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The Fighting Ostriches · week 12 · 2001

Slippery Zimmer done for the year

Ruth Fairbanks, features

Slippery Zimmer RB
The Fighting Ostriches

There is no good week for this. Slippery Zimmer gets the rest of the season on the shelf with an MCL. That is his season.

The ledger, after nine seasons: 11,790 yards, sixty-seven scores. He got to 2,127 once. Not this time. He has done it in two buildings.

Baltimore, Maryland is where he is from. He is twenty-nine. Ask anybody: he talks constantly and means about half of it. He was drafted on a medical gamble that three clubs would not take.

The club is 7-4. Rico Norwood is in year eighteen of it. He is out of contract after this.

One more thing: he answers every question in exactly one sentence.

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