In praise of .... Doug Flutie

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This is fucking amazing:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2277308

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 1 January 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I saw it happen. I nearly fell out of my seat.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 1 January 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, can you imagine if he missed it?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 January 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

Doug Flutie: is he a superhero?

discus.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

THIS WAS FUCKING RAD AS HELL!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe the rule used to be you could drop kick it from beyond the line of scrimmage. What madness the old game of football was.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

I spent like an hour watching hall of famers talking about their careers, and acting like Otto Graham or whoever was the best thing ever. Then they show clips of the dude and he's running around like he's carrying bags of cement and throwing a wobbly, slow spiral to some elephant. Yeah, I'm sure Brian Urlacher couldn't knock that dude's dentures out. Right.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2445409

RETIRED! ILF: WAHT'S YOUR FAVOURITE MEMRY OF TEH DOUG FLUTIE ERA???

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Flutie got a whole lot out of what he had, criminy the guy played college football in the mid 80s. He is a prime example in that QB thread about some players not finding their place on a team. The guy was a decent QB at a point and probably could have put up a few more productive seasons as a starter if he would have landed in the right situation earlier in his career.

If you would have told me in 1986 right after the defending World Champion Chicago Bears lost in the playoffs with Flutie at QB that the guy would still be playing twenty years later, I would have said you were crazy. Freaking Alonzo Carreker killed the Bears chance for a repeat by cheap shot injuring Jim McMahon, then Fuller and Tomczak both got hurt and Flutie got the nod. Like any QB with no experience in the playoffs, he didn't do so hot. Still in hindsight, Flutie may have been a better option than most of the bozos that played QB for the Bears in the interim years.

I saw the catch happen on TV when it happened. It was pretty amazing and it one of those few overblown plays along with the Cal/Stanford band kickoff return that I never get tired of seeing.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Monday, 15 May 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

FLUTIE FLAKES I HARDLY KNEW YE

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

lol at "Flutie Flakes"

― Dan (Congrats Doug) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/FlutieFlakes1.jpg

FAT FREE!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Flutie Flakes is the name of a breakfast cereal named for then Buffalo Bills starting quarterback Doug Flutie in 1998, after Flutie's popularity soared because of his scrambling, last quarter heroics and his impressive win-loss record. A large portion of the profits made from sales of Flutie Flakes were donated to the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism, created in honor of Flutie's autistic son. The goal of the foundation is to create awareness of autism and to seek a cure.

Flutie Flakes became the subject of a minor controversy in January 2000 when after a controversial playoff win over Buffalo, Miami Dolphins' head coach Jimmy Johnson poured Flutie Flakes on the ground and invited his team to stomp on them. Flutie was upset that Johnson would use the product that Doug created to help victims of autism in such a manner. Johnson issued a public apology.

Flutie Flakes remained popular in the region even after Flutie was benched for Rob Johnson. After Flutie signed with the San Diego Chargers in 2001, the red, white, and blue boxes were replaced with a black, yellow, and white design.

A box of Flutie Flakes is visible on top of the fridge in the Barones' kitchen in the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005).

Flutie Flakes is also a common derisive term used in reference to Flutie fans who display an extreme fanaticism and irrationality when it comes to their beloved hero.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Flutie Fruities are a brand of fruit snacks developed during Doug Flutie's 2001 season with the San Diego Chargers. Much like the beloved breakfast cereal Flutie Flakes, Flutie Fruities was a product created to appeal to fans of his football career, and a large portion of the proceeds went toward the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism.

This confectionery-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

This is incredible in so many ways.

― INSANE CLOWN FOSSE (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

I used to have a box. Which I ate and then kept the box as a "collector's item". I don't know what happened to it now :( :(

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

I still do have that shitty CD he made somewhere, though

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://i8.ebayimg.com/02/i/03/a8/fa/d6_1_b.JPG

"ramblin scramblin man". it makes so much sense to me now why he quoted skynard at his press conference.

― INSANE CLOWN FOSSE (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

what in the holy hell is that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

...AND WHY DON'T I HAVE IT?

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

FLUITE IS PUNK AS FUCK THE DROPKICK MURPHIES NAMED THERE BANNED AFTER HIM IF YOU DON';T BELIEVE ME JSUT ERAD THSI POST ITS IN HERE

― KL (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

I remember seeing an interview with Jimmy Johnson mentioning that he went to high school with Janis Joplin and he called her something like "Burnt Weeds" because of her red hair.

Hard to believe, him being a ex-football coach and all, but I think Jimmy Johnson might be a bit of an asshole.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://bostondirtdogs.boston.com/Headline_Archives/BDD_DF_5.18_N_BMB.jpg

Retirement Plan for Flutie

A Knight to Remember, Doug Digs Baseball Now
(Could the Sox Use a Guy Like Flutie?)

Days after his retirement from the NFL, Doug Flutie scored the first run of the game for the Natick Knights in the Boston Men's Baseball League as they defeated the Somerville Senators 4-1 at Trum Field last night.

In that at bat, Doug walked and later scored. He played 2nd base all game and even made a nice diving catch in middle innings.

(maybe this shd go in ilbb)

― INSANE CLOWN FOSSE (Adrian Langston), Friday, 19 May 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/gallery/patriots_cheerleaders_introduced?pg=5

daughter now a pats cheerleader

― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Friday, 6 May 2011 01:48 (fourteen years ago)

man i still have a box of flutie flakes in my room

― n/as (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 May 2011 01:48 (fourteen years ago)

!!! take a pic man

― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Friday, 6 May 2011 01:49 (fourteen years ago)

it was right next to a photo of me holding a singed photo of glenn rice :-B

http://i52.tinypic.com/219axzq.jpg

― n/as (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 May 2011 01:59 (fourteen years ago)

― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Friday, 6 May 2011 02:41 (fourteen years ago)

The cheerleader obviously got her genes from Doug and not from Mom.

― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Friday, 6 May 2011 14:18 (fourteen years ago)

welker's gonna tap that

― omar little, Friday, 6 May 2011 17:33 (fourteen years ago)

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