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The Fighting Ostriches · week 15 · 1987

Klaus Zimmer had this date circled, whatever he says

Wendell Sowerbutts, notebook

Klaus Zimmer TE
The Fighting Ostriches

Klaus Zimmer had 122 yards against the Pikemen, who used to employ him. He keeps his own counsel and his own hours, so nobody expects him to say much about it. The fixture comes round again next year.

He has 8,244 yards from scrimmage in eleven seasons, and eighty-three touchdowns. There was a 1,482-yard year in there. This is not it. For four clubs.

He is thirty-three, out of Lagos, Nigeria. He was drafted on a medical gamble that three clubs would not take.

The club is 8-6. Rico Norwood is in year four of it. He is out of contract after this.

He eats the same breakfast every game day and will not discuss it, and always has.

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