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The Custodians · week 12 · 1977

The long way round: R. Passwater goes for 160

Wendell Sowerbutts, notebook

Roman Passwater QB
The Custodians

R. Passwater: 160 yards. He was the younger brother of a player nobody in this league remembers, which the record will now have to accommodate. He calls his grandmother before every game and after every loss, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It counts the same as anybody else's.

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