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The Fighting Ostriches · week 15 · 1996

Beckett Morrow had this date circled, whatever he says

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Beckett Morrow QB
The Fighting Ostriches

Beckett Morrow had 151 yards against the Pikemen, who used to employ him. Two of them found the end zone. The fixture comes round again next year.

He has 35,758 yards from scrimmage in nineteen seasons, and 519 touchdowns. His best was 2,543. This is not that, yet. For five clubs.

He turned thirty-nine this year. He is from Tijuana, Mexico. Around the building he is the one the young players actually ask. Nobody planned any of it. He was the second man taken at his position out of Marchbanks.

The Fighting Ostriches are 5-9 through fifteen weeks. Rico Norwood is in year thirteen of it. He is out of contract after this.

Morrow has never once been photographed smiling on a sideline.

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