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Marauders · week 2 · 1996

Rhett Waddle returns the favour

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Rhett Waddle QB
Marauders

Rhett Waddle had 164 yards against the Prospectors, who used to employ him. He is 36 now, which was most of the argument at the time. The fixture comes round again next year.

The ledger, after fifteen seasons: 33,256 yards, 506 scores. His best was 2,915. This is not that, yet. He has done it in five buildings.

He is from Sable, North Dakota. Ask anybody: he would rather be almost anywhere else on a Tuesday. He was the younger brother of a player nobody in this league remembers. Before any of it he fixed diesel engines with his uncle.

The club is 2-0. Newt Kowalczyk is in year two of it. He is out of contract after this.

He will not step on the painted logo at midfield, and always has.

This feature ran in the paper in week 2 of 1996. The rest of the season is there too.

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