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Copperheads · week 17 · 1996

C. Thunderpaw to Gideon Vickery, again

Dez Cruikshank, team beat

Gideon Vickery WR
Copperheads

C. Thunderpaw found Gideon Vickery 2 times. That is 22 together, and nobody in this league has anything better. They have played 16 games together this season alone. It is the simplest thing this offence does and the hardest to stop.

He has 8,898 yards from scrimmage in nine seasons, and sixty-six touchdowns. There was a 1,405-yard year in there. This is not it. Three clubs have had him.

Memphis, Tennessee is where he is from. He is thirty-one. He keeps his own counsel and his own hours. He was drafted late, on the strength of one game nobody else watched.

Copperheads, 7-9, and seventeen weeks gone. Beau Passwater is new. He is out of contract after this.

Vickery has a rule about not reading anything written about him, which he breaks.

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