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The Custodians · week 14 · 1987

Tobias Nakamura has 110 and a story

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Tobias Nakamura QB
The Custodians

Tobias Nakamura was the son of a man who played eleven years at the same position. Every one of those is a scout who kept his job anyway. Two of them found the end zone, in game 10 of his season. The ones who arrive like this tend to know what it cost. That is usually worth something in December.

He has 9,234 yards from scrimmage in ten seasons, and 142 touchdowns. His best was 2,517. This is not that, yet. For four clubs.

Thirty-two, and Coalport, Alabama before that. Ask anybody: he says almost nothing and is listened to anyway.

The Custodians, 6-7, and fourteen weeks gone. Mateo Morrow is in year five of it.

He is the last man off the field, every week, without exception, and always has.

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