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Roughnecks · week 7 · 1998

Rhett Waddle is 38 and still doing it

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Rhett Waddle QB
Roughnecks

Rhett Waddle is 38 and averaging 14.8 a week. He reads Normal, which makes the mileage harder to explain, not easier.

35,972 yards over seventeen seasons. 563 touchdowns. 302 games. He got to 2,915 once. Not this time. He has done it in five buildings.

He turned thirty-eight this year. He is from Sable, North Dakota. Around the building he would rather be almost anywhere else on a Tuesday. He was the younger brother of a player nobody in this league remembers. He fixed diesel engines with his uncle, once.

The club is 4-2. Isaiah Ulmer is in year nine of it. There is one year left on the deal.

Will not step on the painted logo at midfield.

This feature ran in the paper in week 7 of 1998. The rest of the season is there too.

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