Friends in High Places: Ryan Fitzpatrick, NFL quarterback
Do you believe in FitzMagic?
If you’ve played fantasy football any time over the last two decades, you might. That’s because the career journeyman always seemed capable of exploding for a 300-yard, three-touchdown game out of nowhere.
How about in 2005, coming in as a third-string quarterback for the St. Louis Rams, down 24-3 at halftime against the Houston Texans, only to win the game in overtime? Or in 2019, on a bad Miami Dolphins team, upsetting the New England Patriots on the last game of the season, tossing a touchdown on the road and costing the Patriots a first-round bye?
How about in 2005, coming in as a third-string quarterback for the St. Louis Rams, down 24-3 at halftime against the Houston Texans, only to win the game in overtime? Or in 2019, on a bad Miami Dolphins team, upsetting the New England Patriots on the last game of the season, tossing a touchdown on the road and costing the Patriots a first-round bye?
Yes, we believe in FitzMagic.
A seventh-round pick in 2005 from Harvard, Fitzpatrick started for nine different NFL teams, the most ever by a quarterback. He threw touchdowns for eight different teams, also a record. Fitzpatrick played his final season for the Washington Football Team in 2021. He finished his career with 34,990 passing yards, 223 touchdowns and 169 interceptions.
When he’s not out on the golf course, Fitzpatrick now enjoys working as an analyst on Amazon’s Thursday Night Football.
“I love the fellowship (in golf). I love just getting out on the course for four hours with the guys and gals that you’re playing with and having a relaxing time. It’s fun,” Fitzpatrick says. “The competitive nature of an athlete, after you’re retired and done, it’s fun to get out there and compete a little bit.
“You always appreciate the work that goes into maintaining a golf course, and sometimes it goes unnoticed. It’s kind of a thankless job. A course like this right now is in such beautiful shape; those guys put a lot of work into it. And I always feel bad because I take huge divots. I feel really bad — I’m trying not to take as big of divots as I usually do.”
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