Now a junior, Dorsey will still occasionally utilize a flare pass to his running backs, though he is more apt to be picking apart secondaries.
Then Banks intercepted Hugh Millen's flare pass and returned it 15 yards for the deciding touchdown.
He opened the game from his 35 with a little flare pass to the right.
But a flare pass lost 5 yards and the next three passes fell incomplete.
Two incompletions by Frerotte and a 5-yard loss on a flare pass to Brown left Miami with one last attempt.
It was a flare pass to the left, thrown short in the end zone by Lucas.
It finally came when rookie tight end Troy Drayton turned a flare pass into a touchdown against Pittsburgh.
His 29-yard flare pass to Garrison Hearst took the ball to the Washington 6 with 51 seconds left.
Or when, as happened so often in the 1980's, Roger Craig would turn a flare pass into a 15-yard gain.
McNeil lost 3 yards on a sweep, gained 7 on another run and then caught a flare pass but slipped just short of the first down.