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Press Pass: Prepping for the Browns. Expert Predictions: Week 10 picks for Patriots vs. Patriots Fan Predictions Contest. How will Trent Brown's return impact Patriots o-line? A Gentleman and an Officer: King cherishes his Army spouse. Upon the collapse of the league, Flutie went to the NFL, were he spent his first three season not doing much, and only playing in six games. After 17 games and some 1, yards in three seasons with the Patriots, Flutie left for the Canadian Football League, signing with the British Columbia Lions.
After throwing over completions for more then 6, yards and earning the Most Outstanding Player award with the Lions in , Flutie signed with the Calgary Stampeders. Over his eight year career, Flutie won three Grey Cups, earning the MVP award in each, earned seven Most Outstanding Player awards, and threw more than 40, yards and touchdowns. After four games and a record, the Buffalo Bills gave Flutie the starting quarterback job. In his first start, he led the team to a fourth-quarter comeback, throwing two touchdowns, to beat the Indianapolis Colts.
With Flutie taking the reins, the Bills won eight more games and ended their season with a record, and earned his first Pro-Bowl appearance and the Comeback Player of the Year award. But he made some of it count by being the first player in 64 years to make a successful dropkick in a game against the Dolphins.
The subsequent rise in applications for admission to Boston College after Flutie's "Hail Mary" gave rise to the admissions phenomenon known as the "Flutie Effect". This idea essentially states that a winning sports team can increase the recognition value of a school enough to make it more attractive to potential applicants.
In addition to his collegiate athletic achievement, Flutie maintained a distinguished academic record at Boston College. He was a candidate for a Rhodes Scholarship, for which he was named a finalist in His number, 22, has been retired by the Boston College football program.
Despite his successful college, whether Flutie was too small to play professional football was uncertain. When asked on television "Can a guy who's five-foot-nine, pounds make it in the pros?
But it's a matter of ability and not size. I feel I can play; I don't know for sure, and those questions will be answered in the future. Flutie was seen as extremely attractive to the USFL, which was desperate for a star to reinvigorate the league as it was in financial difficulty.
Flutie entered the USFL with much hype and fanfare. However, many began to wonder if the scouts who said Flutie could not compete on the pro level were right. His debut was not impressive, as his first two professional passes were intercepted by Renegades line backer Jeff Gabrielsen. The only two touchdowns that New Jersey scored came from turnovers by Orlando quarterback Jerry Golsteyn. By the time Flutie's debut was over, he completed only 7 of 18 passes, for a total of yards, while running for 51 yards.
He suffered an injury late in the season that saw him turn over the reins to reserve quarterback Ron Reeves. On October 14, , Flutie, who was originally drafted by the L. Rams, had his rights traded to the Chicago Bears in exchange for draft picks. Flutie crossed the picket lines in order to play for the Patriots, and charges of being a scab dogged him thereafter. Flutie would remain with the Patriots from —, after which he left to play in the Canadian Football League.
Flutie played in the Canadian Football League for 8 years. He is considered as one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play Canadian football. At the time he was the highest paid player in the CFL. Flutie struggled in his first season, which would be his only losing season in the CFL. Over the next seven years he would go as a starter. Flutie was rewarded with a reported million-dollar salary with the Calgary Stampeders.
Flutie won his first Grey Cup in with the Stampeders. Prior to his final two Grey Cup victories with the Argonauts, Flutie was hampered by the opinion, supported by the media, that he was a quarterback who could not win in cold weather.
In both and , the Stampeders had the best record in the league, but lost the Western Final each year at home in freezing conditions. After first refusing to wear gloves in freezing temperatures, in later years Flutie adapted to throwing with gloves in cold weather. His career CFL statistics include 41, passing yards and touchdowns.
He holds the professional football record of 6, yards passing in a single season. He led the league in passing five times in only eight seasons. He once held four of the CFL's top five highest single-season completion marks, including a record in which was surpassed by Ricky Ray in His 48 touchdown passes in remains a CFL record. Flutie became the Buffalo Bills' quarterback five games into the season.
The Bills were initially uninterested in signing him, but then-pro personnel director A. Smith convinced the organization that Flutie would be a great asset to the team. In his first action with the Bills, Flutie entered for an injured Rob Johnson and passed for two TDs while leading a fourth-quarter comeback against the Indianapolis Colts on October 11,
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