He scrambles backwards toward the goal line. Staring straight into a 30-mile-per-hour wind, and with Miami’s Willie Lee Broughton heading straight for him, Flutie heaves a bomb from his own 37, a bomb that sails … and sails … 60 yards through the evening sky.Īs the pass sails through the wet evening air, Miami’s Fullington tries to cover. All- American lineman Jerome Brown chases Flutie out of the pocket. Flutie takes the snap and darts backward. If the primary receiver, Gerry Phelan, is unable to catch it, he is supposed to tip it to the other 2 receivers. Trailing 45-41 with just a few seconds to go and the ball resting near midfield, Flutie calls a “Flood Tip,” a play that has 3 receivers racing down the sideline and flooding one area of the field awaiting Flutie’s “Hail Mary” to fall from the heavens. The most notable happened in November of 1984 in a game between The University of Miami, quaterbacked by Bernie Kosar, and Boston College, quaterbacked by Doug Flutie. I’ve seen it a few times and most of the time it doesn’t work, but when it does, it’s legendary. Doug Flutie throws a desperation "Hail Mary" pass in a game between Boston College and the University of Miami on November 23, 1984.There is one play in football that has an overtly religious name.
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