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Roughnecks · week 3 · 1997

The Boarhounds get a good look at Rhett Waddle

Gus Pemberton, sources say

Rhett Waddle QB
Roughnecks

People inside that building will tell you the decision on Rhett Waddle was not unanimous. 108 yards will not settle it either way. Two of them found the end zone. The fixture comes round again next year.

He has 34,878 yards from scrimmage in sixteen seasons, and 537 touchdowns. There was a 2,915-yard year in there. This is not it. For five clubs.

He is thirty-seven, out of Sable, North Dakota. Ask anybody: he would rather be almost anywhere else on a Tuesday. The route here: the younger brother of a player nobody in this league remembers. He fixed diesel engines with his uncle, once.

Roughnecks are 2-1 through three weeks. Isaiah Ulmer is in year eight of it. He is out of contract after this.

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

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