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Nightshift · week 13 · 1998

Terrell Larue returns the favour

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Terrell Larue QB
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Terrell Larue went for 172 against the Smelters AND THEY LET HIM LEAVE. Two of them found the end zone. The fixture comes round again next year.

7,208 yards over nine seasons. Ninety-four touchdowns. 113 games. None of the others were this good. For two clubs.

He is twenty-nine, out of Verdigris, Kansas. Ask anybody: he is the first man in the building most mornings. Nobody planned any of it. He was drafted on a medical gamble that three clubs would not take. He drove a snowplow for the county, once.

The club is 7-5. Meatball Speight is in year thirteen of it.

He has never once been photographed smiling on a sideline, and always has.

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