Yup. I think that the Bills really didn't want Flutie to succeed and wanted to go...."see he is too small". The only thing they did by bringing in Johnson was kiss their chance at a Super Bowl championship goodbye!
I am Canadian, so I had the privilege of watching Flutie play every week for years in the CFL. It was great. When he went to the Bills, we all had a very strong feeling that his new coaching staff wouldn't give him a fair shake. There has never been a player that was forced to prove himself over and over again. It was if all of his past achievements were viewed as freak occurrences and that he wouldn't be able to pull them off again. But nope, Flutie kept wowing the fans. Dude was the man. He showed that having a brain was the most important aspect of being a good fuuuseball player.
Wade is an idiot. He should have never sent in Christie to kick with so much time left on the clock. A real head coach would have made sure that field goal was the final play of the game.
“In hindsight, Doug probably would have one the game”. .....and possibly the super bowl. Probably the most overlooked guy in NFL history, just ask the CFL. His playing style was very similar to Russell Wilson’s.
Manziel reminded me more of Flutie than Wilson. They were like watching created players. Wilson’s exciting to watch of course but Flutie and Manziel had a certain franticness and unpredictability to their playing styles that were really hard to believe. Houdinis on the football field.
4DhumanInstrumentality Manziel wasn’t special, most somewhat mobile qbs could’ve done what he did. All he did was throw jump balls to Evans. Evans was the true miracle worker
His sack numbers are really amazing, it’s really telling that QBs that were probably worse than him came in and got sacked way less than he did, a QB who loses yardage more than gains is not a good QB, at all
It's not the size of the dog in a fight... it's the size of the interior O-line making passing lanes for the undersized QB. Learned that from Drew Brees! (The pun was excellent, though...)
Rob Johnson was a goon unit. Passed the eye test. Flutie was Quarterback. Coaches need to be able to recognize this more effectively for the NFL to field the best product.
@Dan Thomas Best part is that Flutie handled the entire situation with nothing but class, just as he did for his entire career. That Music City Miracle would have called back nowadays thanks to instant replay and the coaches challenge.
@@VOD713 The funny thing is statistically giving it to beast mode was the wrong play as he was terrible on converting in the red zone for whatever reason. That being said, they had a timeout i believe and absolutely should have given him the ball. He was having an amazing game on a career year and it was the superbowl, how do you not trust him, statistics be damned
That was one of the worst, if not the worst decision I've ever seen. Why the hell would you start a qb who hasn't got any playing time, IN THE PLAY OFFS, while Flutie didn't even play bad??
Flutie whenever he's been given a chance to start has always performed. A good QB is a good QB. Same idiot NFL minds that drafted Tom Brady at #199 because he had a slow 40 yard dash time.
@@alwillk Combine that with the number of sacks that Johnson suffered and I wonder if Flutie's mobility was just what a bad offensive line needed from a QB. A bad offensive line might have caused Flutie's mediocre QB rating.
As a lifetime Argos fan, my fave QB has always been Doug. So happy to watch him with the Bills, mainly because I knew he wasn't playing against my Argos...
what do you expect--Ralph Wilson was demented--and had been for years--after the Bills made the playoffs in both 1980-1981 he lets Chuck Knox go to Seattle because he wouldn't renegotiate his contract---complete useless owner
Doug had what’s scouts cannot measure- they can’t judge the heart. he’s a winner. That’s why scouts are idiots. Thank you Doug for all those great moments!
,fits perfectly with the biblical story of Saul he was,picked as the king beacuse if his height and appearance. GOD CHOSE DAVID NOT A MAN OF HEIGHT BUT CHOSEN BUy God
Yeah, ESPECIALLY with all these QBs making gangbusters amount of cash. Even veterans like Brady and Brees are making bank. If Buffalo is smart (which isn't likely because Rex Ryan sucks) they'll pay Tyrod.
Rob Ryan is an idiot I remember when the Saints hired him I said how shitty he was and that pissed all the Saints fans off but he lives in his dads and even brothers shadow.
All Doug's accomplishments, all those years of entertaining play. Voted the greatest player in 100 years of the CFL. He's a guy you just had to root for.
I think I know what Chuck meant. Bringing in Rex and Rob was a bad move by ownership. Time will tell, but nobody I know thought that was a good idea in the least.
Pegula messed up the Sabres too when he first bought them by keeping that useless duo of Ruff and Regere--only now is the team rebuilding---the Bills will be the same-no playoff game in 2016 means the Ryan brothers (and hopefully that moron Doug Whaley too) will be gone
SO competitive and EXCITING...No wonder he got a breakfast cereal named after him, oh, have you ever seen, Everybody Loves Raymond, they had his cereal on their fridge for 3 seasons or so, NOT, the same box, or, it COULD have been a collectible???!!!!!
@@SpeedRacerXM5 No it was not a forward lateral. I wasn't rooting for the Titans. They replayed that over and over and it was obvious it was legit. Close but legit. The reason it looks like it may be a forward lateral is because of the camera angle and where the receiver's body was when he caught it.
I’m hopin I grow taller im sophomore quarterback right now at 5”10 170 15 years old and people tell me to switch to running back while I can because I’ll never play a snap of varsity football at quarterback, I’m currently on JV right now and next year I’ll be competing against a 6”2 190 quarterback that is the talk of the town and is ranked in top 25 in his class of 2024 I’m 1 year older but he’s really supposed to be a junior or senior cause I played youth football with him and he was older than me and the higher divisions
@Griff Benoit I was born in 2005 and he was born in 2003 or 2004 but held himself back like two or 3 years so in the years we graduate my year comes before his because he held himself back to play against younger guys, I graduate 2023 and he graduates 2024 when he was actually supposed to either graduate 2021 or 2022
Wade Philips has stated in interviews that it was Wilson who pressured him to make the switch--Wilson was responsible--why would you insert Johnson into a playoff game after Flutie had been far and away more consistent---Wilson made the change based on the season finale against Indianapolis where Johnson had one of the very few games he played adequately--and even then it was a meaningless game anyway
The Doug Flutie era was a magical time in Buffalo. Every time he took a snap, you really believed ANYTHING could happen, and so often, it did. It was an enchanted time for Bills Fans everywhere. Just ask anybody who experienced Flutie magic, and you'll instantly see their eyes light-up with exciting memories of the Magic Flutie.
I live near Buffalo. During the Titans wild card game I said if they started Rob Johnson they would never make the playoffs again. I was 8. 16 years later they are proving me right.
The most classless move of Ralph Wilson and the Buffalo Bills history. Bills had no business even being in that game given Johnson's disastrous, keystone cops first half. Their defense was that good. The Tennessee miracle was karma.
this was only one of many many dumb ass moves Ralph Wilson made---not resigning head coach Chuck Knox after the 1982 season (even though Knox has taken a 1-13 team to the playoffs in 1980/1981) and also firing GM Bill Polian (the architect of the 4 Super Bowl teams) in 1993 over an argument Polian had with the team's treasurer (Jeff Lipton) was another--the constant theme with Wilson was that he wouldn't let the coaches coach-he was always meddling in the team's affairs when he didn't have a clue what he was doing---meanwhile just down the freeway from Buffalo the Rooney family was winning 6 Super Bowls in Pittsburgh BECAUSE they let the coaches coach and didn't interfere at all (whereas Buffalo had a revolving door of coaches-Pittsburgh never fired any of their coaches (Noll, Cowher etc)
As much as Ralph Wilson is somewhat beloved for his commitment to Buffalo Bills and keeping the team in the city, for the most part, the Reality is he was a bumbling owner who ran the team into the ground on almost every occasion. His decisions were often mind-boggling dumb.
So very true. Even more damaging was alienating both Bill Polian and John Butler, two GMs that went elsewhere and had great success after leaving Buffalo.
Wilson surrounded himself with "Yes" men--case in point Russ Brandon and Doug Whaley--although the Pegula's didn't "clean house" right after they bought the team-they ultimately came to realize that they needed to get rid of every last vestige of Wilson's disastrous regime--now with new management (McDermott and GM Beane) the Bills are finally competitive
Doug Flutie was voted the greatest player in the history of the Canadian Football League a few years ago. With the bigger Canadian field, the little man could use his running ability to get into the open field and throw the ball all over the place. He was really exciting to watch. Too bad that the NFL wanted tall but immobile QBs who would stay in the pocket. Well, the Bills selected the great Rob Johnson for that game in Nashville and look what happened. If Doug had been the QB, there probably would have been no music city miracle.
Starting Rob Johnson over Flutie was one of my least favorite moment being a Bills fan. We were all pissed off. Buffalo fans absolutely loved Flutie, and embraced his under-dog mentality. He epitomized are city, as a hard-working blue collar type player. I was so pissed when they started Johnson, and then still didn't make a change during the game when Rob was playing terrible.
I know and they left him in! All because they had blown money on Rob Johnson. I’m sure everyone would rather win! Flutie was a boss his awareness and decision making was great such a smart qb. You gotta play flutie in the wild card game.
As a Canadian growing up watching CFL Flutie was my fav QB. He just came off back to back Greycup wins with the Argos. I was already a Bills fan so I was ecstatic when he signed with the Bills. To see him come in and tear it up like that was magic. It was mind boggling when they started Johnson but they got what they deserved. A part of this story that no one talks about is a few years later when Flutie played for the Chargers, they played the Bills and all the hype was Johnson vs Flutie. I can tell you Bills fan or not I was rooting for Doug. Late in the game Rob Johnson ran it in the endzone to give Buffalo the lead but Flutie came right back and ran it in for the winning TD. Truley a great moment I'll never forget.
Actually, experts would probably be able to easily measure Doug's heart, its height width and size for starters, maybe toss in temperature and pressure...
Well this is beyond stupid. Let's bench the guy who helped bring the team to the playoffs and play a guy who has see little action on the field since Flutie played all those games. Smart.
@@jimlascola most of these clowns aren't using gangster rap but the new skinny jeans wearing fake rappers. Please dont confuse real hip hop music rappers with these guys.
Gotta remember Flutie came from the CFL. All those years he ripped the CFL up. He had a bigger field to scramble around. He had so much room to scramble and was always a big part of his game. Then brought that confidence in his run game back to the NFL. He had a pretty deadly career. He leveled up the CFL with just his presence.
12 years I gave to this organization, from the age of a 10, I still remember Norwood missing against the giants, this broke my heart, and never again can I give any love to this team.
Doug Flutie is one of my all-time favorite NFL players. He never really got the chance to play in the NFL like he deserved. The Tennessee miracle play is a perfect example of karma. The Buffalo Bills treated Flutie unfairly by taking his starting job so it was poetic justice that the Bills lost that game. The ultimate irony in Flutie's career is that he's only 1 inch shorter than Drew Brees (who has not been discriminated against throughout his career even though he's about the same height as Flutie).
It wasn't the Bills but their stupid, demented owner Ralph Wilson--Wilson forced the Bills coach at that time (Wade Phillips) to start Rob Johnson instead of Flutie--even though Flutie was playing well going into the playoffs--just was just one of so many lame brained moves by the absolute worst owner in NFL history---this year they changed the name of the Bills home field from Ralph Wilson stadium to New Era Stadium---interestingly the Bills have now won 4 straight games going into Week 7 (2016)---I bet getting the name change has helped remove the last vestige of that moron's influence and hence the team is improving
Yes, I realize that Ralph Wilson was behind the bad decision to start Johnson. However, I still blame Wade Philips for publicly overpraising Johnson while not doing the same for Flutie when he was winning games. Whether he intended it or not, he gave fans the impression that he did not have confidence in Flutie.
But I always figured that if they'd won that game, Rob would go back to normal and play stupidly in the next game, prompting Wade Philips to bench him right quick and put Flutie back in where he belonged. It wouldn't even have to be really BAD stupid play; just something that he could use as an excuse to get Flutie back in. That "Music City Massacre" physically hurts Every. Single. Time. I remember it. Doug just MIGHT have had a chance to play for a ring.
Jeff Fraley the announcer is Ted Leitner and if you know his style of broadcasting he was taking a dig at the critics of Fluties size. I have been listening to him do games for over forty years and he is very good at his job.
One of my favorite Flutie plays was when Belichick brought him out for a drop-kick extra point in the last game of the season against the Dolphins. Of course Flutie nailed it.
In 1986, there was a Monday Night Football game in which Chicago Bears quarterbacks Jim McMahon and Doug Flutie were shown drop kicking before the game. The announcers said that they were the only 2 players who knew how to dropkick and that it hadn't been done in a game in decades. For the next 20 years after that, I would often check the sports section of the newspaper to see if Flutie had done a dropkick that week. When he signed with the Patriots, many fans knew that Belichick was a historian of football and he might give Flutie a chance to do it. Seeing him actually do it was one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE PLAYS because I had waited for so long. FYI. I have a photo of Flutie's dropkick on my wall.
@Spartacus That is very interesting. I have a hard time picturing McMahon doing it, even though he was as crazy as they come. That is why I love Belichick so much; in addition to being a great planner and game coach, he appreciates the history of it at the same time.
yeah hes cool because he will give certain players a chance that others wont. and bring in old guys that can be teachers and mentors to younger guys and pass on knowledge. he brought in tebow, moss and the old qbs testaverde and flutie
Mr. Flutie if you're reading this, please know that without you & your character, your Heart, to serve me personally as an example to never EVER quit, I'd never would've graduated from Law School. I was similar to you as well. I was always the smaller player, & in High School I was the starting QB, & got my team to the playoff twice. My University Studies were to important for me to even consider being a walk -on. You're my man Mr. Flutie.
Rob Johnson was terrible.....Bills deserved to lose that playoff game to the Titans after starting Johnson instead of Flutie...And lived in Buffalo most of my life!
Saw flutie at a Home Depot in Henrietta NY on birthday as a kid. He autographed some flutie flakes and my jersey. I loved watching him play as a young kid and I’ll never forget how nice he was to me. Standup guy and a legend imo.
One of the worst day of my life time.... !!! Why..? That's why the people with suits should be past players who will understand the game better. Thanks Doug you make us proud to be BILLS*
You obviously don't know what you're saying. I'm not even a Jacksonville fan and I'll recognize that they're a team on the rise. Sure to be a playoff contender this year.
They've had 5 consecutive losing seasons and haven't had a winning season in 9 years. With the Texans and Colts leading the division, the Jags are far from "sure playoff contenders." They may be on the rise, but there is a long ladder to climb to get up there from the bottom, especially since they are just doing what they've been doing. Give them a few more seasons.
+ilyearer they do have many talented young players, they have a shot in seasons to come when they become more experienced but I'm saying that they won't go undefeated sadly they never been to the super bowl.
I still have my Flutie jersey. Man it was awesome watching him play. Props to the Patriots and Belichick for allowing Flutie set a new record in his last game.
5:27 I remember when the Bills made that announcement. It made no sense under the circumstances. They blew it! When you have magic in the bottle like they did with Flutie, you have to keep going with it...
Flutie was the last Bills quarterback that was decent. The biggest slap in the face to Flutie was starting Johnson over Doug. If they hadn't it might of been the Bills and the Rams in the Super Bowl.
Fitz was...acceptable. Just as hes always been. Fitz will never win a game for you, but hes pretty good about not losing them either. After Flutie, the Bills managed to squeeze 2 good years out of Bledsoe and that was the end of the Bills and QBs
Fitzpatrick is not "decent"--The Jets are now finding out what the Bills learned a few years ago-Fitzpatrick might be an average backup QB but he is not a starter---the Jets are now 1-5 this year (the game he played against KC earlier this year where he threw 6 INT-was the worst game I've seen since Sanchez was in NY)-in addition Chan Gailey is also useless--he was literally run out of town when he coached in Buffalo-16-32 W-L record when he coached
cardinalsrule 345 no the average height 4 White man is 5 foot 10. For other ethnicities it can range differently but foremost is 5 foot 6. Being 6 feet is being considered tall Cultural standards.
The owner (Larry Ryckman, later controversy, but really nice TO ME!!!!!) of the Calgary Stampeders, while visiting OUR B.C. Lions, Doug had boarded the Calgary Stampeders team bus waiting to leave B.C. Place outside the corridor where I was, and the owner came towards our fans (Including me!!!), and I had my, The Magic Flutie Sports Illustrated that I REALLY wanted to be signed, and I thought, what an awesome, but IMPOSSIBLE(???) opportunity to get it signed (I'm not a professional autograph seeker...), well, the owner, Larry Rykman came toward us and talked a bit, and I told him how much I admired Doug and showed him my magazine, and he took my magazine, went to the team bus, got Doug to sign it and brought it back to me!!!!!!!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ryckman
That time I was living in Calgary Canada. We were always waiting for Sunday NFL to see Flutie. We couldn't believe what Buffalo did to him against Titans. It was very sad and it will be forever.
But its the HCs job to manage the roster. And if he said no, and he went out and won anyway, RWJ would have forgotten about it and moved on. Phillips buckled under pressure when he could have put his name on the line for his players
JKSSubstandard What if he had lost with Flutie? He would have been fired and most likely never given a second chance once it came out that he went against his owner's wishes.
Thats the risk you take. The point is, as a coach, as the guy in charge of the roster, if you think Flutie is the better player (and he was the starter all year) then you have to put your foot down, put your name on the line and do what you believe will get you the win. Instead, he buckled to pressure, made a bad decision and it cost the team a playoff win
It hurts to take the keys away from your grandparent when they become a liability to drive. Somebody should have done Ralph Wilson the same courtesy. Didn't see any return on their investment on Rob FreakinJohnson?! Way to pull that string during the playoffs. This still makes me sick.
You don't swap qb's in the playoffs, under any circumstances, but you definitely don't do it if you're swapping the guy who got you 10 wins for the guy who got you one, in a meaningless week 17 game. Terrible decision any way you look at it. What's funny too is that everyone knew it was a horrible decision at the time! If you watch the broadcast of the game that the nfl posted on their youtube channel, the commentators and the sideline reporter spend the whole game talking about how baffled they are about Johnson starting. Everyone knew then it was stupid, just as much as everyone knows now. How on earth did the Bills brass think this was a good idea??
TheDude4077 ... It was clearly a $$ issue. Rich owners worried about their money & not the team's success. The 1972' Miami Dolphins started Bob Griese in the first 5 games of the season & were 5-0 when Griese got injured. They put in back-up Errol Morral & he went 9-0 the rest of the season. Griese was fully recovered by the time the playoffs rolled around & they switched back to Griese for the Super Bowl. That's the only time I can think of where a team switched to a QB that was injured/out/benched most of the season & it worked out for them!!
Starting Rob Johnson was one of the Worst decisions in NFL history, Flutie would've won that game and probably take them to SB in a struggling AFC conference
I've hung out with Doug and his brother Darren Flutie at Matterhorn in Stowe, Vermont. His brother Darren has (had?) a band and Doug was (still is?) the drummer. Doug is a super nice guy. Really.
Flutie was inspirational for me growing up. I can relate to him and his height. If the bills would have supported they would have had a good chance on a super bowl run. They had an excellent team both offense and defense. The bills were hot that year and I'm a patent fan and I was rooting for flutie
Flutie was awesome, great in college, became the greatest QB in CFL history (by far), and became a Pro Bowl QB. The NFL being so obsessed with size costed them someone who could've become one of their all time great QB's, he was that good.
Watching this is like watching American films on WWII. It’s like Canada didn’t exist. Flutie played stellar play in Vancouver and was highly respected and appreciated in Canada winning Grey Cups.
"In Hind Sight .. Doug Prob would've won the game..." ya think ???? Wade Philips absolutely loved watching him fail in Dallas, worth every minute of it...
There's a reason why Wade is called the "lovable moron". He did it in Denver, Buffalo, Dallas, and the only reason he looked good this past year was that he had Jack Del Rio's defense handed to him.
Jack Del Rio is a moron who wasted 2014 Denver defense on playing prevent shit instead of bringing pressure all the time. I'm still pissed at him for assigning Talib on Hilton in that playoff game against the Colts
I was like 13 years old and Growing up a niners fan, I remember I was cheering for Doug Flutie, one of the nicest guys and such a hard working dude. Because of his size they screwed him and Bills, got what they deserved. He was so hot that, I’m sure they Tennessee miracle never happens. Rob Johnson
Only time I’ve ever been a football fan in my life. Lived in Cheektowaga Fall of 1998 and when Flutie took the helm, I tuned in. He was different, he was unpredictable and he was exciting. I remember buying boxes of Flutie Flakes at Wegman’s and selling them all over New England. It was a good gig!
I always supported our Bruins, Pats, Celts, and Sox and never had a second team. It was Boston or nothing. But when Flutie was playing for the Bills ...I have to admit I was pulling for them.
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Moral of the story:
You always dance with the girl that takes you to the dance.
I like that quote
Sry for almost a year later
Hey that's a good one
but take her friend to the cloak room
I don't know about you but I took girls to dances, not the other way around. So...I don't know where I am.
I was so angry what they did to Flutie, they totally disrespected him and they got what they deserved.
100% agreed
Yup. I think that the Bills really didn't want Flutie to succeed and wanted to go...."see he is too small". The only thing they did by bringing in Johnson was kiss their chance at a Super Bowl championship goodbye!
I am Canadian, so I had the privilege of watching Flutie play every week for years in the CFL. It was great. When he went to the Bills, we all had a very strong feeling that his new coaching staff wouldn't give him a fair shake. There has never been a player that was forced to prove himself over and over again. It was if all of his past achievements were viewed as freak occurrences and that he wouldn't be able to pull them off again. But nope, Flutie kept wowing the fans. Dude was the man. He showed that having a brain was the most important aspect of being a good fuuuseball player.
The Bills didn't deserve what happened! The owner not the coach or team made that stupid decision.
@@SteveDronzewski The owner is a part of the team.
"In hindsight ... Doug would probably won the game."
No, Wade ... not "probably"... He definitely would have.
Hindsight. God. Damn. His. Idiot. Move.
Wade is an idiot. He should have never sent in Christie to kick with so much time left on the clock. A real head coach would have made sure that field goal was the final play of the game.
Wade's biggest fault is he's a *yes man*
Why Jerry Jones hired him after Bill Parcells
Yes he would have and I think ? Gone the whole way and Super Bowl Victory.
Yes he would have he had what Johnson did not . Courage .
“In hindsight, Doug probably would have one the game”. .....and possibly the super bowl. Probably the most overlooked guy in NFL history, just ask the CFL. His playing style was very similar to Russell Wilson’s.
Manziel reminded me more of Flutie than Wilson. They were like watching created players. Wilson’s exciting to watch of course but Flutie and Manziel had a certain franticness and unpredictability to their playing styles that were really hard to believe. Houdinis on the football field.
Yes .
4DhumanInstrumentality Manziel wasn’t special, most somewhat mobile qbs could’ve done what he did. All he did was throw jump balls to Evans. Evans was the true miracle worker
Doug flutie walked so Russell Wilson could run
*won
Rob Johnson in the huddle calling his favorite play, "sack on one, ready break."
His sack numbers are really amazing, it’s really telling that QBs that were probably worse than him came in and got sacked way less than he did, a QB who loses yardage more than gains is not a good QB, at all
Johnson was accurately diagnosed with "Hangontotheballtolongatitis"
Well said 🤣🤣
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It's not the size of the dog in a fight... but it's the size of the fight in a Doug
kiLLjoy24CALI gay
😂 that made me snort-laugh
Oh shut up with that cheesy ass line.
It's not the size of the dog in a fight... it's the size of the interior O-line making passing lanes for the undersized QB. Learned that from Drew Brees! (The pun was excellent, though...)
@@RonJohn63 yes sir bro finally a comment respecting linemen respect to you
The Bills organization got some nice karma from this decision.
17 years worth of it and it killed all of us fans
They couldn’t live with the fact that they were wrong about Flutie and that they paid that tall bum a lot of money
@@jamessanders145 What if.......... Brady is gone but got Cam.... Yikes!!
@@koichinishi9075 I'm not worried. He still doesn't have any offensive weapons to work with.
No you can’t say that. Both quarterbacks were great.
Rob Johnson was a goon unit. Passed the eye test. Flutie was Quarterback. Coaches need to be able to recognize this more effectively for the NFL to field the best product.
The Bills’ best quarterback after Jim Kelly, and he gets benched.
That’s the Bills for you.
@Dan Thomas Best part is that Flutie handled the entire situation with nothing but class, just as he did for his entire career. That Music City Miracle would have called back nowadays thanks to instant replay and the coaches challenge.
Similar to not running with Beast Mode in the Súper Bowl
Classic
@@blacklabelholsters1635 I watched it live and I could have swore the booth reviewed it and the play stood.
@@VOD713 The funny thing is statistically giving it to beast mode was the wrong play as he was terrible on converting in the red zone for whatever reason. That being said, they had a timeout i believe and absolutely should have given him the ball. He was having an amazing game on a career year and it was the superbowl, how do you not trust him, statistics be damned
That was one of the worst, if not the worst decision I've ever seen. Why the hell would you start a qb who hasn't got any playing time, IN THE PLAY OFFS, while Flutie didn't even play bad??
NFL is political , not a true game , like minor league ( CFL)
Killian - @aykillian lol because they saw one good meaningless game
starlord he played the whole season and played later he has his own football life
Ralph Wilson was in the beginning stages of senility... Buffalo had a top three defense that year and he cost us possibly a Super Bowl win
Flutie whenever he's been given a chance to start has always performed. A good QB is a good QB. Same idiot NFL minds that drafted Tom Brady at #199 because he had a slow 40 yard dash time.
I remember my Dolphins sacking Rob Johnson 7 times in one game. Rob was a statue back there but Doug Floutie terrified us Dolfans.
He was MAGIC!!!!!
Flutie was 4-2 vs Miami in his career, but his rating was just 76.4.
@@alwillk Combine that with the number of sacks that Johnson suffered and I wonder if Flutie's mobility was just what a bad offensive line needed from a QB. A bad offensive line might have caused Flutie's mediocre QB rating.
I remember having Flutie and Jeff Garcia as QB's in Calgary for the Stamps, probably the best duo in all of football at that time.
As a lifetime Argos fan, my fave QB has always been Doug. So happy to watch him with the Bills, mainly because I knew he wasn't playing against my Argos...
His brother, Darren, did him and his Stamp's in, IN the 1994 Western Final in a snowstorm, WHAT A GAME...2, Magic Fluties???!!!!!
Flutie is the poster boy for size discrimination. If he played in this era, he'd be on his way to the hall of fame.
Woah there buddy slow down
Don Mcdonald he Would’ve been Russell Wilson
It’s about playmaking. In the moment decision making and execution. Doug was excellent.
Drew Brees
I agree. But Flutie will just have to be content with the two other Hall of Fames he's in.
One of the dumbest moves in NFL history by Ralph Wilson to bench Flutie.
what do you expect--Ralph Wilson was demented--and had been for years--after the Bills made the playoffs in both 1980-1981 he lets Chuck Knox go to Seattle because he wouldn't renegotiate his contract---complete useless owner
Neil Joseph this will probably happen again with Romo being worked in for the playoffs at some point.
david graham Hopefully the Pegula's will do a much better job.
Neil Joseph the worst ... absolutely and it will carry with them for many more years. playoffs in 2060
It wasn’t Ralph it was the manager
Doug had what’s scouts cannot measure- they can’t judge the heart. he’s a winner.
That’s why scouts are idiots.
Thank you Doug for all those great moments!
Why do you think Rocky Balboa won the title after losing twice to Creed and Clubbe? It's because he had heart!
He had a career 76.3 rating. Pretty mediocre.
@@alwillk
blah blah blah
Get out moron.
I loved Flutiemania, I love an underdog story, who doesn’t?
djpooky the bills
There was Flutie mania with the fans in every city he played in. I've never seen a more enjoyable quarterback to watch him play. Magic.
I LOVED his debut against San Diego!!!!!!!!
@@zachpaymyloan9270 I think that anger should fall on bills management not flutie, the dumb decisions here led to 20 years of futility
He was a winner, plain and simple. Too bad so many of his head coaches were more comfortable with a loser who was taller.
Bingo! Great comment!
,fits perfectly with the biblical story of Saul he was,picked as the king beacuse if his height and appearance. GOD CHOSE DAVID NOT A MAN OF HEIGHT BUT CHOSEN BUy God
As a die hard bills fan the organization deserved it.
Yeah, CRAZY, because of his SIZE, he's GOTTA be better...
Just like Tebow. Tebow wins. Is that the point of playing football? To win?
Benching a pro bowl QB that got you to the playoffs. I think this would NEVER happen in today's NFL.
Yeah, ESPECIALLY with all these QBs making gangbusters amount of cash. Even veterans like Brady and Brees are making bank. If Buffalo is smart (which isn't likely because Rex Ryan sucks) they'll pay Tyrod.
Well, we did it. What a damn mistake that was
WeThePeople come on man, we're the bills, we do the stupidest things
Ever heard of Alex Smith lol
Rob Ryan is an idiot I remember when the Saints hired him I said how shitty he was and that pissed all the Saints fans off but he lives in his dads and even brothers shadow.
All Doug's accomplishments, all those years of entertaining play. Voted the greatest player in 100 years of the CFL. He's a guy you just had to root for.
I remember this benching of Flutie and I was like WTF?! BILLS DESERVED TO LOSE THIS GAME!
As a Bills fan it;s so clear that karma is a Bitch. should have been Flutie
Implying a Flutie curse?... Or just really crappy weather keeping top players away. Its a toss up :-)
its not karma. its HORRIBLE ownership and you still have it. Rex AND Rob? lmfao
Rex and Rob aren't owners dumbass.
But I'm not going to argue the terrible weather comment. The Blizzard of 2014 and 77 says your right.
I think I know what Chuck meant. Bringing in Rex and Rob was a bad move by ownership. Time will tell, but nobody I know thought that was a good idea in the least.
Pegula messed up the Sabres too when he first bought them by keeping that useless duo of Ruff and Regere--only now is the team rebuilding---the Bills will be the same-no playoff game in 2016 means the Ryan brothers (and hopefully that moron Doug Whaley too) will be gone
I remember the game like it was yesterday.
I’m still pissed.
Flutie was one of the greatest QBs to ever play the game in both the CFL and NFL
Also it was a forward lateral....!!!! Which would have given flutie another game...
You can see the ball tips tossed fwd as t least a yd...
Jeff Garcia
SO competitive and EXCITING...No wonder he got a breakfast cereal named after him, oh, have you ever seen, Everybody Loves Raymond, they had his cereal on their fridge for 3 seasons or so, NOT, the same box, or, it COULD have been a collectible???!!!!!
In the NFL? 76.3 rating. College and CFL, but they are different leagues.
@@SpeedRacerXM5 No it was not a forward lateral. I wasn't rooting for the Titans. They replayed that over and over and it was obvious it was legit. Close but legit. The reason it looks like it may be a forward lateral is because of the camera angle and where the receiver's body was when he caught it.
I met Doug, really nice guy. He is 5'10"
I’m hopin I grow taller im sophomore quarterback right now at 5”10 170 15 years old and people tell me to switch to running back while I can because I’ll never play a snap of varsity football at quarterback, I’m currently on JV right now and next year I’ll be competing against a 6”2 190 quarterback that is the talk of the town and is ranked in top 25 in his class of 2024 I’m 1 year older but he’s really supposed to be a junior or senior cause I played youth football with him and he was older than me and the higher divisions
He’s on varsity right now as a “freshman”
@American Muscle thanks man preciate it 🙏🏽 I’ll just worry about me and my grind
@Griff Benoit I was born in 2005 and he was born in 2003 or 2004 but held himself back like two or 3 years so in the years we graduate my year comes before his because he held himself back to play against younger guys, I graduate 2023 and he graduates 2024 when he was actually supposed to either graduate 2021 or 2022
they said the same thing about mike tyson who is also 5'10"
Wade, you couldn’t convince the owner to let Flutie start? C’mon.
Well look what Jerry does in Dallas ? I pay the money I get my way .
I really thought I think we all really thought mr. Wilson stayed of the way
@@Davidjon1946 He was like all the owners they think because they are rich they know better .
Wade was nothing but a company man throughout his coaching career
@@michaelmarshall1713 that's why Kraft is a great owner the dude just let's the coaches do there thing
I've always loved Doug Flutie. He played hard, kept his trap shut, and stayed out of trouble. I miss seeing his jump pass!
the Music City miracle was karma for starting Rob Johnson
sequoia1171 for sure. I'm still bitter over that
SRVstiger still stings to this day
what do you expect when your team's owner (Ralph Wilson) is a demented moron who didn't have a clue how to run a team
david graham I'm pretty sure it was the general manager, not Ralph.
Wade Philips has stated in interviews that it was Wilson who pressured him to make the switch--Wilson was responsible--why would you insert Johnson into a playoff game after Flutie had been far and away more consistent---Wilson made the change based on the season finale against Indianapolis where Johnson had one of the very few games he played adequately--and even then it was a meaningless game anyway
I love nfl films 🥺 especially when they do stuff relating to the 90s. It’s so dramatic and theatrical
The Doug Flutie era was a magical time in Buffalo. Every time he took a snap, you really believed ANYTHING could happen, and so often, it did. It was an enchanted time for Bills Fans everywhere. Just ask anybody who experienced Flutie magic, and you'll instantly see their eyes light-up with exciting memories of the Magic Flutie.
Real simple... "you dance with who brung ya"
Damn this a nice quote. Gonna steal it.
Except in Buffalo at the time. It's like benching Aaron Rodgers for Joe Flacco!
@Harry Engel
Hey you're absolutely right.
Amen
I live near Buffalo. During the Titans wild card game I said if they started Rob Johnson they would never make the playoffs again. I was 8. 16 years later they are proving me right.
Road House damn
you cursed them good job dude
Well, they are in the playoffs now playing in January 2018
Close. It took 17 years to make it again.
The most classless move of Ralph Wilson and the Buffalo Bills history. Bills had no business even being in that game given Johnson's disastrous, keystone cops first half. Their defense was that good. The Tennessee miracle was karma.
this was only one of many many dumb ass moves Ralph Wilson made---not resigning head coach Chuck Knox after the 1982 season (even though Knox has taken a 1-13 team to the playoffs in 1980/1981) and also firing GM Bill Polian (the architect of the 4 Super Bowl teams) in 1993 over an argument Polian had with the team's treasurer (Jeff Lipton) was another--the constant theme with Wilson was that he wouldn't let the coaches coach-he was always meddling in the team's affairs when he didn't have a clue what he was doing---meanwhile just down the freeway from Buffalo the Rooney family was winning 6 Super Bowls in Pittsburgh BECAUSE they let the coaches coach and didn't interfere at all (whereas Buffalo had a revolving door of coaches-Pittsburgh never fired any of their coaches (Noll, Cowher etc)
I seriously lost part of my soul when they started rob...
As much as Ralph Wilson is somewhat beloved for his commitment to Buffalo Bills and keeping the team in the city, for the most part, the Reality is he was a bumbling owner who ran the team into the ground on almost every occasion. His decisions were often mind-boggling dumb.
So very true. Even more damaging was alienating both Bill Polian and John Butler, two GMs that went elsewhere and had great success after leaving Buffalo.
Wilson surrounded himself with "Yes" men--case in point Russ Brandon and Doug Whaley--although the Pegula's didn't "clean house" right after they bought the team-they ultimately came to realize that they needed to get rid of every last vestige of Wilson's disastrous regime--now with new management (McDermott and GM Beane) the Bills are finally competitive
Things have been great since the Pegula's took over..
Doug Flutie was voted the greatest player in the history of the Canadian Football League a few years ago. With the bigger Canadian field, the little man could use his running ability to get into the open field and throw the ball all over the place. He was really exciting to watch. Too bad that the NFL wanted tall but immobile QBs who would stay in the pocket. Well, the Bills selected the great Rob Johnson for that game in Nashville and look what happened. If Doug had been the QB, there probably would have been no music city miracle.
Hard not to love Flutie ! He was a warrior with class
At one time my favorite QB ever so glad he broke every Canadian record there was for a QB. Even happier he got some NFL time. Class act also
Starting Rob Johnson over Flutie was one of my least favorite moment being a Bills fan. We were all pissed off. Buffalo fans absolutely loved Flutie, and embraced his under-dog mentality. He epitomized are city, as a hard-working blue collar type player. I was so pissed when they started Johnson, and then still didn't make a change during the game when Rob was playing terrible.
I was heart broken , had so much faith in Flutie !
I know and they left him in! All because they had blown money on Rob Johnson. I’m sure everyone would rather win! Flutie was a boss his awareness and decision making was great such a smart qb. You gotta play flutie in the wild card game.
it was simply bad ownership, that plagued the Bills from 1989-2007
"What good would a championship do me? All that means is everybody wants a raise." - Ralph Wilson
Yeah but had the special teams did their job on kickoff then your not mad
As a Canadian growing up watching CFL Flutie was my fav QB. He just came off back to back Greycup wins with the Argos. I was already a Bills fan so I was ecstatic when he signed with the Bills. To see him come in and tear it up like that was magic. It was mind boggling when they started Johnson but they got what they deserved. A part of this story that no one talks about is a few years later when Flutie played for the Chargers, they played the Bills and all the hype was Johnson vs Flutie. I can tell you Bills fan or not I was rooting for Doug. Late in the game Rob Johnson ran it in the endzone to give Buffalo the lead but Flutie came right back and ran it in for the winning TD. Truley a great moment I'll never forget.
Experts can never measure a players heart and Doug had a lot of heart.
Actually, experts would probably be able to easily measure Doug's heart, its height width and size for starters, maybe toss in temperature and pressure...
Dear Mr. Flutie, Thank you for all of the excitement and all of the professionalism. Never forgotten.
Well this is beyond stupid. Let's bench the guy who helped bring the team to the playoffs and play a guy who has see little action on the field since Flutie played all those games. Smart.
Kind of like Tyrod Taylor
Smart comment babygirl✌🙌
Man I love NFL films. You guys do the best work.
And ZERO Gangster Rap for their music
@@jimlascola most of these clowns aren't using gangster rap but the new skinny jeans wearing fake rappers. Please dont confuse real hip hop music rappers with these guys.
The 80's r like beatn sinnead o'connor in a n irish notre dame contest
you get paid to say stupid sh*t bonehead ?
Hell yea
Gotta remember Flutie came from the CFL. All those years he ripped the CFL up. He had a bigger field to scramble around. He had so much room to scramble and was always a big part of his game. Then brought that confidence in his run game back to the NFL. He had a pretty deadly career. He leveled up the CFL with just his presence.
12 years I gave to this organization, from the age of a 10, I still remember Norwood missing against the giants, this broke my heart, and never again can I give any love to this team.
Sean Bartman Bartman? Are you the cousin of Steve Bartman?
Rookies win games... Flutie won hearts.
Doug Flutie is one of my all-time favorite NFL players. He never really got the chance to play in the NFL like he deserved. The Tennessee miracle play is a perfect example of karma. The Buffalo Bills treated Flutie unfairly by taking his starting job so it was poetic justice that the Bills lost that game. The ultimate irony in Flutie's career is that he's only 1 inch shorter than Drew Brees (who has not been discriminated against throughout his career even though he's about the same height as Flutie).
flutie was shorter than listed. more like 5'8. officially listed at 5'10. and players werent measured for height at combine back then
It wasn't the Bills but their stupid, demented owner Ralph Wilson--Wilson forced the Bills coach at that time (Wade Phillips) to start Rob Johnson instead of Flutie--even though Flutie was playing well going into the playoffs--just was just one of so many lame brained moves by the absolute worst owner in NFL history---this year they changed the name of the Bills home field from Ralph Wilson stadium to New Era Stadium---interestingly the Bills have now won 4 straight games going into Week 7 (2016)---I bet getting the name change has helped remove the last vestige of that moron's influence and hence the team is improving
Yes, I realize that Ralph Wilson was behind the bad decision to start Johnson. However, I still blame Wade Philips for publicly overpraising Johnson while not doing the same for Flutie when he was winning games. Whether he intended it or not, he gave fans the impression that he did not have confidence in Flutie.
But I always figured that if they'd won that game, Rob would go back to normal and play stupidly in the next game, prompting Wade Philips to bench him right quick and put Flutie back in where he belonged. It wouldn't even have to be really BAD stupid play; just something that he could use as an excuse to get Flutie back in. That "Music City Massacre" physically hurts Every. Single. Time. I remember it. Doug just MIGHT have had a chance to play for a ring.
Both are great... Brees was a rookie under Flutie in San Diego.. Flutie was Robbed by Buffalo
1:46
"Doug Flutie, even though he's four foot seven"
What?!
Bully's live among us.
Everywhere.
Every age.
Jeff Fraley the announcer is Ted Leitner and if you know his style of broadcasting he was taking a dig at the critics of Fluties size. I have been listening to him do games for over forty years and he is very good at his job.
I have so much respect for this guy. Besides being great he really is a good person.
One of my favorite Flutie plays was when Belichick brought him out for a drop-kick extra point in the last game of the season against the Dolphins. Of course Flutie nailed it.
Flutie's last game.
In 1986, there was a Monday Night Football game in which Chicago Bears quarterbacks Jim McMahon and Doug Flutie were shown drop kicking before the game. The announcers said that they were the only 2 players who knew how to dropkick and that it hadn't been done in a game in decades. For the next 20 years after that, I would often check the sports section of the newspaper to see if Flutie had done a dropkick that week. When he signed with the Patriots, many fans knew that Belichick was a historian of football and he might give Flutie a chance to do it. Seeing him actually do it was one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE PLAYS because I had waited for so long. FYI. I have a photo of Flutie's dropkick on my wall.
@Spartacus That is very interesting. I have a hard time picturing McMahon doing it, even though he was as crazy as they come. That is why I love Belichick so much; in addition to being a great planner and game coach, he appreciates the history of it at the same time.
yeah hes cool because he will give certain players a chance that others wont. and bring in old guys that can be teachers and mentors to younger guys and pass on knowledge. he brought in tebow, moss and the old qbs testaverde and flutie
Pedro Martinez z. C. I.
Mr. Flutie if you're reading this, please know that without you & your character, your Heart, to serve me personally as an example to never EVER quit, I'd never would've graduated from Law School. I was similar to you as well. I was always the smaller player, & in High School I was the starting QB, & got my team to the playoff twice. My University Studies were to important for me to even consider being a walk -on. You're my man Mr. Flutie.
Santiago MURILLO Gay
Pretty pathetic. You must be a horrible attorney.
Too important to consider being a walk on? No you just weren’t good enough and didn’t love football enough. You’re a fake man.
your a piece of trash
@@kingslayer6406 No, he isn't. Hating on another man will only increase the hate in your life.
Doug is such a high energy guy. But very down to earth & very friendly/humble. That's what probably makes him so likeable!
I can relate with Doug. Always having to prove yourself. A great player makes majic on the feild. Thats Doug Flutie
Rob Johnson was terrible.....Bills deserved to lose that playoff game to the Titans after starting Johnson instead of Flutie...And lived in Buffalo most of my life!
The Bills didn't deserve to lose....their moronic demented owner Ralph Wilson deserved to lose-as he was always a loser
Love this guy and I always will. To me he was the best one we have ever had. Even got my box of Flutie Flakes. NOT OPENED
Saw flutie at a Home Depot in Henrietta NY on birthday as a kid. He autographed some flutie flakes and my jersey. I loved watching him play as a young kid and I’ll never forget how nice he was to me. Standup guy and a legend imo.
Buffalo x Rochester All Day
One of the worst day of my life time.... !!! Why..? That's why the people with suits should be past players who will understand the game better.
Thanks Doug you make us proud to be BILLS*
No… this is why people with suits should STFU, and let the coaches coach.
Undefeated Jacksonville Jaguars,that sentence will never be said again
You obviously don't know what you're saying. I'm not even a Jacksonville fan and I'll recognize that they're a team on the rise. Sure to be a playoff contender this year.
They've had 5 consecutive losing seasons and haven't had a winning season in 9 years. With the Texans and Colts leading the division, the Jags are far from "sure playoff contenders." They may be on the rise, but there is a long ladder to climb to get up there from the bottom, especially since they are just doing what they've been doing. Give them a few more seasons.
+ilyearer they do have many talented young players, they have a shot in seasons to come when they become more experienced but I'm saying that they won't go undefeated sadly they never been to the super bowl.
maybe for like 1 week lol
+Jesus Torres I remember they use to beat Broncos often in the playoffs.
The ending gives me goosebumps. Just imagine how differently the game would have ended if Ralph Wilson let Doug Flutie play
If Rob almost won the game that tells me that Doug would’ve won it comfortably
I was watching Flutie when he played for the Calgary Stampede of the CFL back in the mid '90's.
I still have my Flutie jersey. Man it was awesome watching him play. Props to the Patriots and Belichick for allowing Flutie set a new record in his last game.
5:27 I remember when the Bills made that announcement. It made no sense under the circumstances. They blew it! When you have magic in the bottle like they did with Flutie, you have to keep going with it...
As a titans fan flutie would've won that game
One of my all time favorite qb stories
Flutie CFL highlights are amazing.
Flutie was the last Bills quarterback that was decent. The biggest slap in the face to Flutie was starting Johnson over Doug. If they hadn't it might of been the Bills and the Rams in the Super Bowl.
The bills should believe in tyrod Taylor
Fitzpatrick was decent as well. Tyrod needs to do well because that franchise has suffered the last decade and a half.
Fitz was...acceptable. Just as hes always been. Fitz will never win a game for you, but hes pretty good about not losing them either. After Flutie, the Bills managed to squeeze 2 good years out of Bledsoe and that was the end of the Bills and QBs
Yeah can't forget about Bledsoe.
Fitzpatrick is not "decent"--The Jets are now finding out what the Bills learned a few years ago-Fitzpatrick might be an average backup QB but he is not a starter---the Jets are now 1-5 this year (the game he played against KC earlier this year where he threw 6 INT-was the worst game I've seen since Sanchez was in NY)-in addition Chan Gailey is also useless--he was literally run out of town when he coached in Buffalo-16-32 W-L record when he coached
they said 4"7 haha he was 5"10
I was confused by that too.
The person was being a smart ass. Official listings are wrong a lot but if he is 5'10" that's slightly above the average height for a man.
+Dontdoittoyoself really I thought it was 6 foot?
cardinalsrule 345 no the average height 4 White man is 5 foot 10. For other ethnicities it can range differently but foremost is 5 foot 6. Being 6 feet is being considered tall Cultural standards.
+Damon Brown (#BillsMafia) dang
Hey I met him 3 weeks ago
The owner (Larry Ryckman, later controversy, but really nice TO ME!!!!!) of the Calgary Stampeders, while visiting OUR B.C. Lions, Doug had boarded the Calgary Stampeders team bus waiting to leave B.C. Place outside the corridor where I was, and the owner came towards our fans (Including me!!!), and I had my, The Magic Flutie Sports Illustrated that I REALLY wanted to be signed, and I thought, what an awesome, but IMPOSSIBLE(???) opportunity to get it signed (I'm not a professional autograph seeker...), well, the owner, Larry Rykman came toward us and talked a bit, and I told him how much I admired Doug and showed him my magazine, and he took my magazine, went to the team bus, got Doug to sign it and brought it back to me!!!!!!!!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ryckman
That time I was living in Calgary Canada. We were always waiting for Sunday NFL to see Flutie. We couldn't believe what Buffalo did to him against Titans. It was very sad and it will be forever.
Rob Johnson was fool's gold
Doug Flutie: Yeah, you had to dig for it, but Flutie was the diamond underground.
Love Mr. Doug Flutie. He's proof that no one can ever measure the Heart of a Man....
He is a miracle man Dan..... I Believe!!! Flutie magic a its finest!
So much respect for how mature Doug Flutie is.
Good job Ralph Wilson, good job...
Wade Phillips washed out in buffalo and Dallas because of stupid decisions like that
It seems like it was the owner's decision to start Johnson over Flutie.
But its the HCs job to manage the roster. And if he said no, and he went out and won anyway, RWJ would have forgotten about it and moved on. Phillips buckled under pressure when he could have put his name on the line for his players
JKSSubstandard What if he had lost with Flutie? He would have been fired and most likely never given a second chance once it came out that he went against his owner's wishes.
Thats the risk you take. The point is, as a coach, as the guy in charge of the roster, if you think Flutie is the better player (and he was the starter all year) then you have to put your foot down, put your name on the line and do what you believe will get you the win. Instead, he buckled to pressure, made a bad decision and it cost the team a playoff win
JKSSubstandard I agree, but it is easier said than done.
Could you imagine Flutie vs Warner in the Superbowl that year??? Talk about the two Ultimate Underdogs.
This guy was great to watch and was an inspiration as a kid.
Eric Moulds...man I COMPLETELY forgot about him!. Underrated receiver!
It hurts to take the keys away from your grandparent when they become a liability to drive. Somebody should have done Ralph Wilson the same courtesy. Didn't see any return on their investment on Rob FreakinJohnson?! Way to pull that string during the playoffs. This still makes me sick.
lol
7:07 "You known in hindsight, Doug probably would have won the game. You know." NO you HAD foresight, just didn't use it. smh
As much of a Flutie fan I am, can we at least admit how iconic that Tennessee radio call was?
You don't swap qb's in the playoffs, under any circumstances, but you definitely don't do it if you're swapping the guy who got you 10 wins for the guy who got you one, in a meaningless week 17 game. Terrible decision any way you look at it. What's funny too is that everyone knew it was a horrible decision at the time! If you watch the broadcast of the game that the nfl posted on their youtube channel, the commentators and the sideline reporter spend the whole game talking about how baffled they are about Johnson starting. Everyone knew then it was stupid, just as much as everyone knows now. How on earth did the Bills brass think this was a good idea??
TheDude4077 ... It was clearly a $$ issue. Rich owners worried about their money & not the team's success. The 1972' Miami Dolphins started Bob Griese in the first 5 games of the season & were 5-0 when Griese got injured. They put in back-up Errol Morral & he went 9-0 the rest of the season. Griese was fully recovered by the time the playoffs rolled around & they switched back to Griese for the Super Bowl. That's the only time I can think of where a team switched to a QB that was injured/out/benched most of the season & it worked out for them!!
Starting Rob Johnson was one of the Worst decisions in NFL history, Flutie would've won that game and probably take them to SB in a struggling AFC conference
Only surpassed by starting Nathan Peterman
Talk about a chain reaction.
I've hung out with Doug and his brother Darren Flutie at Matterhorn in Stowe, Vermont. His brother Darren has (had?) a band and Doug was (still is?) the drummer. Doug is a super nice guy. Really.
Flutie was inspirational for me growing up. I can relate to him and his height. If the bills would have supported they would have had a good chance on a super bowl run. They had an excellent team both offense and defense. The bills were hot that year and I'm a patent fan and I was rooting for flutie
That flutlie play was seriously the best play I’ve ever seen
"Undefeated Jaguars" Long Time ago
And where is Rob Johnson now? Flutie has renown on CZcams and is a legend because of his heart.
Flutie was awesome, great in college, became the greatest QB in CFL history (by far), and became a Pro Bowl QB.
The NFL being so obsessed with size costed them someone who could've become one of their all time great QB's, he was that good.
The Bret Hart screw job was nothing compared to this
Except that wrestling is make believe and this was real life.
Can not disagree with that analogy.
Looks like Doug Flutie was Russell Wilson before Russell Wilson!!!!
It was suppose to be Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl vs St. Louis Rams & The Bills when the Super Bowl with Doug Flutie as the M.V.P. 😀😀😀😀😀
Yeah and Seattle did it right because they invested a lot of money in Matt Flynn before they drafted Wilson and decided to start Wilson.
I say the same thing with me and batman @EveryChevyChase
Watching this is like watching American films on WWII. It’s like Canada didn’t exist. Flutie played stellar play in Vancouver and was highly respected and appreciated in Canada winning Grey Cups.
"In Hind Sight .. Doug Prob would've won the game..." ya think ???? Wade Philips absolutely loved watching him fail in Dallas, worth every minute of it...
There's a reason why Wade is called the "lovable moron". He did it in Denver, Buffalo, Dallas, and the only reason he looked good this past year was that he had Jack Del Rio's defense handed to him.
Jack Del Rio is a moron who wasted 2014 Denver defense on playing prevent shit instead of bringing pressure all the time. I'm still pissed at him for assigning Talib on Hilton in that playoff game against the Colts
Wade is a good defensive coordinator but not a good headcoach.
The only things that stopped him were coaches LMAO
I was like 13 years old and Growing up a niners fan, I remember I was cheering for Doug Flutie, one of the nicest guys and such a hard working dude. Because of his size they screwed him and Bills, got what they deserved. He was so hot that, I’m sure they Tennessee miracle never happens. Rob Johnson
Only time I’ve ever been a football fan in my life. Lived in Cheektowaga Fall of 1998 and when Flutie took the helm, I tuned in. He was different, he was unpredictable and he was exciting. I remember buying boxes of Flutie Flakes at Wegman’s and selling them all over New England. It was a good gig!
Still can't believe they did that to Flutie, benching him in favour of a 6'4 pretty boy with no pedigree and no grit.
Rob goes down.
Doug: "Hold my Flutie Flakes."
Success couldn't happen to a greater, a more humble guy either
No doubt. He comes to my job sometimes he's a genuine and very kind and cool guy.
I always supported our Bruins, Pats, Celts, and Sox and never had a second team. It was Boston or nothing. But when Flutie was playing for the Bills ...I have to admit I was pulling for them.