The head-shaking saga of the Marinovich family is reaching its concluding chapters. And it’s predictably depressing.
A short primer: Marv Marinovich, a two-way lineman at USC in the early 1960s who played one game for the Oakland Raiders in 1965, set about building his son Todd into the ultimate athlete, a perfectly engineered quarterback. A trainer (Marv worked for the Raiders after his cameo as a player), he combined his vast expertise and radical practices and turned Todd into what some called a robo QB.
In an attempt to create the consummate environment in which to incubate his young athlete, Marv controlled Todd to the granular level, down to what to eat and when.