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Nov 13, 2006 9:56 pm US/Eastern

Flutie Honored For His Work Off The Field

BOSTON (CBS4) ― Doug Flutie was honored at Symphony Hall on Monday with the 2006 Red, White and Blue Award for his work with the Doug Flutie Junior Foundation for Autism.

The foundation was established in honor of Flutie's son who was diagnosed with autism at the age of three. Since 1998, the foundation has raised more than $8 million.

Flutie won the Heisman Trophy with Boston College in 1984, and went on to play professional football for 21 seasons in the NFL and CFL. He won the Canadian Football League's Most Outstanding Player award six times. He played with the Patriots twice and retired as a Patriot after the 2005 season.

He's best remembered for his 48-yard Hail Mary touchdown pass to Gerard Phelan that beat Miami as time expired in November 1984.

Flutie, who is from Natick, now works for ABC and ESPN as a college football analyst.

In previous years, Bruce Springsteen and basketball legend Oscar Robertson have been recipients of the Red, White and Blue Award.

Monday's event included with a performance by Keith Lockhart and the band Boston.

(© 2006 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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