Pikemen
Tobias Gravelle is 41 and averaging 17.0 a week. He reads Normal, which makes the mileage harder to explain, not easier. It ends for all of them. Not this year.
Across thirteen seasons: 9,014 yards from scrimmage, 114 touchdowns, 204 games. He got to 1,055 once. Not this time. He has done it in seven buildings.
He is forty-one, out of Cork, Ireland. Ask anybody: he is popular in a way that does not show up anywhere useful. Nobody planned any of it. He was an academic transfer who arrived at Marchbanks to study engineering.
Pikemen, 5-6, and twelve weeks gone. Ambrose Winterbottom is in year three of it. There is one year left on the deal.
He has worn the same undershirt since his rookie year and had it repaired twice, and always has.