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Roughnecks · week 7 · 1995

The long way round: J. Kowalczyk goes for 163

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Roughnecks

There is a version of J. Kowalczyk's life where none of this happens. He was rugby until he was nineteen, and he tackles like it. Instead: 163 yards. He has a rule about not reading anything written about him, which he breaks, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It is a long way from Coalport, Alabama, and he did not come the easy way.

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