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Smelters · Wild Card · 1978

The sixth seed puts out The Toboggans

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Smelters

Seeds are a way of guessing, and this is what guessing looks like: 30-26. The Smelters were the sixth seed and spent the whole week being told what was about to happen to them. It went to the last possession, which is the only way this was ever going to go.

This story ran on the wire in Wild Card of 1978. The rest of the season is in the paper.

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