Early Years
Flutie was born in Baltimore, Maryland to Dick and Joan Flutie. His grandfather was the son of a Lebanese immigrant. His family moved to Melbourne Beach, Florida when he was 6, where his father, Richard, worked as an engineer in the aerospace industry. During which Doug Flutie led Johnson Middle School's football team to two Brevard County Championships. After the dramatic slow-down of the space program in the mid-1970s, the Flutie family again moved in 1976 to Natick, Massachusetts.
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