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| - Donato "Dan" Sileo (born January 3, 1963 in Stamford, Connecticut) is a sports radio personality and former professional football player. Sileo started his sports career at Stamford Catholic High School (now Trinity Catholic) in Stamford, Connecticut. He is the highest drafted NFL player from Stamford, where he led Catholic High to two straight city crowns, was named All City three times and was also named 1st team All-State in football by the CIAC and 2nd team All-State by the New Haven Register. Sileo made the Adidas High School All American football team in 1981. Before his current career, had a short NFL career as a defensive lineman, playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and appearing in preseason games for the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys.
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| - Donato "Dan" Sileo (born January 3, 1963 in Stamford, Connecticut) is a sports radio personality and former professional football player. Sileo started his sports career at Stamford Catholic High School (now Trinity Catholic) in Stamford, Connecticut. He is the highest drafted NFL player from Stamford, where he led Catholic High to two straight city crowns, was named All City three times and was also named 1st team All-State in football by the CIAC and 2nd team All-State by the New Haven Register. Sileo made the Adidas High School All American football team in 1981. Before his current career, had a short NFL career as a defensive lineman, playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and appearing in preseason games for the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys. Sileo transferred once during his college career. He started at Maryland, where as a freshman he played in 10 games and broke NFL Hall of Famer (and former Terp) Randy White's freshman bench press record with a 435-pound press. Sileo was a member of the University of Maryland's 1983 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship football team. He then went to the University of Miami Hurricanes. In 1986, Sileo led the Hurricanes defensive line in solo tackles with 50 and 97 total and tackles for loss with 13 and third in sacks with 6 and first in fumbles with 8. In Sileo's games in 1986 vs. Florida and Florida State, Sileo would register 24 tackles 3 sacks and 5 tackles for loss. He was also the leading tackler in the 1987 Fiesta Bowl, where Sileo started the game off with a QB sack of Penn State QB John Shaffer; Miami fell 14-10 to Penn State with over 70 million viewers watching the Fiesta Bowl with a 24.9 share and 25.1% of housholds tuned in. He made All South and was an All-America honorable mention and 2nd team All American by Sport magazine in 1986. He was named to the Sporting News preseason All American team in 1987. Sileo in 1987 was a Sporting News preseason Outland Trophy & Lombardi Trophy candidate. Sileo was named to Sports Illustrated's All-Time College Football Walk-On Team in 1992. Sileo ran out of his five-year eligibility for NCAA play after the 1986 season. On September 6, 1987, two days after the NCAA deemed him ineligible, Sileo claimed that because he had not entered the 1986 NFL Draft, he was a free agent; he proceeded to sign with the Buccaneers. The NFL declared the contract invalid and put him in the 1987 NFL Supplemental Draft. Although Sileo initially sued the NFL and the Bucs to honor his original contract, he eventually submitted to the Supplemental Draft, where the Bucs selected him in the third round (59th overall). Sileo is the second-highest drafted defensive lineman in Supplemental Draft history. Sileo spent his entire NFL career as a backup and special teams player. The only regular season games he played in were during the 1987 season. Sileo was named to the NFL's Honorable Mention All-Rookie Team. He eventually played for the Orlando Thunder of the World League of American Football in 1992, where he was a first team All-League, and helped lead the team to the World Bowl in Montreal, Canada, where they lost to the Sacramento Surge 21-17. His last professional team was the Las Vegas Sting of the Arena Football League in 1994, where he made honorable mention All League and helped lead the Sting to the AFL playoffs, where they lost to the Arizona Rattlers 51-46 to wrap up his pro football career.
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