user and asked him if Covert used drugs as well) led to him falling down in the 1st-round as objectively less-talented QBs like Todd Blackledge and Ken O'Brien were taken ahead of him. But the story changes for Marino when an already-excellent team, the Miami Dolphins made it clear they were going to take him with the 27th pick in the 1st round and did so. The film shows the varied reactions from ESPN's commentators (Paul Zimmerman castigates Miami for taking Marino but steps on his argument when he cites the Dolphins' defensive coordinator in relation to the coaching he's sure Marino needs, while Chris Berman both then and now politely but clearly dismisses Dr. Z's historically failed views by saying that "I think it was more of a coaching staff question with Miami. Well, it's Don Shula. It's OK.").
An additional subplot focuses on Jim Kelly, who, after hearing Elway didn't want to play for the Colts, expressed to his agent his own desire to not play in cold weather either; saying that the three teams he didn't want to play for were the Minnesota Vikings, the Green Bay Packers or the Buffalo Bills. Watching the draft with his family, Kelly says that when the Bills first drafted Tony Hunter, he was so happy, he jumped up and cheered, accidentally knocking his mother over. However, the Bills had another first-round pick, and used it two picks later to draft Kelly. While in a meeting with Bills afterwards, preparing to sign a contract with the Bills, an executive from the USFL called the Bills' office, and an unknowing secretary forwarded the call to Kelly, who was then offered to join the USFL as an undrafted free-agent, and would end up signing with the Houston Gamblers.
It's also noted that the other team that went to (and won) the previous year's Super Bowl, Washington, finished the 1983 1st-round by also taking a player who would someday be in the Hall of Fame: cornerback Darrell Green.