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Copperheads · week 13 · 1992

Mercy Odom was not supposed to be here

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Mercy Odom QB
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Mercy Odom was a late bloomer who did not start a game until he was a college senior and just put up 152 YARDS. This is the best thing that has happened all season. Two of them found the end zone, in game 7 of his season. It counts the same as anybody else's.

The ledger, after seven seasons: 1,057 yards, thirteen scores. This is the best of them. For two clubs.

He turned thirty this year. He is from Newark, New Jersey. He is the first man in the building most mornings.

The club is 7-5. Ezra Farrow is in year two of it.

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

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