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Nightshift · week 8 · 1992

Nightshift lose Emmett Fumblewick to a broken leg

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Emmett Fumblewick WR
Nightshift

Emmett Fumblewick will miss the rest of the season with a broken leg. It is the second broken leg of his career.

Across ten seasons: 4,183 yards from scrimmage, twenty-eight touchdowns, 119 games. He got to 904 once. Not this time. He has done it in two buildings.

He is thirty, out of Cleveland, Ohio. Ask anybody: he would rather be almost anywhere else on a Tuesday. The route here: found at a regional combine by a scout whose flight had been cancelled. In another life he played the trombone well enough to be offered a scholarship for it.

Nightshift, 4-3, and eight weeks gone. Meatball Speight is in year seven of it. There is one year left on the deal.

Fumblewick will not step on the painted logo at midfield.

This feature ran in the paper in week 8 of 1992. The rest of the season is there too.

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