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Bighorns · week 12 · 1988

The long way round: Yancy Steele goes for 164

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Yancy Steele QB
Bighorns

Yancy Steele had 164 yards. He was cut twice before his twenty-fourth birthday. He never takes his helmet off between series, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It counts the same as anybody else's.

10,482 yards over seven seasons. 167 touchdowns. 112 games. He got to 2,282 once. Not this time.

He is twenty-eight, out of Chicago, Illinois. Around the building he says almost nothing and is listened to anyway.

The club is 4-7. Gideon Adeyemi is in year five of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

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