EXTRA POINTS
Jill Lieber
November 17, 1986
For those who live solely by the stat sheet, reports SI's Pat Putnam, the Doug Flutie NFL show opened and flopped in Tampa: one run for minus-one yard; one pass that flew over wide-open tight end Emery Moorehead in the Buccaneer end zone; two handoffs and two pitches to running backs, which netted Chicago just 13 yards. Not much, you say, for 2� minutes' work against the worst defense in the NFL. Then why was the 5'9" Heisman Trophy winner from Boston College grinning in the locker room?
One day she solved the case of Payton's missing thigh pads. "I found in the washing machine some tiny, tiny pads with the number 34 on them," she says. "I was getting ready to throw them out, when the Bears called. You can't do that, they said. They're Walter's lucky pads—from his high school days."
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