Dan Pastorini

Dan Pastorini
Pastorini (1987)
Position (s): Quarterback	Jersey numbers: 7, 10, 6
born on May 26, 1949 in Sonora , California
Career information
Active : 1971 - 1983
NFL Draft : 1971 / Round: 1 / Pick: 3
College : Santa Clara
Teams
Houston Oilers ( 1971 - 1979 ) Oakland Raiders ( 1980 ) Los Angeles Rams ( 1981 ) Philadelphia Eagles ( 1982 - 1983 )
Career statistics
TD - INT	103-161
Yards	18,515
QB rating	59.1
Stats at NFL.com
Stats at pro-football-reference.com
Career highlights and awards
1 × Pro Bowl selection (1975) 1 × Super Bowl winner ( XV )

Dante "Dan" Anthony Pastorini (* 26. May 1949 in Sonora , California ) is a former American American football poker players at the position of quarterback .

He was selected in the 1971 NFL Draft by the Houston Oilers , where he was the starting quarterback for eight years and was elected to the Pro Bowl in 1975 . Then he went to the Oakland Raiders , where he was able to win Super Bowl XV as a bench player . After a year each with the Los Angeles Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles , he ended his career.

college

From 1968 to 1970 Dan Pastorini attended Santa Clara University in the city of the same name, Santa Clara , California . There he played together with the future NFL referee Mike Carey in the football team, whose assistant coach was his brother Lou. In addition to American football, Pastorini also played baseball at the university .

NFL

Houston Oilers

After Pastorini was drafted in the MLB Draft in 1967 in Major League Baseball (MLB), his second draft followed in 1971, namely the one in the NFL. There he was selected third by the Houston Oilers after Jim Plunkett and Archie Manning . In the Oilers Pastorini was able to prevail in his first season on the position of the quarterback and started in 13 of 14 possible games. Nevertheless, he remained relatively unsuccessful with the Oilers over the years and could only win one game with the Oilers in the 1972 and 1973 seasons . When Bum Phillips coached the Oilers in 1975 , the team was able to record more wins than losses for the first time since the beginning of the decade and Pastorini was even elected to the Pro Bowl at the end of the season . But even under Bum Phillips, the Oilers could not reach the play-offs before they selected Earl Campbell in the first place in the 1978 draft . Pastorini led the team in 1978 with Campbell, right in his rookie season, in the AFC Championship Game. There the Oilers seemed to have no chance against the Pittsburgh Steelers and lost 34: 5, with Pastorini throwing five interceptions . Also in the following season , the Oilers with Pastorini as quarterback were second in the AFC Central and were thus qualified for the Wild Card Playoffs . There the Oilers defeated the Denver Broncos 12-5 . In the next, the Oilers had to do without Pastorini and Campbell and still beat the San Diego Chargers . In the AFC Championship Game, the Oilers met their arch rivals from Pittsburgh again. Although Pastorini, who gained 203 yards of space with his passes and only threw one interception, as well as the entire team performed well, it was not enough to win over Pittsburgh Steelers and thus not to reach the Super Bowl .

Oakland Raiders

In 1980 Bud Adams , owner of the Houston Oilers, gave Pastorini to the Oakland Raiders and received quarterback Ken Stabler in return . Pastorini then played for the Oakland Raiders and was appointed starting quarterback by coach Tom Flores . But after only five games, Pastorini injured himself and had to be replaced by Jim Plunkett . He performed so well that Pastorini couldn't get a move on and just sat on the bench. At the end of the season, the Raiders won Super Bowl XV , but Pastorini was not used.

End of career

Due to his limited time in the Raiders, Patorini moved to the Los Angeles Rams . There he came only on the 9th match day against the Detroit Lions for his first short assignment. In the next game against the New Orleans Saints , coach Ray Malavasi even let him play the full length. In the games after that he came back to short stakes, but in the long run he could not prevail against Pat Haden and Jeff Rutledge .

So Pastorini moved on and signed a contract with the Philadelphia Eagles . He stayed there until the end of his career in 1983. During this time, he was used only three times for the Eagles and could not play a pass.

Away from football

Dan Pastorini has a passion for hydroplanes , he drove drag boat racing and took part in wet T-shirt contests . He was also active as an actor and played in 1979 z. B. in Piranhas II - The revenge of the killer fish with. In the 1980s he was also a member of the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) and won several titles there.

From 1973 to 1982 Pastorini was married to British model June Wilkinson and had a child with her. Today he lives and works in Houston .

Motorsport

Dan Pastorini was active as a racing driver for several years. Between 1989 and 2005 he competed in the Daytona 24-hour race and the Sebring 12-hour race a few times .

Motorsport statistics

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1992	Pro-Technik Inc	Porsche 911	Sam Shalala	Bill Sargis	Andre Toennis	Rank 14
1995	Pro technology racing	Porsche 911	Sam Shalala	Doug Frazier	Jim Matthews	failure	Engine failure

Web links

• Dan Patorini at pro-football-reference.com
• Dan Pastorini in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Dan Pastorini at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1969 Santa Clara Broncos Football Roster . fanbase.com. Archived from the original on January 9, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 23, 2011. 
2. ↑ Houston Oilers 5 at Pittsburgh Steelers 34 . pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved June 23, 2011.
3. ↑ Houston Oilers 13 at Pittsburgh Steelers 27 . pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved June 23, 2011.
4. ↑ Detroit Lions 13 at Los Angeles Rams 20 . pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved June 23, 2011.
5. ^ New Orleans Saints 21 at Los Angeles Rams 13 . pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved June 23, 2011.