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The Super Bowl is just days away, and Miami Dolphins legend Dan Marino is set to work as part of CBS’ broadcast team before the big game begins. However, the Hall of Famer may find himself answering a number of questions unrelated to football over the next several days.

On Thursday morning, the NY Post published an exclusive story revealing that Marino fathered a child out of wedlock in 2005. Marino has worked as a CBS pregame analyst since 2003, and the woman he reportedly impregnated is a former CBS production assistant named Donna Savattere. She was 35 at the time.

“They had an affair, and she had a baby,” a source reportedly revealed to the Post. “Everything was on the down-low and secretive.”

The 51-year-old Marino reportedly paid Savattere millions of dollars to keep quiet about their daughter Chloe, who was born in June of 2005. On Wednesday, he issued a statement to the Post admitting to the infidelity.

“This is a personal and private matter,” Marino wrote. “I take full responsibility both personally and financially for my actions now as I did then. We mutually agreed to keep our arrangement private to protect all parties involved.”

Marino and his wife have six children, including two adopted daughters, and have been married for 28 years as of Wednesday. At the time of the affair, they had been married for 20 years. Marino claims his marriage remains intact despite the affair.

“My wife and I have been married for almost 30 years and have six children together,” he wrote. “And we continue to be a strong and loving family.”

The Post’s source said that Marino and his 7-year-old daughter have had “impromptu meetings,” which was part of the deal he arranged with Savattere in addition to the money he paid her. She has reportedly since married a man she met in the Bahamas in 2009 named Nahill Younis. Savattere and Younis also have a child of their own.

What was supposed to be an exciting and enjoyable week for Marino likely just became a long and stressful one.

Dan Marino doesn’t tweet very often, but he decided to send a message about Peyton Manning through the social networking service Thursday.

Coming from someone else, this would just be seen as ordinary respect from one quarterback to another. But this is different, obviously. Dan played his entire career with the Dolphins. Peyton called Dan his idol when he broke the single-season passing touchdowns record in 2004.

Between this tweet and the recruiting pitch from LeBron and Dwyane Wade, Miami is breaking out the big stops to get Manning interested in Miami — and that’s without even backing up the Brinks truck yet.

H/T Sun-Sentinel

When discussing potential head coaching replacements in the NFL, one name that always seems to come up is Bill Cowher.  When you consider the fact that he is a Super Bowl-winning coach, only 51 years old, and said he would likely return to coaching at the time of his retirement, it makes perfect sense.  However, it is starting to sound like Cowher has no intention of making a return.  Dan Marino, one of Cowher’s coworkers and friends, recently said he can’t envision Bill returning to the sidelines.

“I would love to see him be the Dolphins’ coach or if he wanted to coach again because that would be great for the NFL, but I don’t think his mind-set is that he wants to coach again,” Marino told Dolphins.com. “And he may change that over time now, but my feeling is that, you know, he’s a pretty straightforward … guy that tells the — kind of — the truth most of the time, I would say — or no, all the time — and he said on TV that he doesn’t have any plans of coming back, and I believe him.”

We have speculated in the past that Cowher may want to coach in Kansas City, San Diego, and New York, but none of those scenarios ever came to fruition.  If Cowher did decide coaching was something he was interested in getting back into, he would have no problem finding a job.  That being said, he knows all about the long hours and stress that come along with it.  A known family man, it would make perfect sense for Cowher to be content with his CBS gig unless an offer comes along that he feels he can’t refuse.

Chest bump to NFL.com for passing the Marino interview along.

Former NFL lineman and first-round pick Kyle Turley was making the radio rounds on Thursday to promote a party he’s co-hosting at the Super Bowl on behalf of Gridiron Greats. The outspoken hot head already made headlines earlier in the day for ripping Brady Hoke who left Turley’s alma mater (San Diego State) to go coach at Michigan. That interview on XX Sports in San Diego had nothing on the interview he did with the Dan LeBatard Show on 790 the Ticket in Miami, as I learned via Steve Cofield.

Because Turley was promoting a Gridiron Greats party, he was asked about his partying habits. The conversation turned into one about weed, and one of the hosts asked Turley semi-jokingly, “Did you ever roll some [weed] before a game?” His answer blew the toupees off the old folks’ heads in South Florida:

“No, I never got the balls enough to do that. I heard Dan Marino did, down there in Miami. That’s a rumor, but I don’t know — you’d have to ask Danny. All those old pictures of him and his old hair, I wouldn’t pass it by him.”

Naturally the hosts were shocked, so they followed up asking for more details.

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