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Turbines · week 16 · 2000

Rhett Waddle is 40 and still doing it

Ines Okonkwo, numbers desk

Rhett Waddle QB
Turbines

Rhett Waddle is 40 and averaging 15.2 a week. He reads Normal, which makes the mileage harder to explain, not easier.

38,804 yards over nineteen seasons. 625 touchdowns. 336 games. He got to 2,915 once. Not this time. Six clubs have had him.

Sable, North Dakota is where he is from. He is forty. Around the building he would rather be almost anywhere else on a Tuesday. The route here: the younger brother of a player nobody in this league remembers. Before any of it he fixed diesel engines with his uncle.

Turbines are 10-5 through sixteen weeks. Duke Gravelle is in year three of it. There is one year left on the deal.

Will not step on the painted logo at midfield.

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