He made the Pro Bowl in 1998 and won Comeback Player of the Year after winning 8-of-11 starts and leading the Bills to the playoffs. Flutie said that playing in Buffalo was a big step in his career after playing in the CFL for eight years.<\/p>\n
“It was my second shot at the NFL, and validated all the things I believed that I could do,” Flutie said. “In my career it was a very important year when I first came back. It wasn’t just a stop, it was, it was a big, big part of my NFL career\u2026 And then emotionally, the way the fans reacted, with the Flutie flakes and everything else, and selling, I don’t know how many millions of boxes to raise the money for the foundation.”<\/p>\n
Since retiring Flutie has been heavily involved with his foundation: The Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism. He had the idea after speaking with Jim Kelly and he wanted to do something in his son’s name who was diagnosed with autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He made the Pro Bowl in 1998 and won Comeback Player of the Year after winning 8-of-11 starts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,31716,7,37364,6,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-216324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-alumni-legends","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-legend-of-the-game","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-san-francisco","14":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114873202497603879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}