Todd Marinovich
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| Position: | Quarterback | ||||||||
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| Birth name: | Marvin Scott Marinovich | ||||||||
| Date of birth: | July 4, 1969 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | San Leandro, California | ||||||||
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| High school: | Mission Viejo (CA) Capistrano Valley | ||||||||
| College: | Southern California | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1991 / Round: 1 / Pick: 24 | ||||||||
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| TD–INT: | 8–9 |
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| Yards: | 1,345 |
| QB Rating: | 66.4 |
| Player stats at NFL.com | |
| TD–INT: | 62–21 |
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| Yards: | 3,214 |
| Passer rating: | 88.72 |
Todd Marvin Marinovich (born Marvin Scott Marinovich on July 4, 1969) is a former American and Canadian football quarterback. He played for the Los Angeles Raiders of the National Football League, and also in the Canadian Football League and Arena Football League. Marinovich is known for the well-documented, intense focus of his training as a young athlete, and for his brief career upon reaching the professional leagues that was cut short primarily because of his addiction to drugs.
Marinovich was born Marvin Scott, but his mother later changed his name to Todd Marvin. He grew up on the Balboa Peninsula of Newport Beach, California. His father, Marv Marinovich, an openly abusive parent, had been a lineman and a captain for the University of Southern California (USC) Trojans during the 1962 national championship season, and played in the 1963 Rose Bowl. Marinovich's mother, Trudi (née Fertig), was a high school swimmer who dropped out of USC to marry Marv. Her brother Craig was a star USC quarterback at this time.
After harming his own National Football League lineman career by overtraining and focusing too much on weight and bulk, Marv studied Eastern Bloc training methods and was hired by Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis as the NFL's first strength-and-conditioning coach. Marv later opened his own athletic research center and applied the techniques to his young son, introducing athletic training before Marinovich could leave the crib and continuing it throughout his childhood and adolescence. Marv saw an opportunity to use techniques, focusing on speed and flexibility, that later formed the basis for modern core training. During her pregnancy, Trudi used no salt, sugar, alcohol, or tobacco; as a baby, Marinovich was fed only fresh vegetables, fruits, and raw milk. Marv Marinovich commented "Some guys think the most important thing in life is their jobs, the stock market, whatever. To me, it was my kids. The question I asked myself was, How well could a kid develop if you provided him with the perfect environment?"
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