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Copperheads · week 5 · 1978

Franklin Curdle III beats the Ironmen to it

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Franklin Curdle III QB
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Franklin Curdle III went for 192 against the Ironmen AND THEY LET HIM LEAVE. Two of them found the end zone. The fixture comes round again next year.

He has 4,352 yards from scrimmage in two seasons, and seventy-one touchdowns. He has done it in two buildings.

He is twenty-four, out of Oakland, California. Ask anybody: he is the first man in the building most mornings. He was drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched. He worked nights at a rendering plant to pay for a truck he never bought, once.

The club is 4-1. Reuben Bostick is new.

Collects vinyl and is insufferable about it.

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