Gridiron.

Roughnecks · week 16 · 1994

Carter Mancini had this date circled, whatever he says

Wendell Sowerbutts, notebook

Carter Mancini QB
Roughnecks

Carter Mancini, formerly of the Copperheads: 98 yards. He was asked about it and said it was just another game. Two of them found the end zone. The fixture comes round again next year.

22,267 yards over twelve seasons. 363 touchdowns. 199 games. He got to 2,468 once. Not this time. For four clubs.

He is thirty-four, out of Miami, Florida. Ask anybody: he is the first man in the building most mornings. He was a track man who was talked into it by a coach who never let go.

Roughnecks, 10-5, and sixteen weeks gone. Isaiah Ulmer is in year five of it. He is out of contract after this.

Carries a chess set on the road and beats everyone.

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