Alabama coach Gene Stallings was visiting Rome and Marino was asked to give him a backstage tour of the Vatican. Naturally, the Alabama-Auburn rivalry came up, and Stallings pressed the priest to declare his allegiance.
"I told Coach Stallings that I had applied to go to Auburn, like my father and two brothers," said Marino, "but then changed my mind to enter the seminary."
Coach Stallings replied: "That's when the good Lord really saved you!"
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