Gridiron.

The Porterhouse · week 9 · 1987

The long way round: S. Crenshaw Jr. goes for 166

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

The Porterhouse

S. Crenshaw Jr. was cut twice before his twenty-fourth birthday, and this club found him. 166 yards. Remember who was looking. He answers every question in exactly one sentence, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It counts the same as anybody else's.

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