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Cannoneers · week 5 · 1989

The long way round: R. Passwater goes for 183

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Roman Passwater QB
Cannoneers

I have been doing this long enough to have written off men like R. Passwater, who was the younger brother of a player nobody in this league remembers. 183 yards is the league's way of saying nothing is settled. He calls his grandmother before every game and after every loss, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It counts the same as anybody else's.

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