FOXBORO, Mass. For 21 years, Doug Flutie s career has been defined by one play. Now the "Hail Flutie" has its historic bookend. The 43-year-old Patriots backup converted the NFL s first successful ...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. For 21 years, Doug Flutie’s career has been defined by one play. Now the “Hail Flutie” has its historic bookend. The 43-year-old Patriots backup converted the NFL’s first successful ...

When Doug Flutie was doing his magic act at Boston College, he had a fantasy, and it was not about winning the Heisman Trophy. He dreamed about pulling off a play no one had seen in at least 50 years.

Oct. 15—HATCH — The story goes, this was likely going to be the final play of Doug Flutie's football-playing career. He was a back-up quarterback for the New England Patriots, who had just scored a ...

Surely it was an omen. Not even one full day into the new year and sports turned downright weird in 2006, with Doug Flutie making the first drop kick in the NFL since 1941. The year ended with a ...