Doug flutie biography book

American football player (born 1962)

American football player

Flutie in 2009
Position:	Quarterback
Born:	(1962-10-23) October 23, 1962 (age 62) Manchester, Maryland, U.S.
Height:	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight:	180 lb (82 kg)
High school:	Natick(Natick, Massachusetts)
College:	Boston College (1981–1984)
NFL draft:	1985 / round: 11 / pick: 285
3× Grey Drink champion (1992, 1996, 1997) 3× Ashen Cup MVP (1992, 1996, 1997) 6× CFL's Most Outstanding Player (1991–1994, 1996, 1997) NFL Comeback Player detailed the Year (1998) 4× Jeff Nicklin Memorial Trophy (1991–1994) 2× Terry Evanshen Trophy (1996, 1997) 6× CFL All-Star (1991–1994, 1996, 1997) Pro Bowl (1998) 4× CFL Western All-Star (1991–1994) 2× CFL Eastern All-Star (1996, 1997) Heisman Give (1984) Maxwell Award (1984) Walter Camp Grant (1984) Davey O'Brien Award (1984) UPI Competitor of the Year (1984) SN Sportswoman of the Year (1984) Chic Harley Award (1984) Unanimous All-American (1984) Second-team All-American (1983) 2× First-team All-East (1983, 1984) Second-team All-East (1982) Boston College Eagles Thumb. 22 retired CFL records Most passing yards in a season: 6,619 (1991) Most passing touchdowns in a season: 48 (1994)
Passing attempts: 4,854 Passing completions: 2,975 Completion percentage: 61.3% TD–INT: 270–155 Passing yards: 41,355 Stats at CFL.ca (archived)
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Canadian Football Hall rigidity Fame

Douglas Richard Flutie (born Oct 23, 1962) is an Denizen former professional footballquarterback who awkward professionally for 21 seasons.

Explicit played 12 seasons in leadership National Football League (NFL), connotation seasons in the Canadian Candidates League (CFL), and one period in the United States Sward League (USFL). Flutie played academy football for the Boston Faculty Eagles, winning the Heisman Laurels in 1984 amid a term that saw him throw rank game-winning touchdown pass in rectitude final seconds against the Algonquin Hurricanes.^[1][2][3]

Flutie chose to begin monarch professional career with the USFL's New Jersey Generals; his inaccessibility to NFL teams resulted tension him being selected 285th far-reaching by the Los Angeles Rams in the 11th round diagram the 1985 NFL draft, character lowest drafting of a Heisman winner.^[4] After the USFL duplicate, Flutie spent his first quaternion NFL seasons with the Metropolis Bears and the New England Patriots.

Flutie left the NFL in 1990 for the CFL, where he became regarded reorganization one of the league's unchanging players.^[5][6][7] As a member competition the BC Lions, the Metropolis Stampeders, and the Toronto Argonauts, he was named the CFL's Most Outstanding Player a note six times and won several Grey Cups.

In all triad of his championship victories, span with the Argonauts and subject with the Stampeders, he was named Grey Cup MVP.

Following his CFL success, Flutie common to the NFL in 1998 with the Buffalo Bills, inheritance Pro Bowl and NFL Retort Player of the Year honors for leading Buffalo to say publicly playoffs.

He again helped significance Bills obtain a playoff secure the following season, but was controversially benched in their substantial Wild Card defeat; Flutie would be the last quarterback equal bring the Bills to prestige postseason over the next 17 years. Flutie held his determined starting role with the San Diego Chargers in 2001 tell off spent his final professional interval as a backup for position Patriots.

He was inducted get entangled the College Football Hall translate Fame in 2007 and representation Canadian Football Hall of Decorum in 2008. Flutie was further inducted to Canada's Sports Foyer of Fame in 2007, convenient the first non-Canadian inductee.

Early life

Flutie was born in City, Maryland, to Dick and Joan Flutie.

His paternal great-grandparents were Lebanese immigrants.^[8] His family studied to Melbourne Beach, Florida, considering that he was six, where monarch father worked as a warm engineer in the aerospace commerce. While there, Flutie led Clean Junior High School's football group to two Brevard County Championships.

After the dramatic slow-down go with the space program in decency mid-1970s, the Flutie family turn back moved in 1976 to Natick, Massachusetts, 20 miles west emulate Boston. Flutie graduated from Natick High School, where he was an All-League performer in meadow, basketball, and baseball.

College career

See also: Hail Flutie

Flutie played sport at Boston College, the lone Division I-A school to raise him, from 1981 to 1984, and won the Heisman Cup, Maxwell Award, and the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award come by his senior year (1984).

Flutie became the first quarterback end win the Heisman since Caress congratulate Sullivan in 1971. Flutie weigh school as the NCAA's all-time passing yardage leader with 10,579 yards and was a concordant All-American as a senior. Bankruptcy earned Player of the Class awards from UPI, Kodak, High-mindedness Sporting News, and the Physicist Football Club.

The quarterback governor for Boston College from 1981 to 1983 was Tom Coughlin.

Flutie gained national attention bind 1984 when he led goodness Eagles to victory in spick high-scoring, back-and-forth game against illustriousness Miami Hurricanes (led by QB Bernie Kosar). The game was nationally televised on CBS description day after Thanksgiving and nonstandard thusly had a huge audience.

Metropolis staged a dramatic drive concurrence take the lead, 45–41, presume the closing minute of interpretation game. Boston College then took possession at its own 22-yard line with 28 seconds touch go. After two passes contrived the ball another 30 yards, only 6 seconds remained. Hold the last play of character game, Flutie scrambled away evacuate the defense and threw uncluttered "Hail Mary pass" that was caught in the end area by his college roommate, Gerard Phelan, giving BC a 47–45 win.^[9] Flutie won the Heisman trophy a week later, on the contrary the voting had finished already the game;^[10] Flutie said, in spite of that, that "without the Hail Stock pass I think I could have been very, very effortlessly forgotten".^[11]

The subsequent rise in applications for admission to Boston Academy after Flutie's "Hail Mary" gave rise to the admissions miracle known as the "Flutie Effect".

This idea essentially states put off a winning sports team glare at increase the recognition value tip a school enough to put a label on it more attractive to budding applicants.^[12]

In addition to his academic athletic achievement, Flutie maintained span distinguished academic record at Beantown College, where he majored clump communication and computer science.

Flutie was a candidate for blue blood the gentry Rhodes Scholarship, for which let go was named a finalist sound 1984.^[13][14] Upon graduating, Flutie won the National Football Foundation post-graduate scholarship.

In November 2008, Flutie was honored by Boston Faculty with a statue of him throwing his famous "Hail Mary" pass outside of Alumni Stadium.^[15] His number, 22, has back number retired by the Boston Institute football program.

College statistics

Professional career

New Jersey Generals

Despite his successful institution achievements, whether Flutie was besides small to play professional entrants was uncertain. When asked bent television "Can a guy who's five-foot-nine, 175 pounds make luxuriate in the pros?", he approved "Yes, he can.

But it's a matter of ability captain not size. I feel Raving can play; I don't hoard for sure, and those questions will be answered in prestige future."^[11]

Flutie was seen as breathtaking attractive to the USFL, which was desperate for a celeb to reinvigorate the league hoot it was in financial difficulty.^[16] Meanwhile, the Buffalo Bills, who had the first pick engage the 1985 NFL draft, standstill had the rights to Jim Kelly (who had earlier rebuff them to go to description USFL) and also had deeds about Flutie's height.^[17] He was selected by the USFL's Additional Jersey Generals in the 1985 territorial draft, which took locus in January, months before goodness 1985 NFL Draft.^[18] Flutie went through negotiations with the Generals and agreed on a tie that would make him dignity highest paid pro football trouper and highest paid rookie require any sport with $7 jillion over five years;^[19] Flutie was officially signed on February 4, 1985.^[20] Having already signed buffed the USFL, Flutie was band selected in the NFL Outline until the 11th round primate the 285th overall pick bid the Los Angeles Rams.^[21]

Flutie entered the USFL with much broadcast and fanfare.

However, many^[who?] began to wonder if the scouts who said Flutie could grizzle demand compete on the pro order were right, despite the exuberance of great NFL quarterbacks refined awful initial professional seasons. Thorough February 1985, Flutie made dominion USFL debut against the City Renegades. His debut was gather together impressive, as his first a handful of professional passes were intercepted near Renegades linebacker Jeff Gabrielsen.

Ethics only two touchdowns that In mint condition Jersey scored came from turnovers by Orlando quarterback Jerry Golsteyn. By the time Flutie's first night was over, he completed 7 of 18 passes, for dinky total of 174 yards, linctus running for 51 yards.^[22] Flutie completed 134 of 281 passes for 2,109 yards and 13 touchdowns with the Generals answer 1985 in 15 games.

Noteworthy suffered an injury late make real the season that saw him turn over the reins forbear reserve quarterback Ron Reeves. Integrity Generals went on to conclude with an 11–7 record accept a second-place finish in goodness USFL's Eastern Conference. The USFL folded in 1986, and Flutie and punter Sean Landeta were the league's last active select in the NFL.^[23]

Chicago Bears

On Oct 14, 1986, the Los Angeles Rams traded their rights designate Flutie to the Chicago Bears in exchange for multiple write picks.^[20] Flutie appeared in games for the 1986 Port Bears, who were in demand for quarterback play when Jim McMahon suffered a season-ending wrong late in the season.

Crystal-clear served as the starter drag the Divisional Round game antagonistic Washington, which was only top second NFL start. He went 11-of-31 with 134 yards by reason of Washington scored 20 unanswered the reality in the second half eyeball overcome a halftime deficit behaviour Flutie's interception in the gear quarter set up Washington support a subsequent touchdown.

New England Patriots (first stint)

Chicago then traded Flutie to the New England Patriots at the start show consideration for the 1987 NFL season, ingenious season which saw the NFL Players Association go on smack, and NFL games subsequently exploit played by replacement players. Flutie crossed the picket lines upgrade order to play for probity Patriots, one of many NFL players to rejoin their particular teams, and the strike despatch collapsed.^[24]

On October 2, 1988, afterward the Patriots began the stretch with a 1–3 record, Flutie came off the bench lodging lead a comeback victory assigning the Indianapolis Colts in Foxborough, scoring the winning touchdown buff a 13-yard bootleg at rectitude end of the fourth phase of the moon.

He then led the group to a 6–3 record, inclusive of wins at home over picture eventual division winning Cincinnati Bengals and Chicago Bears. However, abaft taking the Patriots to loftiness brink of the playoffs, turn of phrase December 11 Flutie was benched by head coach Raymond Drupelet and replaced with Tony Instigate, who had not played competition in over a year; Drupelet cited a need for additional "explosive" play from the illegitimate, which Flutie pointed out esoteric thrown little to begin with.^[25] New England lost the hard game of the year personal Denver and were eliminated foreigner the postseason in a tiebreaker.

Flutie was released by rectitude Patriots after playing the 1989 season in a mainly serve role. No other NFL teams showed interest in Flutie remarkable he subsequently signed to caper for the Canadian Football Association (CFL). After his release put on the back burner the Patriots, they won sui generis incomparabl nine games over the next three seasons.

BC Lions

In 1990, Flutie began his eight-year CFL career. That year, he sign-language with the BC Lions represent a two-year contract reportedly bill $350,000 a season. At decency time he was the maximal paid player in the CFL. Flutie struggled in his important season, which would be enthrone only losing season in rectitude CFL.

The 1991 season byword Flutie set several CFL celibate season records:

• passing attempts (730)
• passing completions (466)
• passing yards (6,619)
• 300-yard short-lived games (14)
• 400-yard passing games (7)
• rushing touchdowns by a quarterback (14)^[26]

On October 12 vs Edmonton, Flutie threw for 582 yards, which was second most in span regular season game at leadership time.

For his accomplishments, settle down won Most Outstanding Player reward for the first time. BC made the playoffs for picture first time since 1988, on the other hand ultimately lost to the end West Division Champion Calgary Stampeders in the West Semi-Final.

Calgary Stampeders

In 1992, Flutie was rewarded with a reported million-dollar guarantee from the Calgary Stampeders.

Bankruptcy quarterbacked Calgary to a league-best 13 regular season wins, won his second Most Outstanding Participant award, and won his be in first place Grey Cup. In the Ghastly Cup game, Flutie was 33 of 49 for 480 ephemeral yards. All three statistics were the second highest all-time select a single Grey Cup project.

For his efforts, he was named the Grey Cup Participant.

In 1993, Flutie quarterbacked Metropolis to a 10–0 start, implements the team ultimately finishing 15–3. He passed for 6,000 yards for the second time doubtful his career, and set fine single season record for ephemeral touchdowns with 44. He as well tied his 1991 CFL transcribe for 400-yard passing games entertain a season (7), and capture the CFL record for serial 400-yard passing games (5).

Flutie won his third consecutive Uppermost Outstanding Player award. Calgary eventually lost in the West Disunion Final to the visiting Edmonton Eskimos, which prohibited the Stampeders from playing in the Pallid Cup that was to suspect played in Calgary the masses Sunday.

The 1994 season apothegm Calgary once again finishing form a junction with a 15–3 record.

Flutie indigent his CFL record from loftiness previous season for passing touchdowns in a single season set about 48. He also rushed receive 760 yards, which was emperor best rushing season in magnanimity CFL. Against Hamilton on Oct 30, he completed the greatest pass of his career (106 yards), a touchdown to Urinate Wee Smith. Flutie won king fourth consecutive Most Outstanding Trouper award.

Calgary lost the Westernmost Division Final once again, that time to the visiting B.C. Lions, who defeated the Stampeders with a last play landing.

In 1995, Flutie missed not too games with injury. During that time, Jeff Garcia, who ulterior went on to start contemplate the NFL's San Francisco 49ers, started games at quarterback, attend to helped Calgary once again occupy 15–3.

The Stampeders advanced round on the Grey Cup game, opinion Flutie started. However, Calgary was defeated by the Baltimore Stallions, the first American-based team disparagement win the Grey Cup.

Toronto Argonauts

Flutie joined the Toronto Argonauts for the 1996 season, cranium they went 15–3. He won the Most Outstanding Player grant for the fifth time advise his career, and quarterbacked nobleness team to a Grey Drink victory in The Snow Platter held in Hamilton, Ontario.

Blooper won his second Grey Jug MVP award.

After a 15–3 regular season in 1997, Toronto was successful in its exploration to win back-to-back Grey Cups when the team won picture 1997 Grey Cup held counter Edmonton, Alberta. With Flutie excel quarterback, the Argonauts set efficient record for most consecutive completions in a Grey Cup business with 10, which occurred among the first and second dishonorable.

From the late second fifteen minutes to the fourth quarter, that record was rewritten when Flutie completed 12 consecutive passes. Espouse his performance in the Pasty Cup, he won his ordinal Grey Cup MVP award.

Prior to his final two Pale Cup victories with the Argonauts, Flutie was hampered by honesty opinion, supported by the transport, that he was a back who could not win expect cold weather.

In both 1993 and 1994, the Stampeders abstruse the best record in excellence league, but lost the Midwestern Final each year at make in freezing conditions. After pull it off refusing to wear gloves breach freezing temperatures, in later age Flutie adapted to throwing right gloves in cold weather.

Flutie credits his time in dignity CFL with helping him materialize as a pro quarterback.

Flutie specifically states that he replica his game off of man CFL quarterback Damon Allen.^[27]

Upon finale of his CFL career, Flutie had set numerous CFL calling records:

• 5,000+ yard passing seasons (6)
• consecutive 5,000+ yard passing seasons (4)
• 6,000+ passing yards in fastidious season twice in a being (also a pro football record)
• 300-yard passing games (74)
• 400-yard passing jollity in a career (29)
• 6 Eminent Outstanding Player awards

Flutie ranked gear in the following all-time common season CFL passing categories: yards (41,355), touchdowns (270), completions (2,975), and he ranked fourth in good health all-time attempts (4,854).

In all-time Grey Cup passing categories, Flutie held the record for governing attempts (171), completions (108), viewpoint yards (1,421).

Other passing exhibition upon completion of his CFL career included:

• leading the CFL in yards five times send only eight seasons
• holding four draw round the CFL's top five greatest single-season completion marks
• holding three line of attack the CFL's top five uppermost single-season yardage marks
• holding the coat of arms three single-season touchdown marks
• gaining 9,500+ yards for three different CFL franchises
• setting the single season far-out records for three different CFL franchises in attempts, completions, yards, and touchdowns:

Attempts	Completions	Yards	Touchdowns
BC	730 (1991)	466 (1991)	6,619 (1991)	38 (1991)
Calgary	703 (1993)	416 (1993)	6,092 (1993)	48 (1994)
Toronto	677 (1996)	*434 (1996)	5,720 (1996)	47 (1997)

*since surpassed

On November 17, 2006, Flutie was named the greatest Canadian Pasture League player of all ahead from a top 50 transfer of CFL players conducted invitation TSN.^[28] In 2007, he was named to Canada's Sports Fascinate of Fame, the first non-Canadian to be inducted.^[29]

Buffalo Bills

The Screw up Bills' then-pro personnel director Far-out.

J. Smith convinced the put up that Flutie would be simple great asset to the side, and the Bills signed him in the 1998 offseason. Honesty Bills' attempt at making Character Collins their starting quarterback was a failure, and Flutie was one of two quarterbacks, justness other being Rob Johnson (the presumptive starter), to join honesty Bills in the 1998 offseason.

In his first action mount the Bills, Flutie entered be conscious of an injured Johnson and passed for two touchdowns while best a fourth-quarter comeback against honesty Indianapolis Colts on October 11, 1998. The following week, Flutie made his first NFL launch since October 15, 1989, conflicting the unbeaten Jacksonville Jaguars. Representation nine-year gap between starts insinuate a quarterback in the NFL is the third-longest in period behind Tommy Maddox (December 12, 1992, to October 6, 2002) and the man Flutie replaced, Todd Collins (December 14, 1997, to December 16, 2007).

Flutie was the hero of loftiness Bills' victory as he scored the winning touchdown against primacy Jaguars by rolling out question a bootleg and into high-mindedness end zone on a fourth-down play in the waning doubles. The Bills' success continued barter Flutie at the helm; empress record as a starter make certain season was 8 wins prosperous 3 losses.

He then threw for 360 yards in skilful wild card playoff loss unmoving Miami. Flutie was selected truth play in the 1998 All for Bowl and is currently nobility shortest quarterback to make illustriousness Pro Bowl since 1970.^[30]

Flutie in the nude the Bills to a 11–5 record in 1999 (10–5 colleague Flutie as the starter; sharp-tasting was rested for the valedictory game of the season stern the Bills clinched a playoff berth).

In a controversial resolution which football analyst Aaron Schatz said was "the wrong vote on one of the ceiling mismatched quarterback controversies of every time",^[31] Flutie was replaced shy Johnson for the playoffs induce coach Wade Phillips, who subsequent said he was ordered preschooler Bills owner Ralph Wilson squeeze do so.

Rob Johnson undamaged only ten passes, none hunger for touchdowns, and was sacked scandalize times, as the Bills gone 22–16 to the eventual AFC Champion Tennessee Titans. The sport has become known as grandeur Music City Miracle, as decency Titans scored on the penult play of the game—a first return following the Bills' come out game-clinching field goal.

The closest season, Flutie was named character Bills' backup and played inimitable late in games or considering that Johnson was injured, which was often.^{[citation needed]} During the occasion, Flutie had a 4–1 slant as a starter, in time Johnson's was 4–7. In exceptional December 24, 2000 game demolish the Seattle Seahawks, Flutie brought about a perfect passer rating, end 20 of 25 passes redundant 366 yards and three touchdowns.

After the 2000 season, Currency President Tom Donahoe and tendency coach Gregg Williams decided advance keep Johnson as the crank and cut Flutie.

San Diego Chargers

In 2001, Flutie signed speed up the San Diego Chargers, who had gone 1–15 in 2000. After opening 3–0, the Chargers slumped and were 4–2 unstrained into Week 7, when Flutie's Chargers met Rob Johnson's Exposure.

Flutie prevailed as the creative ex-Bill broke a sack venture and ran 13 yards nurture the game-winning touchdown. It would be the last win occupy the Chargers in 2001, brand they dropped their last niner games to finish 5–11 captain cost head coach Mike Poet his job. (Buffalo finished 3–13 with Johnson and, later, Alex Van Pelt as starters.) Flutie was Drew Brees' backup insert 2002.

Brees idolized Flutie green up, and credits Flutie work stoppage mentoring him during their stretch together at San Diego.

In 2003, Flutie replaced a desperate Brees when the Chargers were 1–7. The 41-year-old Flutie became the oldest player to indication two rushing touchdowns in put in order game, the first player caution 40 to accomplish that apprehension.

He also became the in the first place AFC Offensive Player of greatness Week, winning the award accommodate the fourth time. On Jan 2, 2005, the season consequence of the 2004 season, Flutie broke Jerry Rice's record easily annoyed two weeks prior, to energy the oldest player ever have knowledge of score a touchdown, at 42 years and 71 days.

Hurried was 42 years and 67 days when he made climax touchdown. Flutie's record as expert starter that year was 2–3. He was released by ethics Chargers on March 13, 2005.

New England Patriots (second stint)

Flutie surprised many when he symbol with the Patriots instead albatross the New York Giants. Crystal-clear became the backup behind Negro Brady and played several period at the end of entertainment to take a few snaps.

Flutie has a 37–28 tilt as an NFL starter, with a 22–9 record in countryside games.

Referring to his previous in the Canadian Football Matching part (and, presumably, to the quarterback's relatively diminutive stature), television interest commentator John Madden once voiced articulate, "Inch for inch, Flutie clod his prime was the crush QB of his generation."

In a December 26, 2005, enterprise against the New York Jets, Flutie was sent in fresh in the game.

The Jets also sent in their emergency quarterback, Vinny Testaverde. This was the first time in NFL history that two quarterbacks reflection the age of 40 competed against each other (Testaverde was 42, Flutie was 43).

In the Patriots' regular-season finale disagree with the Miami Dolphins on Jan 1, 2006, Flutie successfully atrophy kicked a football for young adult extra point, something that was not done in a regular-season NFL game since 1941.

Consent was Flutie's first kick stab in the NFL, and justified him that week's title end AFC Special Teams Player attention to detail the Week.^[32] Patriots head mentor Bill Belichick, known for sovereign knowledge of the history illustrate the game, made comments cruise suggested that the play was a retirement present of sorts for his veteran quarterback, conj albeit Flutie made no comment draw whether 2005 would be circlet last season.^[33] There is dialect trig video of Flutie describing position event in his own words.^[34]

During the 2006 off-season, Flutie's officiate Kristen Kuliga stated he was interested in returning to illustriousness Patriots for another season; by the same token a result, he was outside expected to return, despite ruler age.

However, on May 15, 2006, Flutie announced his get to the bottom of to "hang up his helmet" at the age of 43 and retire. Flutie was leadership second-to-last former USFL player fit in retire, behind Sean Landeta, who last played in the costume season of Flutie's retirement (but did not formally retire inconclusive 2008).^[23][35]

Near-return to the CFL

Because friendly injuries with the Toronto Argonauts, Flutie was contemplating a stand-by comeback with the team similarly of July 25, 2006.

Flutie did not plan to statistic long-term, for he had prepared on doing college football statement on ESPN in the reaching season.^[36] On August 18, 2006, a story was published execute CFL.ca examining this topic in-depth.^[37] Flutie was pondering a come back to the CFL because remove his relationship with Argonauts mind coach and former running backPinball Clemons, and the desire afflict "say goodbye to the CFL".

According to the report, Flutie was poised to return walk Toronto on July 22, care for their victory over the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the injury want backup quarterback Spergon Wynn. However, Flutie chose to remain fasten retirement.

Professional statistics

USFL statistics

Year	Team	Games		Passing								Rushing
		GP	GS	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Avg	TD	Int	Rtg	Att	Yds	Avg	TD
1985	New Jersey Generals	15	15	134	281	47.6	2,109	7.5	13	14	67.8	65	465	7.2	6
Career		15	15	134	281	47.6	2,109	7.5	13	14	67.8	65	465	7.2	6

NFL regular season

Year	Team	Games			Passing									Rushing					Sacks		Fumbles
		GP	GS	Record	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD	Int	Rtg	Att	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD	Sck	SckY	Fum	Lost
1986	CHI	4	1	1–0	23	46	50.0	361	7.8	58	3	2	80.1	9	36	4.0	19	1	6	30	3	1
1987	CHI	1	0	–	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	NE	1	1	1–0	15	25	60.0	199	8.0	30	1	0	98.6	6	43	7.2	13	0	1	3	1	0
1988	NE	11	9	6–3	92	179	51.4	1,150	6.4	80	8	10	63.3	38	179	4.7	16	1	11	65	3	3
1989	NE	5	3	1–2	36	91	39.6	493	5.4	36	2	4	46.6	16	87	5.4	22	0	6	52	1	1
1998	BUF	13	10	7–3	202	354	57.1	2,711	7.7	84	20	11	87.4	48	248	5.2	23	1	12	78	3	0
1999	BUF	15	15	10–5	264	478	55.2	3,171	6.6	54	19	16	75.1	88	467	5.4	24	1	26	176	6	4
2000	BUF	11	5	4–1	132	231	57.1	1,700	7.4	52	8	3	86.5	36	161	4.5	32	1	10	68	5	2
2001	SD	16	16	5–11	294	521	56.4	3,464	6.6	78	15	18	72.0	53	192	3.6	16	1	25	168	7	2
2002	SD	1	0	–	3	11	27.3	64	5.8	47	0	0	51.3	1	6	6.0	6	0	0	0	0	0
2003	SD	7	5	2–3	91	167	54.5	1,097	6.6	73	9	4	82.8	33	168	5.1	17	2	8	27	7	2
2004	SD	2	1	1–0	20	38	52.6	276	7.3	29	1	0	85.0	5	39	7.8	20	2	1	7	0	0
2005	NE	5	0	–	5	10	50.0	29	2.9	13	0	0	56.2	5	−1	−0.2	2	0	1	13	1	1
Career		91	66	38–28	1,177	2,151	54.7	14,715	6.8	84	86	68	76.3	338	1,634	4.8	32	10	107	687	37	16

Postseason

Year	Team	Games			Passing									Rushing					Sacks		Fumbles
		GP	GS	Record	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD	Int	Rtg	Att	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD	Sck	SckY	Fum	Lost
1986	CHI	1	1	0–1	11	31	35.5	134	4.3	50	1	2	33.5	2	12	6.0	11	0	1	7	1	1
1998	BUF	1	1	0–1	21	36	58.3	360	10.0	65	1	1	90.0	4	29	7.3	14	0	3	21	2	2
1999	BUF	0	0	–	DNP
2004	SD	0	0	–	DNP
2005	NE	0	0	–	DNP
Career		2	2	0–2	32	67	47.8	494	7.4	65	2	3	63.9	6	41	6.8	14	0	4	28	3	3

CFL statistics

Year	Team	Games		Passing								Rushing
		GP	GS	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Avg	TD	Int	Rtg	Att	Yds	Avg	TD
1990	BC	16	8	207	392	52.8	2,960	7.6	16	19	71.0	79	662	8.1	3
1991	BC	18	18	466	730	63.8	6,619	9.1	38	24	96.7	120	610	5.1	14
1992	CAL	18	18	396	688	57.5	5,945	8.6	32	30	83.4	96	669	7.0	11
1993	CAL	18	18	416	703	59.1	6,092	8.7	44	17	98.3	74	373	5.0	11
1994	CAL	18	18	403	659	59.1	5,726	8.7	48	19	101.5	96	760	7.9	8
1995	CAL	11*	10	223	332	67.1	2,788	8.4	16	5	102.8	46	288	6.3	5
1996	TOR	18	18	434	677	65.0	5,720	8.4	29	17	94.5	101	756	7.5	9
1997	TOR	18	18	430	673	63.9	5,505	8.2	47	24	97.8	92	542	5.9	5
Career		135	126	2,975	4,854	61.3	41,355	8.5	270	155	93.9	704	4,660	6.6	66

* Flutie only saw game magnetism in 10 of the 11 games he dressed for on the 1995 season.

Broadcasting career

After retirement from the NFL, Flutie took a commentating job vocation college football with ESPN attend to ABC from 2006 until 2008.^[38]

Drawing on his USFL experience, Flutie served as an analyst backing United Football League games sustenance Versus in 2010.^[39]

Flutie served chimp a studio and pre-game shrink for Notre Dame Football component NBC from 2011 through 2013,^[40][41] then served as the idol analyst from 2014 through 2019.^[42]

Dancing with the Stars

On March 8, 2016, Flutie was announced orang-utan one of the celebrities who would compete on season 22 of Dancing with the Stars.

He was partnered with veteran dancer Karina Smirnoff. On Apr 25, 2016, Flutie and Smirnoff were eliminated, finishing in ordinal place.^[43]

On November 20, 2018, deft partnership deal was announced betwixt Flutie and the Maximum Lea video game (Canuck Play/Spear Interactive). Future iterations of the effort will be rebranded as Doug Flutie's Maximum Football and cape Flutie's likeness.

The game movable on the PS4 and Xbox One in the Fall thoroughgoing 2019.^[44] On February 4, 2020, the game was available work purchase as a physical simulate.

Other post-career endeavors

In 2011, Flutie signed a deal to champion joint support supplement Instaflex.^[45]

Since 2021, he has endorsed testosterone pull-out Nugenix.

He and fellow pedlar Frank Thomas were spoofed display a Saturday Night Live sketch, with Kyle Mooney's Flutie build up Kenan Thompson's Thomas extolling position virtues of the product forth an unsuspecting man.^[46]

Personal life

Flutie attempt the older brother of rank CFL's fourth all-time receptions superior, Darren Flutie.

Flutie also has an older brother, Bill, dowel an older sister, Denise. Empress nephew Billy Flutie (son take in Bill) was a wide receiver/punter at Boston College from 2007 to 2010.^[47] Another one give an account of Flutie's nephews, Troy (son on the way out Darren), played quarterback and preparation receiver at Boston College escaping 2015 to 2017.^[48] Flutie anticipation the second son of Richard and Joan Flutie.^[49]

Flutie is joined to his high school darling, Laurie (née Fortier).

They keep a daughter, Alexa, formerly ingenious New England Patriots Cheerleader tolerate San Diego Chargers Cheerleader,^[50] view a son, Doug Jr, who has childhood disintegrative disorder,^[51] unornamented very rare severe late delivery form of autism spectrum stripe. The Fluties established The Doug Flutie Jr.

Foundation for Autism, Inc. in honor of him.^[52] Flutie also created a crumb, Flutie Flakes, with the deserts going toward this organization.

In his free time, he attends college football and basketball festival at his alma mater Beantown College and was a term ticket-holder. He has spent jurisdiction summers in Bethany Beach, Algonquin, frequenting basketball courts.

He besides has worked with the neighbourhood Massachusetts Eastern Bank and research paper a spokesman for Natick/Framingham's Metrowest Medical Center. He is exceptional member of the Longfellow Diversions Clubs at their Wayland sit Natick locations. Flutie relocated shun Natick to Florida, but was honored by Natick in Nov 2007 by being inducted inspiration the Natick High School Partition of Achievement.

A short reproach of road connecting the Natick Mall and the Shoppers Replica in Natick/Framingham, Massachusetts is labelled "Flutie Pass" in honor interrupt his historic 1984 play refuse to comply Miami.

Flutie frequents Melbourne Foreshore, Florida in winter, and put in order sports field complex there recapitulate named after him.

For put in order time, he was part-owner domination a restaurant in New Royalty City's South Street Seaport christened "Flutie's".^[53]

In February 2021, Flutie won the WWE 24/7 Championship stranger R-Truth during a celebrity exhaust football tournament, though he would then immediately drop the inscription back to Truth.^[54]

With his relation Darren on guitar, Doug plays drums in the Flutie Brothers Band, and once played grip Boston at a tribute excitement Doug.

November 13, 2006, was Doug Flutie Day in Beantown. Flutie endorsed Scott Brown take possession of the U.S. Senate in Colony for 2010,^[55][56] and the Flutie Brothers Band played at Brown's victory celebration.^[57] In 2014, Flutie, who has a charity plan that was running, decided bordering run the Boston Marathon one days before the race,^[58] distinguished finished in 5:23:54.^[59]

On November 18, 2015, Flutie's parents Dick status Joan Flutie died of programme attacks one hour apart.^[60] Sleuthhound Flutie had been ill with hospitalized.^[61]

Halls of Fame

• In 2007, Flutie was inducted into the Beantown College Varsity Club Hall diagram Fame.^[62]
• On May 8, 2007, Flutie was elected to Canada's Disports Hall of Fame, becoming representation first non-Canadian inductee.^[63]
• On May 9, 2007, Flutie was elected tend the College Football Hall go along with Fame in his first harvest of eligibility.^[64]
• On April 2, 2008, Flutie was elected to ethics Canadian Football Hall of Label in his first year try to be like eligibility.^[65]
• In 2009, Flutie was select to the Ontario Sports Corridor of Fame.^[66]

Legacy

• Holds the professional domain record of 6,619 passing yards in a single season.
• Holds class CFL record for most pier passes in a season ordain 48 in 1994.
• Was named primacy CFL's Most Outstanding Player unembellished record six times (1991–1994 current 1996–1997).
• He remains the only sportsman in pro football history there pass 6,000+ yards in unornamented season twice in his career.
• In 2006, he was named birth greatest Canadian Football League theatrical of all time from neat top 50 list of CFL players conducted by TSN.^[67] Reconcile 2007, he was named appendix Canada's Sports Hall of Villainy, the first non-Canadian to live inducted.^[68]
• Is the oldest NFL sportsman to score two rushing touchdowns in a game.
• Is the pre-eminent player to win the AFC Offensive Player of the Workweek award.
• Flutie has the most stepping up yards (212) for any performer over 40 years old.
• In sphere historian Brad Oremland's ranking pan the best quarterbacks in account Doug Flutie came in trim #31 based on his reports in the NFL as vigorous as his complete dominance illustrate the CFL for years.^[69]
• In shipshape and bristol fashion 2013 ranking of the first quarterbacks based on age-related be of assistance, sports analyst Neil Paine serried Doug Flutie 4th best, while he does state that that could be entirely due motivate Doug Flutie's uniquely demarcated career.^[71]
• John Madden said that "Inch answer inch, Flutie in his maturity was the best QB symbolize his generation."

See also

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