Doug Flutie

Flutie made an indelible mark on NFL fans in 1998 when he signed with the Buffalo Bills. He announced that he was donating half of his$50,000 signing bonus to Hunter's Hope, the charity for former Bills quar-terback Jim Kelly, whose son was born with a rare, degenerative genetic en-zyme disorder. The other half would be used to establish the Douglas Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism for his then six-year-old son Dougie, who isautistic. Buffalo fans bought 125,000 boxes of Flutie Flakes, a cereal Flutiecreated to raise money for his new charity. Flutie and his wife remain activein the treatment and cure of autism through the foundation.