The Porterhouse
Rocket Spiralman was drafted on a medical gamble that three clubs would not take. On this afternoon he had 125 yards, and in Cattaraugus Falls, New York they will have seen it. He is 35, and he is unfailingly polite and completely unknowable. It is a long way from Cattaraugus Falls, New York, and he did not come the easy way.
17,060 yards over eleven seasons. 246 touchdowns. 165 games. There was a 2,077-yard year in there. This is not it. He has done it in three buildings.
The Porterhouse, 7-8, and sixteen weeks gone. Cormac Bombardo is in year thirteen of it. The contract runs out in the spring.
He calls his grandmother before every game and after every loss, and always has.