Daniel William Sileo (born January 3, 1964) is an American former football player and current sports radio host.
He was the host of The Dan Sileo Show in San Diego on KWFN 97.3 FM "The Fan" until April 2019.
[citation needed] Sileo was a backup on the University of Maryland's 1983 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship team.
[7] In 2019: SB Nation named Sileo the greatest Miami Hurricane football player in program history from New England.
[8] 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.
In February 1989, he signed as a free agent with the Dallas Cowboys, reuniting him with Jimmy Johnson who was his head coach with the Hurricanes.
Shortly after he was released, he fainted in his Dallas home and was rushed to the emergency room with a temperature of 106 degrees and an enlarged heart, where he was diagnosed meningococcal meningitis, which almost led to his death and would keep to him out of football for three years.
He received second-team All-League honors, while helping the team reach the World Bowl in Montreal, Quebec, where they lost to the Sacramento Surge 21-17.
He received honorable-mention All-League honors, while contributing to the team reaching the playoffs, where they lost to the Arizona Rattlers 51-46, to wrap up his professional football career.
His program, The Dan Sileo Show, began airing from 6am to 9am, 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.
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 540 WFLF.
Sileo was hired by San Diego's "The Mighty" 1090 AM XEPRS in February 2014 to do a morning show from 6am-9am Monday through Friday.
Decades earlier, Robert Weston Smith also known as "Wolfman Jack," hosted the morning show on "the Mighty 1090" from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s and was featured in the George Lucas movie American Graffiti.
In October 2015, the Little Italy Association of San Diego honored him as one of America's most famous Italian Americans by adding him to the legendary "Banner Program".
In 2015 Sileo was named number 29 by Talkers Magazine, among the most important SportsTalk Radio shows in America.
He started out 2017 year being named #20 on Jason Barrett's Top 20 Morning Sports Radio Shows in America.
His boss is Zander Krause His career has been marked by a series of several controversial events that led to his firing from three radio stations in 2012 and 2013.
In January 2013, he was suspended from the station after a series of sexist tweets directed at Fox Sports broadcaster Erin Andrews.
The Tampa Tribune reported that one of the comments referred to a 2008 incident in which a stalker secretly recorded a video of Andrews in her hotel room.
He also referred to her as a "bimbo", told her to "make me dinner" and "bake me a cake" and added, "love Erin either naked or in a porn..not at a sports desk.
"[25][26][27][28] In November 2013, Sileo was fired by WMEN after sending a tweet that he was placing a $1,000 bounty on Florida State defensive lineman Timmy Jernigan.
Sileo said that he would pay $1,000 to any Miami Hurricanes player that "TAKES THIS KID OUT" while attaching a photo of Jernigan using his hands to create "The U".