Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Legend raises funds

Naomi Dworkin stared in awe and gripped a photo in her hand as a football legend signed a bottle of his wine.

"Look at this picture of us," said Dworkin, holding up a photograph of herself in costume with Dan Marino at a Halloween party in 1991.

Marino grinned thinking back to the memory.

At the same time, Dworkin said, "He looks as good today as he did back then."

After that trip down memory lane, the former Miami Dolphins quarterback, who has a home in Parkland, continued to sign bottles of his new "Marino Estates Vintage 13" merlot wine for hundreds of fans at Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza in Coral Springs.

The wine bottles were sold for $23; all proceeds were donated by Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza to the Dan Marino Foundation.


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