Bring Back The Natick Native

The Pats picked up Doug Flutie today. When he takes the field for the first exhibiton game he comes in for.........



Having Doug as a backup would put Pat Nation on a Natural High.


Sources are siting that Doug is openly voicing a desire to come back to the Patriots. He was recently seen at a B.C. game and is back at his homestead in Natick as usual in the off-season. Recently cut by the Chargers he is saying that he would like to play backup for one more year and sees the Patriots as a perfect choice.

Ever since his going to the CFL and taking it by storm, then returning to the NFL for some dramatic memories in Buffalo and the infamous benching of him in the playoffs for Rob Johnson. To his one starting year with the Chargers, I have thought about how great it would be to get the man that put B.C. Football on map back on the Pats. His legions of fans in New England will remain as long as they're alive and his Hail Mary pass will live on as one of the greatest highlights in college football history. I met Doug back in 1988 at an invite only autograph signing. I told him how I played Pop Warner football and wanted to be just like him and he rubbed my head and told me to never give up and try hard all the time. That statement speaks for his play on the field to this day.

The fans of New England would be ecstatic if he was picked up. Jim Miller has moved on and there is a spot that needs to be filled with just Rohan Davey as a backup to Tom Brady. Imagine the ovation that will occur if Doug takes the field in an exhibition game before the season starts. I can see Tom laughing on the sidelines already.

His agent is quoted in the Boston Herald today as saying it's a long shot, but he'd love to finish his career as a backup to Brady. "I don't see myself playing beyond next year, unless it's under unique circumstances,'' Flutie said.-By Lenny Megliola/ Metrowest Daily NewsSaturday, March 12, 2005

Playing a few miles away from Natick sounds like unique circumstances to me. Now if it could only make sense to the man that has no place in his heart for emotions when it comes to winning. Can Bill find it in his heart to give us a gift from all the emotionally scaring cuts he's put us through, and can we be lucky enough to have a love affair with our homeboy Doug Flutie rekindled?.........