Flutie, Pats Bowl Over Cocky Bears

FOXBORO--Doug Flutie threw four touchdown passes, including an 80-yard bomb to Irving Fryar on the first play from scrimmage, to lift the New England Patriots to a 30-7 victory over Chicago yesterday at Sullivan Stadium.

The Patriots, who lost their last meeting with the Bears, 46-10, in the 1986 Super Bowl, became the first team in six games to score more than nine points against Chicago, the NFL's top defense. The Bears (7-2) had a five-game winning streak stopped in which they allowed just 32 points.

Flutie, traded to New England last season, completed 6 of 18 passes for 165 yards and no interceptions. He threw two second-quarter scoring passes to Lin Dawson and one in the fourth period to Stanley Morgan.

The New England running game, led by rookie John Stephens' 124 yards on 35 carries, collected 185 yards. Stephens was the first runner in 31 games to gain more than 100 yards against Chicago, whose top-ranked rushing defense had allowed only 66.3 yards per game.

Jim McMahon, who gave Chicago a 7-6 lead with a one-yd. dive in the first quarter, was knocked out of the game with a strained right knee early in the second quarter. Mike Tomczak and Jim Harbaugh were ineffective as his replacements.

The Patriots (4-5) had relied on the run in their two previous games but went to the air after a touchback on the opening kickoff.

Fryar outran Vestee Jackson down the left sideline and caught the ball at about the Chicago 45-yard line. He avoided a tackle near the 30 and scurried into the end zone just 18 seconds into the game. It was Fryar's longest catch of his career, as well as Flutie's longest NFL pass. New England kicker Jason Staurovsky missed the extra point.