innocentbystander {l Wrote}:The 2007 season
It was the happiest moment in any of our BC football fandom lives
Irishriviera {l Wrote}:Agree that the Flutie years were better than the Ryan years. Flutie was a phenomenon in a way current BC fans cannot comprehend.
Portnoy did one of his pizza reviews with Flutie as a guest and it's obvious that Portnoy was completely star struck. Portnoy is the right age for a Boston kid to have viewed Flutie as a god. Bill Simmons has also talked about how Flutie games were MUST SEE events in those days.
claver2010 {l Wrote}:he'll be in the hall of fame
BCMurt09 {l Wrote}:claver2010 {l Wrote}:he'll be in the hall of fame
I was glad they bought that up, that he has top tier numbers but doesn't get mentioned with the Bradys, Brees, Rodgers crew. He is already in the top ten all-time, or very soon will be (#11) in every major QB category.
Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:Two things: (1) As usual, IB doesn’t know what he is talking about—this in regards to Flutie. There is no comparison between the season Flutie had in 84 and either of Ryan’s great seasons—Ryan wasn’t close to Flutie. The schedule Flutie played was harder and Flutie’s three great road wins—over a top 10 Alabama, and #11 Miami, and SWC champion Houston (who won the SWC by beating a top 5 SMU team that was probably the best team in college football that year. Ryan’s win over Va Tech was great—probably the equal of the Alabama game, his win over #21 Clemson was not in the same league as Miami and his bowl game win over Michigan State was not the equal of the Cotton Bowl win. Flutie’s two losses—to a top 20 WVU was infinitely more acceptable than the Maryland debacle and Flutie’s loss to Penn State was the same as the Florida State loss.
But aside from that, while Ryan’s last second heroics against Va Tech and Clemson were great, Flutie’s moment in Miami is one of the two or three greatest plays in college football history. Finally, 1984 BC finished 4th in the coaches poll, 5th in the AP and would have almost certainly been in the CFP if it had existed at the time. 2007 was nice—great and highly entertaining by the historical standards of the program, but not even a Top 10 finish.
(2) While Ryan has hall of fame numbers, as the author of the biggest choke in NFL Super Bowl history, unless he finally wins the big one he may have to wait a while.
hansen {l Wrote}:What would be the other 2 plays in top 3 greatest cfb plays ever?
Los {l Wrote}:hansen {l Wrote}:What would be the other 2 plays in top 3 greatest cfb plays ever?
I don’t know if these are the greatest plays, per se, but I would consider them the most iconic:
1. Flutie-Phelan
2. Vince Young races to the corner at the Rose Bowl
3. Desmond Howard’s “Hello Heisman”
twballgame9 {l Wrote}:Kordell Stewart on Ty Law is top 5.
Irishriviera {l Wrote}:Cal Stanford the band is on the field
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