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The Toboggans · week 2 · 1998

Slippery Zimmer has 168 and a story

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Slippery Zimmer RB
The Toboggans

Slippery Zimmer was drafted on a medical gamble that three clubs would not take. Every one of those is a scout who kept his job anyway. He answers every question in exactly one sentence, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It counts the same as anybody else's.

Across six seasons: 7,192 yards from scrimmage, forty-one touchdowns, 104 games. He got to 2,127 once. Not this time.

He turned twenty-six this year. He is from Baltimore, Maryland. Ask anybody: he talks constantly and means about half of it.

The club is 1-1. Garrett Mabry is in year five of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

This feature ran in the paper in week 2 of 1998. The rest of the season is there too.

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