Dan Sileo

Dan Sileo (born January 3, 1963 in Stamford, Connecticut) is a sports radio personality. 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, CT, where he led Catholic High to two straight City Crowns and was named all city 3 times and was also named All-State in football by the CIAC. 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,were as a freshman he played in 10 games and broke Randy Whites freshman bench press record with a 435 pound press. Dan was a member of the University of Maryland's 1983 Atlantc Coast Conference Championship football team. Sileo lost his scholarship when he tossed a student from a first story dorm floor into a snow bank. He then went to the University of Miami Hurricanes, where he won his scholorship back, teamed with Bill Hawkins, Danny Stubbs, and Jerome Brown to form one of college footballs greatest defensive lines. Sileo is the strongest player in Miami Hurricane history with a 535 pound bench press and 700 pound squat. In 1986 Sileo lead the Hurricanes defensive line in solo tackles and tackles for loss and 3rd in sacks and first in fumbles. He was also the leading tackler in the 1987 Fiesta Bowl were Sileo started the game off with a QB sack of Penn State QB John Shaffer, Miami fell 14-10 to Penn State. He made All South and was an All-American honorable mention.He was named to the Sporting News preseason All American team in 1987. Sileo was named to Sports Illustrateds All-Time 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 [1], he eventually submitted to the Supplemental Draft, where the Bucs selected him in the third round.Sileo is the 2nd Highest drafted defensive lineman in Supllemental 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's career ended with a knee injury in 1992. Fox NFL's Jimmy Johnson recently said on his Twitter that Sileo was one of his best players while at the University of Miami,and compared him to players Johnson had coached like Lee Roy Selmon and Jerome Brown.

Sileo is an admitted former anabolic steroid user, prior to drug testing in the NFL becoming more highly aggressive and effective.^[1] He eventually played for the Orlando Thunder of the World League of American Football in 1992 were he was a 1st team All-League,and help led the team to the World Bowl in Montreal, Canada and the Las Vegas Sting of the Arena Football League in 1994 were he made honorable mention All League to wrap up his pro football career.

Radio career

Sileo's radio career includes working in San Francisco on KGO 810 and KNBR 680 and The Ticket 1050. He was also on the Oakland Raiders Pre and Post game shows plus was the sideline reporter for Stanford Cardinal Football and the San Jose Sabercats pre and post game host. In 1998 Sileo moved to Tampa, Florida to take over the Morning show on 620 WDAE were he took the morning show over and raised the ratings for the show into the top 5. In 2001, he moved to Fox Sports Radio, where he hosted a 4am-8am program. Sileo was the first person hired in the networks history,he got the show to 233 stations. In September 2002, Sileo moved back to Florida and debuted on 740 The Team in Orlando. His program, The Dan Sileo Show began airing from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. eastern, with an emphasis on hot topic issues such as race, drugs, and other sports scandals, as well as a typical morning wrap-up of the previous day's events. Callers make up a significant part of the show. He frequently references his collegiate football past with the University of Miami and NFL career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, readily admitting mistakes he made during both school and his career, and is particularly tough on current players whom he believes are going down the same path he did.^{[citation needed]} In 2004, his program on WQTM began syndication on 620 WDAE in Tampa, where his unabashed support for the New York Yankees has been poorly received by area Tampa Bay Rays fans due to both teams being in the same division.^{[citation needed]} For a short time in 2004, the program was syndicated on WINZ 940 AM in Miami. On weekends, Sileo also has worked as an analyst on Westwood One radio.

Sileo's program began syndication on WNLS in Tallahassee in October 2007. It ended after an unsuccessful run in that city in August 2008. Sileo was a blatant proponent for UF and Miami sports, and that didn't sit well with listeners in Tallahassee (home of FSU, arch rival to UF and Miami)^{[citation needed]}

In December 2007, 740 the Team began a format change. Sileo announced on-air that he had signed a new contract extension with Clear Channel to continue his show, but it would move down the dial to NewsRadio 540 WFLA. In mid-December 2007, the transition began and the show was simulcast on 540. Meanwhile, longtime 'Sileo' (and the previous morning show Clarke & Davis) producer Simon (David Luke) was fired from WQTM.^{[citation needed]} In January 2008, WQTM switched to a Spanish-language format, and The Dan Sileo Show settled into its new permanent home at NewsRadio 540 WFLA.^{[citation needed]}

In March 2008, Sileo's radio show was cancelled by "930 The Fox" in Jacksonville, Florida. It was returned to the station in January 2009.

Dan's latest and what seems to be most permanent stop is at 620AM WDAE in Tampa, FL were he has been doing morning drive since 1998. Jacor executives Gabe Hobbs and CEO Randy Michaels were major influences in Sileo's success and Michaels has called Sileo the best sportstalk radio host in America. He is syndicated in Orlando, back on 740 The Game (after that station changed back to a sports format). Dan has a team that consists of Darek Sharp who does the sports updates as well as Justin Pawlowski a full-time employee who has his own weekend show in addition to producing for Ron and Ian and filling in for the 'Big Dog' Steve Duemig periodically. Sileo's show is the highest rated morning sports radio show in the southeast and one of the highest rated morning sports shows in America. Sileo has been writing a column for Talkers Inc. since 2009 which is a trade magazine for the radio industry and was voted one of the top radio shows in the country with there Heavy 250 list of shows in America. Sileo was also voted by R&R has one of the top 10 new faces in the article "Star Search" to watch by the magazine in 2009. Sileo also has been in the following books, "Boys being Boys" by Jeff Pearlman,"The Perfect Season" by M.G. Missianelli,"Sports-Talk Radio in America" by John Mark Dempsey,"Tales from the Miami Hurricane Sideline" by Jim Martz and "Sports Talk the Personality behind the Personalities" by Brody,Rogan and Rhoades, also "The Lion in the Autumn: A Season with Joe Paterno and Penn State Football" by Frank Fitzpatrick. Dan is also a Heisman Trophy voter, a member of the (FWAA) The Football Writers Association of America and a member of the (ACC) Atlantic Coast Conference media.

Dan Sileo was suspended on 10-29-2009 [2] from 620AM WDAE for comment he made about the Glazers (owners of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers). Dan Sileo was back on the air on 620 WDAE on Friday, November 6, 2009 after serving a week-long suspension.The Tampa Bay Bucs have taken his press pass away from him. Sileo has told listeners on the air he believes the Bucs did this to try to quiet his comments about the team on his morning show. Sileo says he will never bend to being a "HONK" for the team. Sileo has also worked as a TV sports anchor at KTNV-13 in Las Vegas, Nevada and in San Francisco,California at KTVU-2 and at KPIX-5.

Sileo recently said that he was a wrestler with Road Warrior Hawk earning $14,000 per week for CWA WRESTLING in Austria. He was also invited to compete in the company named New Japan with Big Van Vadar. WCW's Cowboy Boy Orton hired Sileo in 1993 to compete with the Atlanta company.

References

1. ^ Radio Host May Not Be All That He Claims

• Twitter:DSHurricane93
• www.sileoradio.com
• Sileo late career [3]

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Date of birth	January 3, 1963
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