Gridiron.

Quarrymen · week 5 · 1988

one game out, 19.7 points in

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Oscar Ratliff QB
Quarrymen

Oscar Ratliff returned from a hamstring and put up 19.7 points.

He has 14,265 yards from scrimmage in ten seasons, and 179 touchdowns. His best was 3,132. This is not that, yet. He has done it in two buildings.

He turned thirty-one this year. He is from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Around the building he says almost nothing and is listened to anyway. He was the highest-rated recruit his state had produced in a decade.

Quarrymen are 3-2 through five weeks. Yusuf Larue is in year eleven of it.

One more thing: he never takes his helmet off between series.

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