"Pump it and look for it," receivers coach Darren Flutie says as others look on, nodding. But inside the training facility just off the field, inside the squat, cinder block building, his father and the other coaches are drawing up plays for Troy to execute. The late autumn sun gives an auburn glow to the hair curling from his helmet. At six feet tall, he’s already three inches taller than his famous uncle. "There’s also pressure that people are saying I’m a Flutie and I’m only playing 'cause I’m a Flutie." "There’s pressure that I have to live up to my uncle and my dad," says 15-year-old Troy. The Thanksgiving game against Framingham goes back more than 100 years, but the shadow of history falls even more squarely on one player. On Thanksgiving Day, Natick plays its last game of the year against big rival Framingham.Įarlier this week, Natick High players in red jerseys and white helmets ran through one of their last practices of the season, as shadows stretched across the field. And Thursday the latest chapter in the Flutie football story will be written. And the sophomore is quarterbacking the same Natick High School team that Doug led before heading off to BC. That Flutie is Troy Flutie, Doug Flutie’s nephew. And he gets the first down, and he is in the end zone for a touchdown." "Flutie in the shotgun," says a Needham community access TV announcer, with decidedly less energy. This Thanksgiving, there’s another Flutie at quarterback.
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