Gridiron.

Grackles · week 2 · 1996

178 yards, and a road nobody would recommend

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Pierce Harkless RB
Grackles

P. Harkless was a late bloomer who did not start a game until he was a college senior. Every one of those is a scout who kept his job anyway. He keeps his father's work gloves in his locker, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. The ones who arrive like this tend to know what it cost. That is usually worth something in December.

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