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Ivan Rowntree is from Kestrel, Montana. He was drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched. He is now the best story on this team. Out of Sawtooth Junior, which sends one of these to the league about once a decade. It counts the same as anybody else's.
The ledger, after eight seasons: 13,964 yards, 232 scores. His best was 2,108. This is not that, yet.
He is thirty. Ask anybody: he says almost nothing and is listened to anyway.
The club is 6-3. Barney Grit is new. He is out of contract after this.
One more thing: he refuses to be taped by anybody but the same assistant trainer.