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The Fighting Ostriches · week 8 · 1997

195 yards, and a road nobody would recommend

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Mercy Odom QB
The Fighting Ostriches

M. Odom was a late bloomer who did not start a game until he was a college senior and just put up 195 YARDS. This is the best thing that has happened all season. He is 35, and he is the first man in the building most mornings. It counts the same as anybody else's.

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