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Nightshift · week 8 · 1998

T. Larue and Chowder Waddle do the only thing they do

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Chowder Waddle TE
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T. Larue TO Chowder Waddle. AGAIN. That is 61 of them now. They have played 7 games together this season alone. It is the simplest thing this offence does and the hardest to stop.

8,189 yards over nine seasons. Sixty-one touchdowns. 153 games. There was a 1,287-yard year in there. This is not it.

He turned thirty this year. He is from New Antwerp, Wisconsin. He keeps his own counsel and his own hours. The route here: a first-round pick out of Halloway State, and everybody saw it coming.

Nightshift are 4-3 through eight weeks. Meatball Speight is in year thirteen of it. There is one year left on the deal.

One more thing: he learned to cook properly during a rehab year and now does it for the offensive line.

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