Dan played both football and baseball at Bellarmine High School and in 1968 he was drafted by the New York Mets who saw him as a potential major-league shortstop. He decided, however, to attend the nearby University of Santa Clara where he majored in political science and continued to play sports. His interest in baseball soon fell to his skill at football and he wound up playing in the East-West Shrine Game and the Senior Bowl. These appearances prompted the Houston Oilers to make him their #1 pick in the 1971 draft. Dan quarterbacked for the Oilers for several years before moving on to the Oakland Raiders, the L.A. Rams, and the Philadelphia Eagles. During these years he acquired the image as a fast-living "playboy," an image enhanced by his ten-year marriage (1972-1982) to buxom British actress, June Wilkinson. Dan also tried his hand at acting. In 1979's "Killer Fish," he co-starred with Lee Majors, Karen Black, James Franciscus, Margaux Hemingway, and Gary Collins, but his part was small and most critics agreed that his primary talent as a actor was looking good with his shirt off. More than his shirt came off when he posed for a December 1980 photospread in Playgirl which showed him stripping and showering. Dan now lives in the Houston area where he's hosted a sports show on local TV and continues to indulge his passion for race-cars.
