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Grackles · week 15 · 1988

The oldest trick this offence has

Ines Okonkwo, numbers desk

Ferrell Cabrera WR
Grackles

N. Passwater threw 3 touchdowns to Ferrell Cabrera, who has now caught 33 from him. They have played 14 games together this season alone. It is the simplest thing this offence does and the hardest to stop.

The ledger, after three seasons: 3,513 yards, thirty-three scores. He has never had a year like it.

He turned twenty-four this year. He is from Salt Fork, Oklahoma. Ask anybody: he is the first man in the building most mornings. Nobody planned any of it. He was drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched.

The club is 7-7. Simeon Pruitt is in year two of it.

Cabrera has never once been photographed smiling on a sideline.

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