RAMBLIN' WRECK FLUTIE

We love our video games, and NCAA '13 is on our buy list for the year. This year's new feature: the ability to pick up any former Heisman player and drop him into your dynasty team. Like so:

Where it gets interesting is dropping them into other squads:

Two important questions:

• How many games would Spaz win this season with a 22-year-old Flutie?
• How many games would Spaz win this season with a 49-year-old Flutie?

I still put the over/under at 6.

NAMING THE ICE, THE COURT AND THE FIELD

Dan Levy over at B/R just posted some great thoughts on the pinnacle of honors in the sports world: namely, getting a playing surface to bear your name. With Dicky V getting the nod for the University of Detroit basketball floor, Levy shows that he's much better at Photoshop than we are, but it also got us thinking about the honors for the different venues at BC's campus.

Don't forget that the hockey and basketball team, while they play in the same building, do technically have different venues. The building is named for Silvio O. Conte, BC Double Eagle and US Senator, but the hockey rink itself is named for the legendary coach John "Snooks" Kelley, who led the Eagles to a 1949 Ice Hockey championship, five of the first 10 Beanpots and hundreds of wins over his 35 year career on the Heights. Perhaps the only argument with the honor: where do you put BC's other legendary hockey coach's name when he finally hangs up the clipboard*. Jerry York Ice at Kelley Rink?

*Jerry: please don't go anywhere. Jerry Wan Kenobi, Help Us, You Are Our Only Hope


To this date, I see no case, whatsoever, for a court-naming at BC. If I talk about Skinner, I'll punch myself for even thinking it (that national coach of the year award is a long, distant and fading memory of luck that completely was undone in the last few years when he gave up). We're not touching Jim O'Brien with a 15-foot pole. Bob Cousy wasn't around long enough (117-38 in six years) and no one would primarily associate him with the Eagles. Steve Donahue: you have an open window here. Just hang around for a decade or two more, maybe get into a few Final Fours and win the ACC half a dozen times. Then we'll talk. Not a moment before.

Which brings us to the most obvious argument ever.

If GDF needs one more Hail Mary to distract everything he's bungled over the last few years, I would in no way, shape or form be surprised if he chose to take a specific route.

Flutie Field at Alumni Stadium. It's going to happen.

Flutie hasn't seen the field since last playing with the Patriots in 2005, and while he did some time with ESPN, it's much more likely to see him in the Plex playing pick-up these days. We are now a little less than three years away from the 30th anniversary of November 23, 1984 and the anniversary of Flutie's Heisman winning season. Flutie will be 52. It'll be the right time.

HAPPY DOUG FLUTIE DAY!

I always love when the High Holy Day of Boston College coincides directly with a Miami game. The last time it happened was 2007, when Matt Ryan's ACC-Championship bound Eagles dispatched of the Hurricanes for the first time since that fateful day in the Orange Bowl. 27 years later we recognize this holiday with a ritual "playing of the Musburger"

Today we recognize the feats of one Douglas Richard Flutie and that fateful day.

Happy Doug Flutie Day, friends and Eagles. 

HAPPY: BRENT MUSBURGER CHANNELS NOVEMBER 1984 ENDING

There's a fairly healthy list of contributors to the media world who carry a connection to Chestnut Hill - and not all of them are involved in sports. The legend of Chris O'Donnell, breakout star Amy Poehler and even on MSNBC you can find guys like Luke Russert. Perhaps on the back of this, it seems that BC has had a pretty decent run over the past years as fodder for pop culture. A few seasons back, it was a the backdrop of college tours on Friday Night Lights, even further back, the school was where Freddie Prinze, Jr. ditched before hitting the Cape Cod summer league.

Within the span of the last 48 hours, or so, BC has made glorious appearances in two shows. The first mention, from Daily Show contributor John Hodgman on Tuesday, was a bit of a farcical gesture but slight backhanded praise. The much, much more amazing one: last night on ABC's sophomore sitcom, Happy Endings, guest star Brent Musburger channeled his iconic 1984 play-by-play of a certain moment of Boston College sports folklore - offering The Hail Mary (and of course, Miami's soft defense) as a metaphor for relationships.



Caught by Boston College, I don't believe it.

Let's hope we're adding one more to the history of Happy Endings tonight against Florida State.