America's standing in wireless broadband can be compared to former football player DougFlutie, says Blair Levin, the person in charge of figuring out how to connect all of the nation to high-speed Internet Pound for pound, Flutie was awesome. But he was also short (5'10). Which is to say, even though we've got great wireless networks and technology now, we won't be able to compete...
DougFlutie, Chicago Bears: Sure, Jay Cutler’s jumping TD run was impressive, but let’s not forget all those times Flutie ran between guys’ legs back in ‘86. (Found by Jeff at Soldier Field.)
... Calgary head coach John Hufnagel, who has worked with some of the game’s finest quarterbacks, from DougFlutie to Peyton Manning to Tom Brady, also sang a few notes in praise of Durant. “I’m very impressed with the way he plays the position,” said Hufnagel, who was asked if he’d be warning the Stampeders defence not to overlook the quarterback in its haste to slow Cates. “I’m telling...
... I remember a long time ago the Buffalo Bills had a quarterback duel between Brad Johnson and DougFlutie. Brad Johnson had the size and arm and polish that made him look like a clear winner. DougFlutie was small with less deep ball ability. DougFlutie had one skill Brad Johnson didn't, Doug could run for his life. Buffalo didn't have an offensive...
... recently, American fans are aware that a number of NFL stars got their start in the CFL including DougFlutie, Jim Kelly, and Jeff Garcia.While the CFL plays football at the highest professional level of competition outside of the NFL, there are a few differences in the game:First of all, the football itself is bigger–the CFL ball is larger than its American counterpart. If you know...
... and can read a defence – the only knock on him is his height, but this is a league where DougFlutie and Jeff Garcia showed you don't have to be that big to excel ... it's a shame.' " It is past the point of saying, oh well, it would be nice if more "played-in-Canada" quarterbacks (Young's phrase) got a legitimate shot in the CFL. It goes deeper. For one, where's...
... a fourth-quarter field goal. October 25, 1998: Bills 30, Panthers 14 Eric Moulds hooked up with DougFlutie for a 20-yard TD and Steve Christie kicked a 42-yard field goal to give the Bills a 10-0 lead. William Floyd's one-yard TD plunge brought Carolina to within 3 points, but Moulds and Flutie hooked up again, this time for 82 yards. That was all the Bills would need, but...
1984. Was a good year for men. It was the year the Supreme Court ruled, in NCAA v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma, that the NCAA's television plan violated anti-trust rules and allowed for individual schools to negotiate their own broadcast contracts. In 1984, ESPN started broadcasting its "College Football Saturday Primetime." And the year of DougFlutie's historic Hail Mary...
“I was happy to sell about 250 Pats/Wembley packages in this economy,” said Daniel Pranks, founder of New England Sports Tours. “But the event is nowhere near as big as the Super Bowl or DougFlutie’s appearance in the Cotton Bowl, when we took 2,000, or the 1,200 we take on our party train to New York when the Sox play the .”
“Massachusetts may have the best health care in the country, but it doesn’t cover the treatment for the fastest-growing health threat to children – autism,” writes ex-NFL quarterback DougFlutie, in the Boston Globe. “More than 500 babies born this year in Massachusetts will soon be diagnosed with autism. What their parents will learn first – what my...
… which is a real PITA for his publicist. Blogs: where terrible jokes get their chance to shine. Word from home is that Auster’s new book INVISIBLE, forthcoming from Henry Holt, arrived in today’s mail. I greet the occasion of new Auster with excitement, but it’s a DougFlutie sort of excitement – it’s awesome until you [...]
... opinion, anyway, was a better goalie than the guy who was starting (I think he suffered from the DougFlutie problem as well - everyone wants the big goalie). The problem with good backups is that someone always needs a starter and will thus take your backup away unless you want to pay them more money than a backup normally should earn. Having a backup you can count on for an extended...
... sporting icons--Andre Agassi (tennis); Mia Hamm (women's soccer); David Robinson (basketball) and DougFlutie (American football). The famous quartet were lauded not for their sporting prowess, as such, but for the way they had used their talent, success and high-profile names to set up personal charitable foundations for the less privileged-education and autism programmes for example....
