Dan Sileo
Encyclopedia
Dan Sileo 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-America
n 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 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE1D7143EF936A2575AC0A961948260, 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. 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.
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. 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. 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)
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. 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.
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 http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_bianchi/2009/10/orlando-radio-host-dan-sileo-suspended-after-tampa-bay-bucs-ownership-threaten-action-against-him-an.html 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.
Sports radio
Sports radio is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sporting events. A popular format with an almost exclusively male demographic in most areas, sports radio is characterized by an often-boisterous on-air style and extensive debate and analysis by both hosts and...
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
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football franchise based in Tampa, Florida, U.S. They are currently members of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League – they are the only team in the division not to come from the old NFC West...
, and appearing in preseason
National Football League exhibition season
The National Football League preseason refers to the period each year during which NFL teams play several not-for-the-record exhibition games before the actual "championship" or "regular" season starts. Beginning with the featured Pro Football Hall of Fame game in early August, five weekends of...
games for the Detroit Lions
Detroit Lions
The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...
and the Dallas Cowboys
Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football franchise which plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League . They are headquartered in Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas...
.
Sileo transferred once during his college career. He started at Maryland
University of Maryland, College Park
The University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...
,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
Miami Hurricanes football
The Miami Hurricanes football program competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference of the NCAA's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision for the University of Miami. The program began in 1926 and has won five AP national championships...
, 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-America
All-America
An All-America team is an honorary sports team composed of outstanding amateur players—those considered the best players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply...
n 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
1986 NFL Draft
The 1986 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 29–30, 1986...
, he was a free agent
Free agent
In professional sports, a free agent is a player whose contract with a team has expired and who is thus eligible to sign with another club or franchise....
; he proceeded to sign with the Buccaneers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football franchise based in Tampa, Florida, U.S. They are currently members of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League – they are the only team in the division not to come from the old NFC West...
. The NFL declared the contract invalid and put him in the 1987
1987 NFL season
The 1987 NFL season was the 68th regular season of the National Football League. A 24-day players' strike reduced the 16-game season to 15. The games that were scheduled for the third week of the season were canceled, but the games for weeks 4–6 were played with replacement players...
NFL Supplemental Draft. Although Sileo initially sued the NFL and the Bucs to honor his original contract http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE1D7143EF936A2575AC0A961948260, 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
1987 NFL season
The 1987 NFL season was the 68th regular season of the National Football League. A 24-day players' strike reduced the 16-game season to 15. The games that were scheduled for the third week of the season were canceled, but the games for weeks 4–6 were played with replacement players...
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
Anabolic steroid
Anabolic steroids, technically known as anabolic-androgen steroids or colloquially simply as "steroids", are drugs that mimic the effects of testosterone and dihydrotestosterone in the body. They increase protein synthesis within cells, which results in the buildup of cellular tissue ,...
user, prior to drug testing in the NFL becoming more highly aggressive and effective. He eventually played for the Orlando Thunder
Orlando Thunder
The Orlando Thunder was a member of the World League of American Football from 1991 to 1992 . The team played their games in the 70,000 seat Citrus Bowl, and was coached by Don Matthews in 1991 and Galen Hall in 1992...
of the World League of American Football
World League of American Football
The World League of American Football was founded in 1990 with support from the National Football League to play professional American football in North America, Europe and later possibly Asia...
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 FranciscoSan Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
on KGO 810 and KNBR 680
KNBR
KNBR, The Sports Leader, is the on-air branding used by two AM radio stations in the San Francisco, California, area broadcasting a sports radio format, owned by Cumulus Media....
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
Fox Sports Radio
Fox Sports Radio, abbreviated FSR, is an international radio network consisting of sports talk programming. The network is a service of Premiere Networks...
, 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
Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...
. 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
DRUGS
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows are an American post-hardcore band formed in 2010. They released their debut self-titled album on February 22, 2011.- Formation :...
, 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
University of Miami
The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
and NFL career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football franchise based in Tampa, Florida, U.S. They are currently members of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League – they are the only team in the division not to come from the old NFC West...
, 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. In 2004, his program on WQTM began syndication on 620 WDAE in Tampa
Tâmpa
Tâmpa may refer to several villages in Romania:* Tâmpa, a village in Băcia Commune, Hunedoara County* Tâmpa, a village in Miercurea Nirajului, Mureş County* Tâmpa, a mountain in Braşov city...
, where his unabashed support for the New York Yankees
New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...
has been poorly received by area Tampa Bay Rays
Tampa Bay Rays
The Tampa Bay Rays are a Major League Baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Rays are a member of the Eastern Division of MLB's American League. Since their inception in , the club has played at Tropicana Field...
fans due to both teams being in the same division. For a short time in 2004, the program was syndicated on WINZ 940 AM in Miami
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
. On weekends, Sileo also has worked as an analyst on Westwood One
Westwood One
Westwood One was an American radio network and was based in New York City. At one time, it was managed by CBS Radio, the radio arm of CBS Corporation, and Viacom and was later purchased by the private equity firm The Gores Group...
radio.
Sileo's program began syndication on WNLS
WNLS
-References:...
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)
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
Charles Davis (football player)
Charles Davis is a former football player for the University of Tennessee.Davis was an All-SEC defensive back for the Tennessee Volunteers. He earned a master's degree in history while a student at Tennessee.-Biography:...
) producer Simon (David Luke) was fired from WQTM. 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.
In March 2008, Sileo's radio show was cancelled by "930 The Fox"
WFXJ (AM)
WFXJ is a Jacksonville, Florida sports-talk radio station. Local programming includes The Tom McManus Show featuring former NFL linebacker and author Tom McManus and The Pete Prisco Show. WFXJ also is the home of the Jacksonville Suns, the AA minor league affiliate of the Florida Marlins and the...
in Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...
. 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 http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_bianchi/2009/10/orlando-radio-host-dan-sileo-suspended-after-tampa-bay-bucs-ownership-threaten-action-against-him-an.html 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.