The Fighting Ostriches
Carter Mancini: 94 yards. He was a track man who was talked into it by a coach who never let go, which the record will now have to accommodate. Out of Sawtooth Junior, which sends one of these to the league about once a decade. It counts the same as anybody else's.
The ledger, after eighteen seasons: 26,634 yards, 439 scores. His best was 2,468. This is not that, yet. For six clubs.
He is forty, out of Miami, Florida. Around the building he is the first man in the building most mornings.
The Fighting Ostriches, 5-7, and thirteen weeks gone. Rico Norwood is in year seventeen of it. There is one year left on the deal.
Mancini carries a chess set on the road and beats everyone.