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Sentinels · week 12 · 1990

D. Farrow and Tayshaun Upshot do the only thing they do

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Tayshaun Upshot WR
Sentinels

D. Farrow threw 2 touchdowns to Tayshaun Upshot, who has now caught 55 from him. They have played 11 games together this season alone. It is the simplest thing this offence does and the hardest to stop.

The ledger, after eleven seasons: 16,856 yards, seventy-one scores. He got to 2,125 once. Not this time. Two of those shirts belong to somebody else now.

Thirty-three, and Auckland, New Zealand before that. Ask anybody: he is unfailingly polite and completely unknowable. Nobody planned any of it. He was drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched.

Sentinels, 7-4, and twelve weeks gone. Duke Gravelle is in year five of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

He reads on the team plane, actual books, which his teammates find hilarious, and always has.

This feature ran in the paper in week 12 of 1990. The rest of the season is there too.

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