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Timberjacks · week 18 · 1996

Tiny Neely returns diminished

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Tiny Neely RB
Timberjacks

Tiny Neely did everything right in the rehab. He is 24.6, it was an MCL, and some of it is not coming back. He lost 6.7 points of ability and will not get them back.

The ledger, after two seasons: 1,098 yards, fourteen scores. He has never had a year like it. Two of those shirts belong to somebody else now.

He is twenty-five, out of Reykjavik, Iceland. Around the building he runs hot, and everybody has decided to live with 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.

Timberjacks are 9-8 through eighteen weeks. Bo Popplewell is new.

Never takes his helmet off between series.

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