Gridiron.

Timberjacks · week 13 · 1996

Timberjacks lose Tiny Neely to an MCL

Wendell Sowerbutts, notebook

Tiny Neely RB
Timberjacks

Tiny Neely: MCL, the rest of the season. The backup inherits the job for now.

Across two seasons: 1,098 yards from scrimmage, fourteen touchdowns, thirty games. He has never had a year like it. For two clubs.

Reykjavik, Iceland is where he is from. He is twenty-five. Ask anybody: he runs hot, and everybody has decided to live with it. Nobody planned any of it. He was the son of a man who played eleven years at the same position. Before any of it he fixed diesel engines with his uncle.

The club is 7-5. Bo Popplewell is new.

Neely never takes his helmet off between series.

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