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- The 1983 NFL Draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 26–27, 1983, at the New York Sheraton Hotel in New York City, New York. No teams elected to claim any players in the supplemental draft that year. The draft is frequently referred to as the quarterback class of 1983, because six quarterbacks were taken in the first round—John Elway, Todd Blackledge, Jim Kelly, Tony Eason, Ken O'Brien, and Dan Marino—the highest number of first round picks for the position. Of these quarterbacks, Elway, Kelly, Eason, and Marino played in the Super Bowl, Elway, Kelly, O'Brien, and Marino were selected to play in the Pro Bowl, and Elway, Kelly, and Marino have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. All six quarterbacks were drafted by American Football Conference (AFC) teams, with every member of the five-team AFC East (the Baltimore Colts, Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills, New York Jets, and New England Patriots) selecting a quarterback. In eleven of the sixteen years following this draft, the AFC was represented in the Super Bowl by a team led by one of these quarterbacks: five with the Denver Broncos and Elway, four with the Bills and Kelly, one with the Dolphins and Marino, and one with the Patriots and Eason. They met with little success in the Super Bowl, however, compiling a 2–9 record among them, with an 0–9 record for their first 14 years in the league. The only two wins were by Elway in XXXII and XXXIII during his final two seasons in 1997 and 1998. Three of the most lopsided Super Bowl losses in history also came at the hands of quarterbacks from the Class of '83: Elway, a 55–10 loss to the San Francisco 49ers in XXIV; Eason, a 46–10 loss to the Chicago Bears in XX; and Kelly, a 52–17 loss to the Dallas Cowboys in XXVII. Marino would only reach the Super Bowl once in a 38–16 loss to San Francisco in XIX following the end of Marino's second season. Kelly and the Bills would appear in the Super Bowl for a record four consecutive years, from 1990 to 1993, but lost all four. Of the six first round quarterbacks drafted, Hall of Famers Elway and Kelly did not sign with the teams that selected them for the 1983 season. Elway, who had made his antipathy towards the Colts known long before the draft, was also a promising baseball player in the New York Yankees organization. With Yankees owner George Steinbrenner aggressively pursuing a commitment from Elway to play baseball full-time, Elway and his agent, Marvin Demoff, successfully leveraged the threat of Elway abandoning football altogether to compel the Colts to trade Elway to the Broncos a few days after selecting him with the first overall pick of the draft. Kelly, the other holdout, instead signed with the Houston Gamblers of the United States Football League (USFL), where he led the springtime circuit in passing in both 1984 and 1985. Kelly was set to play for the New Jersey Generals when the USFL planned to switch to a fall season in 1986, but when the USFL won only $1 (trebled to $3) from its antitrust lawsuit vs. the NFL on July 29, 1986, Kelly finally signed with the Bills three weeks later. Including the aforementioned Elway, Kelly, and Marino, a total of seven players drafted in the first round have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and eight players overall have been inducted. Each round of this draft also contained at least one player who was later selected to play in the Pro Bowl. Several websites, including Bleacher Report and Athlon Sports, have called the class of 1983 the greatest of all time. (en)
- La draft 1983 de la NFL est la 48e draft organisée par la National Football League (NFL). Elle se tient les 26 et 27 avril 1983 au New York Sheraton Hotel de New York, aux États-Unis. La cérémonie est diffusée nationalement sur la chaîne de télévision ESPN. Elle permet aux 28 franchises de football américain de sélectionner des joueurs universitaires éligibles pour jouer professionnels. Avec le premier choix de sélection, les Colts de Baltimore sélectionnent le quarterback John Elway. Cette draft est considérée comme celle des quarterbacks avec les sélections de Jim Kelly par les Bills de Buffalo, de Dan Marino par les Dolphins de Miami ou encore Tony Eason par les Patriots de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Avec le deuxième choix, les Rams de Los Angeles choisissent le running back Eric Dickerson. (fr)
- Il draft NFL 1983 si è tenuto dal 26 al 27 aprile 1983. Questo anno del draft è famoso per l'insolitamente alto numero di quarterback selezionati nel primo giro, ben 6. Di questi quarterback, quattro hanno disputato il Super Bowl, quattro sono stati convocati per il Pro Bowl e tre sono stati inseriti nella Pro Football Hall of Fame. Il secondo numero più alto di QB chiamati nel corso del primo giro è stato 5 nel Draft NFL 1999. Tutti i sei quarterback furono chiamati da squadre dell'American Football Conference (AFC). In undici dei sedici anni successivi a questo draft, la AFC fu rappresentata al Super Bowl da squadre guidate da questi quarterback: i Denver Broncos da John Elway (5 volte), i Buffalo Bills da Jim Kelly (4 volte), i Miami Dolphins da Dan Marino (una volta) e i New England Patriots da Tony Eason (una volta). Essi però trovarono poca fortuna nel Super Bowl, compilando un record di 2-9, partendo con uno 0-9 nei loro primi 14 anni nella lega. Le uniche due vittorie furono di Elway nelle sue due ultime stagioni in carriera, nei Super Bowl XXXII e XXXIII nel 1998 e nel 1999. Tre delle maggior sconfitte in termini di punteggio nella storia del Super Bowl giunsero con in campo i quarterback della classe dell'83: Elway perse 55-10 contro i San Francisco 49ers nel Super Bowl XXIV; Eason 46-10 contro i Chicago Bears nel Super Bowl XX e Kelly 52-17 contro i Dallas Cowboys nel Super Bowl XXVII. Marino, che ebbe una carriera di straordinario successo, disputò il Super Bowl solo una volta, una sconfitta 38-16 contro San Francisco nel Super Bowl XIX, nella sua seconda stagione in carriera. Due di essi, Todd Blackledge e Ken O'Brien, non raggiunsero mai Super Bowl. Kelly e i Bills sarebbero apparsi al Super Bowl per quattro anni consecutivi, un record imbattuto, dal 1990 al 1993, perdendoli tutti e quattro. (it)
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