@@11C1P I agree with you that technically he was considered too short to be a really good NFL qb. Your statement that he won a lot of games and lost a lot of games applies to 95% of the QBs in the NFL, so I guess Flutie had something else going for him. I know the reason he was let go, my argument that so many other QBs who aren't as good, but are taller, still roam the NFL today as they always have. Have a nice day, I'm "Flutied" out. haha
1984, what a great year. My son was born in June of 1984 and we lost his mother to an auto accident in June of 1986. If I could go back to 1984 it would be amazing.
Awwwwww. So Sorry About Your Wife. Yes 💯 Wish we could go back to '84, I had more Energy/Hair/Focus, Just Youth Period. AWWWSEME year for Music & Movies as well🩵💙😁
@@Trumpisgod only a trump lackey would say something so stupid. You can not recognize stupid by how they look but you can recognize them by the red hats
There is video of Kosar immediately headed to the locker room. I've seen another angle from his front that shows him crying his eyes out like a little girl. BTW...there is a road in Natick, MA...Flute's hometown...named Flutie Pass. It runs between the Natick Mall and Shopper's World in Framingham.
@Tony N I was 21 and in Tucson Arizona. I was working at a Bakery and I was the only BC fan I had my whole weeks salary on this game. Boy did I get Lucky!!
Greatest pass but don’t forget the old 2005 seasons national championship game. When Vince young slid into the end zone on 4th down for the win. I think that was the greatest play ever
To you of course but to me Dan Marino to Brown in the Sugar bowl against Hershel Walker and the Georgia Bulldogs, same scenario seconds left on the clock Marino drops back then launches it ,hitting Brown falling down in the endzone, I really enjoyed this BC moment but the pitt vs Georgia iz just az satisfying.
I watched Doug play in the CFL for many years. After Flutie left Buffalo, I stopped watching football altogether. I really liked his attitude. He repeated this "miracle" pattern in his CFL career many times. Using the last few minutes on the clock he would come up with unexpected razzle-dazzle and get a touchdown or move the ball close enough for a field goal. He was endlessly creative. He made football a joy to watch.
You need to watch #6 QB for the Steelers they call him duck his placement and the catches have been great talk about facemask on the reciever and still coming up with the ball.
Flutie's a class act but that pass is the most overrated pass in college football history. Two good but not great teams played a close game with nothing on the line.
Do remember this game. Reminds me of a scout who said "it's not the size of the man...it's the size of the heart."Mr. Clutch. Was he too small for the pros? Flutie held his own in the USFL. Wished the NJG were integrated into the NFL during the strike season. Flutie @ QB w/Walker @ RB would've been better than replacements.
@@bernieudo4399 Flute should have been qb for the Buffalo Bills in the 1999 Tennessee playoff game not Rob Johnson and everyone knew it including his coach Wade Phillips who admitted after Ralph Wilson died that Wilson decided Rob Johnson should start against Tennessee . I believe if FlutIe starts that game never comes down to the Music City Miracle because the Bills would have had a bigger lead at the end that the miracle illegal forward pass touchdown would have made no difference
My dad passed away 3 years ago.....So he and I watched the game together. He thought Boston was done and walked into the kitchen. I stayed and watched and start screaming and he came running back in. He ALWAYS missed the big play, for years, after that, until the Christian Laetnner shot for Duke....This always makes me smile and think about him.
It's pretty simple...they didn't think he could throw it that far...watched every second of this game (broke a lamp in my friend's house celebrating) and it's still one of the greatest games in any sport I've ever seen.
When I was younger Doug Flutie was coming to Quincy Ma to autograph and meet people. My Grand mother drove me to go see Doug Flutie as Soon as I got there I was so excited I got out ran up the the 6 steps to see him. And waited to see him. Behind me I was so surprised that Flutie escorted my Grand mother up those 6 steps and held door open for my grandma said that the nicest boy my grandma said that boy can do no harm. He such a good boy. She was talking about Flutie. So as my roll model I always hold doors open for people and help older people up stairs. And down stairs.
8 years old....most of the family was over for another holiday meal....hearing my dad and uncles cheer and scream in joy is one thing that I still remember to this day!
A 5'9 QB tossing a ball 64 yards against 20mph wind is why the Canes D backs payed no attention to him as he ran past them. That was a Jimmy Johnson defending champions team Flutie did that to. Honestly one of the greatest endings to a game in history.
+Brandon Jacobs, and that's why Flutie was able to play professional football because he had a cannon for an arm. Maybe as strong as John Elway or Dan Marino. You can only imagine how much more successful he would have been as a pro if he was a few inches taller. Look at Drew Brees. He's only 6'0 and he has nowhere near the arm strength Flutie had, but he's had a pretty good NFL career.
Flutie had a great arm but also a great mind and great heart. The NFL was dumb as a box of rocks to let him go. He had all that success, and one bad game with the Bears (when the Bears were just not running his kind of offense) and he was shipped off to the CFL... where he won 3 Grey Cups and outclassed the whole league. One of the greatest QBs ever, and definitely one of the most entertaining.
A 5'8" 175lb QB throws a pass from his own 37 that would have hit the ground 2 yards deep in the other end zone. Now that's a 65 yard pass and that is what is most amazing to me.
I grew up just north of Boston and was watching this game with my parents. I can remember all of us leaping off the couch and just cheering and yelling. Absolutely incredible football game.
Watched this game at a bar in Lexington Kentucky with my beloved sister who has since passed away...precious memory and a fantastic finish to a great game!
@@brandonsmith7787 IMO the only reason it was "catchable" is because it was a frozen rope over the defense. If it hung up there any longer it most likely would have been knocked away.
I remember watching that game in real time, both Flute and Kosar were magnificent in that game-both kept fighting back. Whoever had the ball last was going to win the game. I also recall Kosar swore something like 'Let's get the f--- in the endzone!!' and it was picked up by the audio (that was quite a thing in those days!). Unbelievable game!
I had not head the name Doug Flutie before this game. Saw this pass, which was the longest one I had ever seen at that point. Became a fan from this moment on.
I watched this live with my father and brother. I was only 8 years old, but remember it as if it happened yesterday. Doug Flutie was one of the most exciting football players I've ever seen play the game. Side note-Buffalo Bills and Wade Phillips should be ashamed of themselves. Flutie should have played that playoff game and if he had the Bills would have won. Doug Flutie was the ultimate playmaker.
@@davidlafleche1142 they might have had a chance in 85 against the bears if they had done exactly that. But I think he was still in college then, He would play for the Bears a year later his first in the NFL. But they still could have won a super bowl with him be fore they became bad in the late 80s early 90s
It wasn't Phillips fault. He said after Ralph Wilson died that Wilson made the decision to start Johnson in the playoff game and ordered Wade to start Johnson. Wade said he wanted to start Flutie. And Doug himself said that game doesn't come down to the Music City miracle if he starts. Meaning with him the Bills would have had a bigger lead and the game is over at that point and the Music City miracle is nothing more than a garbage time touchdown if Tennessee even attempts it which I doubt they do considering they would have had no chance to win the game. I tend to believe Doug because I saw him play live at what was then Rich Stadium and is now New Era field after he had a poor game I think it was against a bad Giants team. Doug bounced right back and played great and the Bills won pretty easily against Pete Carrolls Patriots the year before Belichick took over and 2 years before Brady took the starting qb job
I'm still disgusted by how his career was mishandled by every NFL team he played for. I can't think of a better player who was treated worse. At least the CFL welcomed him.
Who else here watched this on CBS at the time? I was a freshman in college at the time. Incredible play, and one could not help but root for Flutie. This was awesome.
Watched the CBS broadcast at my grandmother’s house (she would pass away only nine months later). Was just getting into football and this was a HUGE moment of that fandom.
Was magical being a freshman home on break at the time. He did it! My house erupted and the phone started ringing off the hook. Surreal can only describe walking into the tiny BC bookstore at the time and looking at the Heisman trophy while picking up books for the semester.
I'll say it again, the 80's were the greatest years ever. From the sports legends to music. Someone for the love of God invent the hit tub time machine.
i watched this game, what this video doesn't tell you is how the game continually built up to this moment, multiple lead changes, back and forth it went all game. kosar and flutie had over 900 yards passing. 92 points scored. i remember my wife coming in the room and going "what's going on?" i'm like "this is unbelievable". one of the greatest games ever.
I remember watching this game with my Dad. Sitting in front of the T.V. Telling him. The one with the ball last wins. It was a back and forth game. Awesome!!!
Damn.. I was at the game.. I still have the program.. then I went to the Cotton bowl to see them play Houston.. it was cold and snowed.. Back to this game.. I drove from Boston to see this game.. It was an unbelievable game.. when I was leaving a lot of my friends thought they were going to lose.. when I came back .. All they could say was Best game Ever.. Doug Flutie is for real..
Had Doug Flutie in my cab when he came into LGA to pick up the Heisman Award !! GREAT guy !!! ;) PS - 02:33 65 yard pass in the air from a 5'9" QB... - HOLY MOLY !! What an arm !!! ~:O
It's easy to lipread Flutie words - and his character. Mere seconds after this amazing moment, he's asking "Where's Bernie? Where's Bernie?" A true sportsman.
I'm by no means a football fan, but I can appreciate a legend in any sport or activity. I saw Flutie on Dancing With The Stars, and he's even good at dancing! Wow!
I love how Musburger and Ara Parseghian at the 0:50 mark talk about how it's one of the greatest games they have ever seen before - and that was before the Hail Mary ! I was 11 - from central Massachusetts. Remember the day like it was yesterday ! The pure spontaneous jolt of joy I remember being something that I'm not sure even to this day has been matched. Probably the Malcolm Butler pick. A play that just sends you flying into the air without a thought !
I grew up and still live in Natick, MA and everyone still loves and talks about Doug Flutie! Near the Natick mall they had a road called “Flutie Pass!” So Cool! It’s gone now due to construction... He and his wife, Laurie-(Natick H.S Sweethearts!) Used to go to Sacred Heart Church in South Natick before it closed down... My family and I would see them and no one bothered them.... this was back in the early to mid 1990’s... I’m 44 now so I didn’t go to school with him obviously... but his nephew played “pee-wee football 🏈 “ ages 11-14yrs old approximately and I was a year or 2 younger and was one of the Cheerleaders for peewee football... I’ll never forget being this awkward 12 yr old girl in 1987 going up to Doug Flutie, and asking him for his autograph! He was so nice and I still have it on the back on some piece of paper my Mom had in her pocketbook that day!! LOL!!! 😃😆🙌👍🏈🙌🤗 He has wonderful grown up kids and comes from a great family... He will Forever Be our Natick Hometown Hero!! 🏈👍🙌
WoW! Next Saturday will be exactly 40 years ago. I remember standing on the living room in front of the TV on the way out to go to 5:30PM Saturday Mass. Mom was really to go and Dad said what for this last play! 40 years later Mom & Dad are gone, but that memory lasts forever!
@quincee33 This game was played on Black Friday 1984, the day after Thanksgiving. Saw the entire game on a piddling 13-inch TV but the memory will be burned into my brain forever. :-)
@@jennyplatypus8961 they want 6 foot 5 and up.. Peyton Manning is 6 foot 5. Flutie was a bear..Mike Ditka said hes going to be special. He called it. He had no choice in trading him to NE..who traded him to tbe CFL
I'll never forget watching this game one Saturday morning in the late 90s on ESPN classic. My dad and older brother watched it with me. I didn't know about the game. I was enthralled. I thought for sure BC was going to lose. My sports knowledge at that time was limited, but not to the fact that Miami was the class of college football in the 1980s. As a hockey player growing up in suburban Boston, this game made me fall in love with the sport and I ended up playing out of pure love through high school.
If you've ever seen the whole game, it's a quarterback shootout. Flutie had an extraordinary underrated arm. Bomb after bomb after bomb... right up until the end.
In another 40 years, we'll all say Flutie threw the ball 65 yards, against the wind, in the rain and sleet, through an F5 tornado. And still completed the pass.
The video is 35 years old. The video is still fun to watch after all these years later. I did watch the the game back in 1984. It will go down a classic game of all time.
My favorite football player of all time. And I am a Boston/New England Patriots fan. 1984 was the last great college football season. BYU won the National Championship and Flutie's Miracle in Miami. BC ended up #4 in the nation that year. Such events will never happen again with the playoff system in place.
I was 11 when i saw this game. My sister and older cousin did some kind of jiu jit su move on me where i couldnt move and escape so i had to watch the game with them. Oh my i thank them for that bc i saw one of the best game of my life. Memories are awesome
lol ....Flutie Flakes .....I remember watching Jimmy Johnson take a box of those and destroy it after the beat fluite and the Bills in the playoffs ....funniest thing i have seen in along time hahahahahaha
A curse forever upon the people who tore down the Orange Bowl. Site of 5 Super Bowls and this, the greatest college football game ever played. It should have remained there forever.
Today there are MANY high-scoring close games both in college & also in the nfl….but only a handful of them are as SWEET as this (memorable) game! I'm thinking for instance of the Rams/Chiefs game from last year.
It wasn't the greatest game ever played ..I can make a list of at least 20 bigger games the Canes played in the OB...best probably being Jan 1st of 84 beating Nebraska 31-30 for the 83 national championship...
I was at this game sitting in the NW corner of the Orange Bowl and still cannot believe what I saw. Sad part of it was most of the Boston College fans had left the stadium and missed the miracle ending.
The same was true four years later in the World Series, where Kirk Gibson of the Dodgers hit that 2-run game-winning homer off Eckersley (many fans in L.A. didn't think it could be done; they missed a whale of an ending).
I remember this game as a little kid. Everyone in my family counted us out but I believed we’d win and we did! Never underestimate the power of faith and belief!
Mike, Thanks for Posting this Sir. I was on My First Job After the Military in a place Called Lawton Oklahoma. Ahhhhhh The Memories!!!!! Thanks Again Mike!!!
as many times as i've watched this, i noticed something in the video for the first time tonight. as phelan gets up to celebrate he gets a tap on the chest by the miami dfender #2 as he trots by. i'm not sure if it meant anything or not at the time, but i think it was a cool gesture...
Flutie was basically a variation of Russell Wilson or Drew Brees. In the right system, he would have flourished in the NFL. His mobility, vision and his football IQ was something else. Too bad no one took a chance on him until he was past his prime. Even then, you could see the magic he brought to the table for the Bills. Ah, what might have been.
I was lucky enough to see him play up in Calgary when he was with the CFL. You're right. He could of been an NFL Hall of Fame QB if somebody was willing to take the chance on him when he was younger. Flutie was just a tad bit shorter than both Wilson and Brees, but he was more mobile and had a much stronger arm than either one of them possesses. One of the sad what ifs in NFL history.
he was way too small to make it in the nfl.. he can't even see over his own offensive line.. but he set about every record in canada playing up there. go figure.
Well thats just it, Wade Phillips is, was and always will be garbage! I knew the day they hired him the hope was over. I can only imagine how Marv felt watching him run his hard work into the ground. Flutie carried Buffalo to the playoffs only to be cut as starter game one for what? Because Wade Phillips is a complete moron and he never should have been coach to begin with.
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I was a sophomore in high school when I watched this live with my mom. I'll never forget how happy we were. Miss you Mom...
@Goggle products it's the end of a long, hard fought game with partying college students. they were exhausted. this isn't madden on ps4
@@MustangMike012 God Bless Trump 2020
RIP.
@Goggle products Get out of the basement much
@wogjuan good on ya mate, you've got a good heart to pass your condolences to him. Cheers. 🤙🏼
Flutie was such a baller. I saw him play in the nfl game. He managed the game clock to perfection. Just a genius to the game of football.
Flutie just used to win games. Too bad they said he was too small. He could have had a great NFL career.
@@diffened He was given many chances to have a great NFL career. He was just too short.
@@11C1P I know they said he was too short. Seems to me he won quite a few games before being let go, but I could have a faulty memory.
@@diffened He won a lot of games, he lost a lot too. Was a great athlete, just too short to be a really good starting NFL QB.
@@11C1P I agree with you that technically he was considered too short to be a really good NFL qb. Your statement that he won a lot of games and lost a lot of games applies to 95% of the QBs in the NFL, so I guess Flutie had something else going for him. I know the reason he was let go, my argument that so many other QBs who aren't as good, but are taller, still roam the NFL today as they always have. Have a nice day, I'm "Flutied" out. haha
If you've never thrown a football, it's hard to appreciate how big of an arm that was.
Nerf doesn't count.
Agreed he hammered that ball down the field, and a nice straight spiral to boot.
Not to forget it’s heavier from the weather.
Yeah, exhausted, dirty, muddy, etc.
@@ElwoodPDowd-nz2si Nope!!!
1984, what a great year. My son was born in June of 1984 and we lost his mother to an auto accident in June of 1986. If I could go back to 1984 it would be amazing.
Awwwwww. So Sorry About Your Wife. Yes 💯 Wish we could go back to '84, I had more Energy/Hair/Focus, Just Youth Period. AWWWSEME year for Music & Movies as well🩵💙😁
Then you’d have to see your wife die again.
@@Trumpisgod RW extremists are sick fucks. Troll a trump lackey and stay in the slow lane.
@@Trumpisgod only a trump lackey would say something so stupid. You can not recognize stupid by how they look but you can recognize them by the red hats
@@Trumpisgod maybe he could warn her or something ?
Within seconds of the win He's shaking hands with opponents and looking for Kosar to do the same, great sportsmanship
He was a great person, proud he was a bear in his comeback!!!
Yeah I'll never forget this. What a bullet throw as well.
There is video of Kosar immediately headed to the locker room.
I've seen another angle from his front that shows him crying his eyes out like a little girl.
BTW...there is a road in Natick, MA...Flute's hometown...named Flutie Pass.
It runs between the Natick Mall and Shopper's World in Framingham.
@mike toni Why would he ask the opposing team wheres the ball its still in the end zone under pile of bodies.
@mike toni true
Damn I watched this live.
How time flies
@Tony N I was 21 and in Tucson Arizona. I was working at a Bakery and I was the only BC fan I had my whole weeks salary on this game. Boy did I get Lucky!!
I was a Junior in High School. I watched this game with my Father. Hard to believe this was 35 years ago.
I saw that too live. One of my first thoughts after I calmed down was..."How many yards was that pass?"
Yup. I call myself lucky to watch a memorable game live like that.
I was in a Holiday Inn in Chicago yelling! Surprised no one called the cops.
"Doug Flutie is not just a QB, Doug Flutie is a football player"
I haven't seen this play in 35 years. It still looks good. 😊
@Goggle products do you still drool when you're picking your nose?
This is the greatest pass in the history of NCAA football...period.
@M Detlef 😬
Greatest pass but don’t forget the old 2005 seasons national championship game. When Vince young slid into the end zone on 4th down for the win. I think that was the greatest play ever
To you of course but to me Dan Marino to Brown in the Sugar bowl against Hershel Walker and the Georgia Bulldogs, same scenario seconds left on the clock Marino drops back then launches it ,hitting Brown falling down in the endzone, I really enjoyed this BC moment but the pitt vs Georgia iz just az satisfying.
I'd vote for Kordell Stewart vs Michigan in 1994.
Guess you never heard of John Elway?
"Women, children, and Doug Flutie first" is among the all time best one liners
In some kind of synchronicity, I am seeing this video for the first time at 3:00am this morning after the fire alarm in my building woke me up.
Doug Flutie and his roommate ..
Another great one 😆😆😆
You can't say that anymore. We have to pretend that women are equal.
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee!
My comment mirrors yours. Check out Fluties CFL hilites ,3 cups ,3 playoffs mvp and 6 time league mvp,Take care ,greetings from Quebec ,Canada.
I watched Doug play in the CFL for many years. After Flutie left Buffalo, I stopped watching football altogether. I really liked his attitude. He repeated this "miracle" pattern in his CFL career many times. Using the last few minutes on the clock he would come up with unexpected razzle-dazzle and get a touchdown or move the ball close enough for a field goal. He was endlessly creative. He made football a joy to watch.
"After Flutie left Buffalo," Huh? Why was he in Buffalo????
@@lancebaker1374 Were you living under a rock in the late 90's?
You need to watch #6 QB for the Steelers they call him duck his placement and the catches have been great talk about facemask on the reciever and still coming up with the ball.
Tan Ler I saw him play in the Cotton Bowl January 1, 1985 I was at the University of Houston at the time
@@RobTheNotary I was at that game.. flew down from Boston.. the weather could of been better...
Doug Flutie class act . Greatest pass in the history of NCAA.
"The Pass".
Flutie's a class act but that pass is the most overrated pass in college football history. Two good but not great teams played a close game with nothing on the line.
@@chuckwest7045 Phhhlllllppppttttt!!!!😝
@@aspenrebel In other words.....I'm correct.
@@chuckwest7045 you better think again chuckie
5’9” QB throwing 65 yard pass to win... speechless.
Unlike Rudy,Rudy, Doug Flutie had talent to play football.
Do remember this game. Reminds me of a scout who said "it's not the size of the man...it's the size of the heart."Mr. Clutch. Was he too small for the pros? Flutie held his own in the USFL. Wished the NJG were integrated into the NFL during the strike season. Flutie @ QB w/Walker @ RB would've been better than replacements.
Yeah with about 3 holds would have been called back now
@@bernieudo4399 Flute should have been qb for the Buffalo Bills in the 1999 Tennessee playoff game not Rob Johnson and everyone knew it including his coach Wade Phillips who admitted after Ralph Wilson died that Wilson decided Rob Johnson should start against Tennessee . I believe if FlutIe starts that game never comes down to the Music City Miracle because the Bills would have had a bigger lead at the end that the miracle illegal forward pass touchdown would have made no difference
bernie udo also had a legendary career in canada’s CFL.
My dad passed away 3 years ago.....So he and I watched the game together. He thought Boston was done and walked into the kitchen. I stayed and watched and start screaming and he came running back in. He ALWAYS missed the big play, for years, after that, until the Christian Laetnner shot for Duke....This always makes me smile and think about him.
This culminating with the Christian Laettner shot just hit every one of my childhood feels all in one go. Pretty impressive, dude!
lol, my father was the same - sitting through countless hours of games (Rugby in his case), to always miss the miracle moments. Hilarious.
Can't believe it's been 36 years. I remember this like it was yesterday. I was 17, and had my whole life in front of me...
Could be worse, brother
Now coming up on 39 years!! It now 9/30/23. I remember this play, and game, like it was yesterday.
you STILL have your whole life in front of you🙂! we ALL do!
this is still our time right NOW! There's plenty of good still ahead! 🌜✨🌠🌟🌛
It's pretty simple...they didn't think he could throw it that far...watched every second of this game (broke a lamp in my friend's house celebrating) and it's still one of the greatest games in any sport I've ever seen.
I remember watching this on TV with my Dad when I was 10 years old. Watching this brought back great memories! Thanks for sharing
When I was younger Doug Flutie was coming to Quincy Ma to autograph and meet people. My Grand mother drove me to go see Doug Flutie as Soon as I got there I was so excited I got out ran up the the 6 steps to see him. And waited to see him. Behind me I was so surprised that Flutie escorted my Grand mother up those 6 steps and held door open for my grandma said that the nicest boy my grandma said that boy can do no harm. He such a good boy. She was talking about Flutie. So as my roll model I always hold doors open for people and help older people up stairs. And down stairs.
Do no harm huh? Well he sure didn't help the bears in the 1986 playoffs ..
Gentleman. Keep it up.
8 years old....most of the family was over for another holiday meal....hearing my dad and uncles cheer and scream in joy is one thing that I still remember to this day!
Flutie threw from his own 40 straight to the endzone. What an arm!!!
Clearly the defenders didn't think Flutie could throw that far.....and they were wrong.
He knocked everybody off their seat with that throw!
... and it was a partly cloudy Saturday.
Pun Jab I yu
Clearly!!!
@@hey_joe7069 Actually, it was a Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. I went back to college to write a paper, and watched it on my 13 inch color TV.
I moved to Boston from Ireland in 1986. They were still prattling on about Flutie into the late 90s. Sadly, this was his best (only) moment
Damn I hate the NFL for how they misused Doug Flutie, this kid could frickin ball! He deserved so much more.
The Patriots gave him a shot. He did fairly well for us.
@@1974greymalkin yep, his drop kick was awesome.
Yeah, was fun to watch him as a Toronto Argonauts fan, though.
Graduated in 84. Watched 4th quarter with my mom. Met Flutie a few years later. Humble man, praised Offensive line and Phelan. Great moment!
A 5'9 QB tossing a ball 64 yards against 20mph wind is why the Canes D backs payed no attention to him as he ran past them. That was a Jimmy Johnson defending champions team Flutie did that to. Honestly one of the greatest endings to a game in history.
Flutie was 5'6
+Brandon Jacobs, and that's why Flutie was able to play professional football because he had a cannon for an arm. Maybe as strong as John Elway or Dan Marino. You can only imagine how much more successful he would have been as a pro if he was a few inches taller. Look at Drew Brees. He's only 6'0 and he has nowhere near the arm strength Flutie had, but he's had a pretty good NFL career.
and he played like he was 6'5
Flutie had a great arm but also a great mind and great heart. The NFL was dumb as a box of rocks to let him go. He had all that success, and one bad game with the Bears (when the Bears were just not running his kind of offense) and he was shipped off to the CFL... where he won 3 Grey Cups and outclassed the whole league. One of the greatest QBs ever, and definitely one of the most entertaining.
#98 slipped.
A 5'8" 175lb QB throws a pass from his own 37 that would have hit the ground 2 yards deep in the other end zone. Now that's a 65 yard pass and that is what is most amazing to me.
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee!
Doug!!! Most unappreciated QB in the history of Football. Love Doug.
The spectre of a scab followed him.
He had his own cereal...
I grew up just north of Boston and was watching this game with my parents. I can remember all of us leaping off the couch and just cheering and yelling. Absolutely incredible football game.
Saugus? M'Fa;? Lynn, Lynn, The City of Sin, you'll never come out the way you went in?
Watched this game at a bar in Lexington Kentucky with my beloved sister who has since passed away...precious memory and a fantastic finish to a great game!
Dude threw it from his own 37 yard line!
It was a bullet.
@@haoleboysurfec2730 Howitzer
That's about 73 yards
@@brandonsmith7787 IMO the only reason it was "catchable" is because it was a frozen rope over the defense. If it hung up there any longer it most likely would have been knocked away.
@@haoleboysurfec2730 like you said in the previous comment, the pass was a bullet
Greatest play in college football history 💯
63 yards through the air in a 20 mph breeze... Talk about a cannon for an arm!
I remember watching that game in real time, both Flute and Kosar were magnificent in that game-both kept fighting back. Whoever had the ball last was going to win the game. I also recall Kosar swore something like 'Let's get the f--- in the endzone!!' and it was picked up by the audio (that was quite a thing in those days!). Unbelievable game!
Doug Flutie is my favorite, favorite college football player ever. And i graduated from Auburn University
I had not head the name Doug Flutie before this game. Saw this pass, which was the longest one I had ever seen at that point. Became a fan from this moment on.
One of the greatest football moments. RIP to Flutie's parents.
I watched this live with my father and brother. I was only 8 years old, but remember it as if it happened yesterday. Doug Flutie was one of the most exciting football players I've ever seen play the game. Side note-Buffalo Bills and Wade Phillips should be ashamed of themselves. Flutie should have played that playoff game and if he had the Bills would have won. Doug Flutie was the ultimate playmaker.
The Patriots should have dumped Tony Eason, and given Flutie the job. He is the only QB who is BETTER than Brady.
@@davidlafleche1142 they might have had a chance in 85 against the bears if they had done exactly that. But I think he was still in college then, He would play for the Bears a year later his first in the NFL. But they still could have won a super bowl with him be fore they became bad in the late 80s early 90s
It wasn't Phillips fault. He said after Ralph Wilson died that Wilson made the decision to start Johnson in the playoff game and ordered Wade to start Johnson. Wade said he wanted to start Flutie. And Doug himself said that game doesn't come down to the Music City miracle if he starts. Meaning with him the Bills would have had a bigger lead and the game is over at that point and the Music City miracle is nothing more than a garbage time touchdown if Tennessee even attempts it which I doubt they do considering they would have had no chance to win the game. I tend to believe Doug because I saw him play live at what was then Rich Stadium and is now New Era field after he had a poor game I think it was against a bad Giants team. Doug bounced right back and played great and the Bills won pretty easily against Pete Carrolls Patriots the year before Belichick took over and 2 years before Brady took the starting qb job
I'm still disgusted by how his career was mishandled by every NFL team he played for. I can't think of a better player who was treated worse. At least the CFL welcomed him.
Magnificent. The Bills had their chance in the play-offs and blew it- should have trusted in Flutie
Who else here watched this on CBS at the time? I was a freshman in college at the time. Incredible play, and one could not help but root for Flutie. This was awesome.
I remember watching the end of this game at a relatives house. What an ending :)
Watched the CBS broadcast at my grandmother’s house (she would pass away only nine months later). Was just getting into football and this was a HUGE moment of that fandom.
I did. I was 19. Living with Granny Cook at her house. On a 19 inch Sears black and white tv.
I watched this game live when i was 12 , I was Miami fan
I was a senior in college watching it in a frat house with another Boston friend, and two Miami fans. They were razzing us... until the last play.
Was magical being a freshman home on break at the time. He did it! My house erupted and the phone started ringing off the hook. Surreal can only describe walking into the tiny BC bookstore at the time and looking at the Heisman trophy while picking up books for the semester.
I'll say it again, the 80's were the greatest years ever. From the sports legends to music. Someone for the love of God invent the hit tub time machine.
i watched this game, what this video doesn't tell you is how the game continually built up to this moment, multiple lead changes, back and forth it went all game. kosar and flutie had over 900 yards passing. 92 points scored. i remember my wife coming in the room and going "what's going on?" i'm like "this is unbelievable". one of the greatest games ever.
He became the greatest quarterback in CFL history and a joy to watch. Warren Moon was the only one close to him in that regard.
Both of them had amazing careers in the CFL
@@MG68 I'd throw in Damon Allen for longevity. But I think both Flutie and Moon were better at their peaks.
I had just adopted a puppy dachshund.
Flutie scored, I jumped yelling, it was the puppy's 1st football game.
She became a sports fan.
I was a freshman in high school and remember watching this how time flies
I remember watching this game with my Dad. Sitting in front of the T.V. Telling him. The one with the ball last wins. It was a back and forth game. Awesome!!!
I was at the game in Miami. I was 22 yrs old living in Tampa, made the trip orange bowl
Everytime I watch this play it gives me goosebumps
Damn.. I was at the game.. I still have the program.. then I went to the Cotton bowl to see them play Houston.. it was cold and snowed.. Back to this game.. I drove from Boston to see this game.. It was an unbelievable game.. when I was leaving a lot of my friends thought they were going to lose.. when I came back .. All they could say was Best game Ever.. Doug Flutie is for real..
@@howarddamico1237 it was so cold.. my Dad bought a Houston Cougar snow hat.. no Boston College was available 😁
Wow. Thank you Mike Gieseler. This is so much better quality than all of the other "Hail Flutie" videos on RUclips.
I`ll never forget watching this football game.
+Soxfan73 , one of the best football games I've ever watched and man that was over thirty years ago, lol...
#metoo
Had Doug Flutie in my cab when he came into LGA to pick up the Heisman Award !! GREAT guy !!! ;)
PS - 02:33 65 yard pass in the air from a 5'9" QB...
- HOLY MOLY !! What an arm !!! ~:O
later that night he was back on campus, if you can believe it! (BC '85 here, so believe it!)
Watching this never gets old.
It's easy to lipread Flutie words - and his character. Mere seconds after this amazing moment, he's asking "Where's Bernie? Where's Bernie?" A true sportsman.
I remember sitting at my grandfathers house watching the game with him and both of our jaws dropping! We knew Flutie was for real!!!!!
The play that made Flutie famous. Throws the pass to his roommate. They underestimated Flutie's arm and let the receiver get behind them.
So true and well said.
No it didn't LOL he had already been voted as the Heisman Trophy winner before this game was played, kinda hard to pull that off without being famous
I'm by no means a football fan, but I can appreciate a legend in any sport or activity. I saw Flutie on Dancing With The Stars, and he's even good at dancing! Wow!
I love how Musburger and Ara Parseghian at the 0:50 mark talk about how it's one of the greatest games they have ever seen before - and that was before the Hail Mary ! I was 11 - from central Massachusetts. Remember the day like it was yesterday ! The pure spontaneous jolt of joy I remember being something that I'm not sure even to this day has been matched. Probably the Malcolm Butler pick. A play that just sends you flying into the air without a thought !
64 yards in the air... Hello?! 💥
Insane
Hi!!!
I had just turned 10 and flutie was my favorite. I was home alone and remember running down my hallway screaming when that amazing play happened
I grew up and still live in Natick, MA and everyone still loves and talks about Doug Flutie!
Near the Natick mall they had a road called “Flutie Pass!” So Cool!
It’s gone now due to construction...
He and his wife, Laurie-(Natick H.S Sweethearts!) Used to go to Sacred Heart Church in South Natick before it closed down...
My family and I would see them and no one bothered them.... this was back in the early to mid 1990’s...
I’m 44 now so I didn’t go to school with him obviously... but his nephew played “pee-wee football 🏈 “ ages 11-14yrs old approximately and I was a year or 2 younger and was one of the Cheerleaders for peewee football...
I’ll never forget being this awkward 12 yr old girl in 1987 going up to Doug Flutie, and asking him for his autograph! He was so nice and I still have it on the back on some piece of paper my Mom had in her pocketbook that day!! LOL!!! 😃😆🙌👍🏈🙌🤗
He has wonderful grown up kids and comes from a great family...
He will Forever Be our Natick Hometown Hero!! 🏈👍🙌
Beautiful story !
Kit Carson Thanks so much!!❤️🥰👍😍❤️
@@kjkalways8470 You're Welcome
Kit Carson 🤗❤️⭐️🥰
Yeah thanks for an interesting story! :-)
I was in 19 yrs old living with my uncle in Somerville and saw it live on tv. Him and my cousins were going insane !
@lookyloo1000 I was sophomore year of high school
I had just played my first year in the USFL. All us under six foot QBs worshipped Flutie.
WoW! Next Saturday will be exactly 40 years ago. I remember standing on the living room in front of the TV on the way out to go to 5:30PM Saturday Mass. Mom was really to go and Dad said what for this last play! 40 years later Mom & Dad are gone, but that memory lasts forever!
@quincee33 This game was played on Black Friday 1984, the day after Thanksgiving. Saw the entire game on a piddling 13-inch TV but the memory will be burned into my brain forever. :-)
I was in the orange bowl that day, horrible weather. I still have the 🎫 ticket 🎟
Goosebumps! Decades later ... Goosebumps! I saw it on TV way back when. Still ... Goosebumps!
He might be short but what an arm. 65 yard pass
Is 5'10 short for football? To me that seems tall? But i know nothing about football
he was around 5'8 back then
@@Holy_hand-grenade joe c..3 foot 9 with a 10 foot dick
@@jennyplatypus8961 they want 6 foot 5 and up.. Peyton Manning is 6 foot 5. Flutie was a bear..Mike Ditka said hes going to be special. He called it. He had no choice in trading him to NE..who traded him to tbe CFL
He threw the ball from his own 37 yard line. That's about 73 yards
I'll never forget watching this game one Saturday morning in the late 90s on ESPN classic. My dad and older brother watched it with me. I didn't know about the game. I was enthralled. I thought for sure BC was going to lose. My sports knowledge at that time was limited, but not to the fact that Miami was the class of college football in the 1980s. As a hockey player growing up in suburban Boston, this game made me fall in love with the sport and I ended up playing out of pure love through high school.
One of the best passes I’ve ever seen.
If you've ever seen the whole game, it's a quarterback shootout. Flutie had an extraordinary underrated arm. Bomb after bomb after bomb... right up until the end.
In another 40 years, we'll all say Flutie threw the ball 65 yards, against the wind, in the rain and sleet, through an F5 tornado. And still completed the pass.
Uphill.
It was a hell of a pass
😅
But he did
LOL
The video is 35 years old. The video is still fun to watch after all these years later. I did watch the the game back in 1984. It will go down a classic game of all time.
Flutie was something else I tell you. I watched him beat Bama in ‘83 and ‘84. Just an outstanding athlete.
Roll Tide !!
My favorite football player of all time. And I am a Boston/New England Patriots fan. 1984 was the last great college football season. BYU won the National Championship and Flutie's Miracle in Miami. BC ended up #4 in the nation that year. Such events will never happen again with the playoff system in place.
I was 11 when i saw this game. My sister and older cousin did some kind of jiu jit su move on me where i couldnt move and escape so i had to watch the game with them. Oh my i thank them for that bc i saw one of the best game of my life. Memories are awesome
Boy have the years gone by ... As a Hurricane fan and alumn ... it still hurts.
That’s why he wasn’t on the wheaties box, he deserved his own cereal... Flutie flakes!
Defensive tackle wants to rename it "Flutie Crunch" .
He was small, but still too big to fit in a Wheaties box.
Flutie Loops
lol ....Flutie Flakes .....I remember watching Jimmy Johnson take a box of those and destroy it after the beat fluite and the Bills in the playoffs ....funniest thing i have seen in along time hahahahahaha
@@ElwoodPDowd-nz2si that's what Trace Armstrong did to flutie at the end of that playoff game he crunched him so hard he fumbled the ball
This is one of those videos where you see that pass and then you stop the video and back up and re watch it again. That was a friggin bomb.
IMO the greatest Hail Mary of all time.
Flutie....Legend.
Doug Flutie, this entire play, and the moments (good sportsmanship) afterwards, are pure Americana, which is now, unfortunately, lost.
A curse forever upon the people who tore down the Orange Bowl. Site of 5 Super Bowls and this, the greatest college football game ever played. It should have remained there forever.
Today there are MANY high-scoring close games both in college & also in the nfl….but only a handful of them are as SWEET as this (memorable) game! I'm thinking for instance of the Rams/Chiefs game from last year.
Doug aka the great superbosl loser. 🤗😊🤗
It wasn't the greatest game ever played ..I can make a list of at least 20 bigger games the Canes played in the OB...best probably being Jan 1st of 84 beating Nebraska 31-30 for the 83 national championship...
@@scottsullivan7582 When did Flutie lose a Super Bowl?? When the Bills went, it was Jim Kelly and Frank Reich the one year Kelly got injured.
@@ChildOfThe1970s Now the Miami marlins ballpark is there now
I was watching this game and I bet I’m not much different than others who watched. This play brought me to my feet. A televised miracle.
I remember seeing this when it happened. We were in a car dealership and they had the TV on. Just wow.
(And as a Browns fan ... poor Bernie)
I was a Senior at BC. Thanks to Doug and Gerard it was a hell of a ride.
@@marthabagley3934 I bet the whole campus was partying
I was too! what a fantastic 4 years!
@leonarddobens6070 we were sooo lucky. Happy Thanksgiving
I was at this game sitting in the NW corner of the Orange Bowl and still cannot believe what I saw. Sad part of it was most of the Boston College fans had left the stadium and missed the miracle ending.
The same was true four years later in the World Series, where Kirk Gibson of the Dodgers hit that 2-run game-winning homer off Eckersley (many fans in L.A. didn't think it could be done; they missed a whale of an ending).
Best quality video of this play that I've ever seen. Thanks for posting it.
I remember this game as a little kid. Everyone in my family counted us out but I believed we’d win and we did! Never underestimate the power of faith and belief!
What number were you?
@@JD-iu3vi you mean how old was I? Why would that even matter?
Mike, Thanks for Posting this Sir. I was on My First Job After the Military in a place
Called Lawton Oklahoma.
Ahhhhhh The Memories!!!!!
Thanks Again Mike!!!
Fort Sill...fo.
as many times as i've watched this, i noticed something in the video for the first time tonight. as phelan gets up to celebrate he gets a tap on the chest by the miami dfender #2 as he trots by. i'm not sure if it meant anything or not at the time, but i think it was a cool gesture...
Good catch. Looked congratulatory.
johnnyretro33 : Thanks. it's at the 1:22 mark. #2 just came from nowhere and gives him a congrats like a high five.
ebayerr Yeah, I like that. Good sportsmanship.
ebayerr Kind of a love ❤️ tap.
I remember watching that game‼️ was talking about it this evening and had to pull up the old footage. 😎🤩💯
Was one of the best players to ever play in the Canadian Football League.
We loved Flutie when he played for the Buffalo Bills.
I don't watch football like I used to, but Im pulling for Josh Allen and the Bills this year.
Sux to be the dude at the bottom of that pile. Catches the game winning pass and can't breathe to save his life
I was just gonna comment on the same but you saved me. I would have been terrified. "He just won the game, lets go crush him!" lmao
“Women and children and Doug Flutie first”
the highlight is cool....seeing this live was absolutely nuts!! ask me how I know...
Flutie was basically a variation of Russell Wilson or Drew Brees. In the right system, he would have flourished in the NFL. His mobility, vision and his football IQ was something else. Too bad no one took a chance on him until he was past his prime. Even then, you could see the magic he brought to the table for the Bills. Ah, what might have been.
I was lucky enough to see him play up in Calgary when he was with the CFL. You're right. He could of been an NFL Hall of Fame QB if somebody was willing to take the chance on him when he was younger. Flutie was just a tad bit shorter than both Wilson and Brees, but he was more mobile and had a much stronger arm than either one of them possesses. One of the sad what ifs in NFL history.
Flutie mentored Drew Brees in San Diego.
he was way too small to make it in the nfl.. he can't even see over his own offensive line.. but he set about every record in canada playing up there. go figure.
His organized labor IQ sucked....scab.
@@ndspeedster Flutie would of been flattened in the NFL. like a pancake
Why the fffffffff does the 80s look so damn good no matter what angle you look them from
Imagine if buffalo had let flutie play instead of Johnson.
Well thats just it, Wade Phillips is, was and always will be garbage! I knew the day they hired him the hope was over. I can only imagine how Marv felt watching him run his hard work into the ground. Flutie carried Buffalo to the playoffs only to be cut as starter game one for what? Because Wade Phillips is a complete moron and he never should have been coach to begin with.
I remember that and it was maddening to say the least
I love the bills but not letting flutie play really made me upset
@@PApro Wade wanted Flutie to start, but owner Ralph Wilson wanted him to start $25 million QB Rob Johnson, or else.
Factually incorrect. Wade wanted Flutie to start, but he was overruled by the owner.
I was in Jr. High when this happened. SNL did a news bit with I think Rich Hall playing Flutie, it was hilarious.
I remember watching this game live ...I was 12 ..damn i'm getting old
:(